Prismatic Reptiles

Prismatic Reptiles Find top quality, great customer service and worldwide shipping. I am a hobby breeder driven completely by my passion for keeping only the animals I love most.

I founded Prismatic Reptiles in 2013, and I breed and sell our favorite reptile species including Mexicana and Montane kingsnakes, corn snakes, rat snakes, and ball pythons. My full-blown obsession has taken me to the point that I have one of the largest colubrid collections in the country. I only work with animals that interest me and make me say, "I couldn't live without that!". I have been fasc

inated with reptiles since I was a kid and I fearlessly caught reptiles throughout my childhood. When I got a little older I lost sight of that interest for a while, but in 2012 I took a trip to Las Vegas and did some herping on the way there. I spent two hours chasing a leopard lizard that I never ended up catching and I was hooked from there. As soon as I got home I looked on kingsnake.com classifieds and bought my first pair of collared lizards. At my first reptile show in early 2013 I bought some poison dart frogs and the "one snake I would ever own", which was an apricot pueblan milk snake. By the end of the year I was keeping corn snakes, cal kings, carpet pythons, ball pythons, gray banded kingsnakes, Arizona mountain kingsnakes, Nuevo Leon kingsnakes, Mex Mex kingsnakes, Durango mountain kingsnakes, hognose snakes, collared lizards, desert horned lizards, Mexican giant horned lizards, panther chameleons and I was breeding my own rodents and insects in preparation for my first breeding season in the spring of 2014. I produced a handful of desert horned lizards, collared lizards, cal kings, corn snakes and a lone Arizona mountain kingsnake. From that first reptile I ever bred and successfully hatched, I was all in. Fast forward to today, and now breeding reptiles is my full-time job! I'm always working on acquiring everything I've dreamed of working with, and I'm absolutely in love with reptiles more than ever. From learning about natural history, husbandry techniques, and trying to do things that no one else has done, becoming a bona fide herper has been one of the best things to ever happen to me. I have been doing educational shows at schools since the beginning, and I absolutely love field herping for all reptiles, from the most common, to the incredibly rare. I specialize in Mexicana and montane kingsnakes, old world ratsnakes, corn snakes, tricolor and Western hognose snakes, collared lizards, horned lizards, and ball pythons. I enjoy keeping, breeding, observing and interacting with reptiles and amphibians so much that I have decided to produce and provide animals for the enjoyment of others. I focus on the rarer and more aesthetically beautiful animals giving us the motto of "colorful captive-bred creations". My hope is that animals from out breeding stock can be used in personal collections, schools, and zoos for education and good, old-fashioned viewing pleasure. Rarely do people from Southeastern Idaho get access to such unique and high quality animals. I also strive to provide the absolute lowest local prices for feeder rodents. A primary mission beyond selling reptiles and providing expert advice and education pertaining to their care, is to offer local customers with feeders for their animals. I provide mice and rats of all sizes. If I have limited quantities on a particular item, I am happy to work with you and satisfy your needs. I prefer to provide rodents in only $25 minimum orders.

-Joel Reep

I just posted some heat to my MorphMarket! Go check out 26 new ball pythons! The link to my MorphMarket store is in my...
01/25/2025

I just posted some heat to my MorphMarket! Go check out 26 new ball pythons! The link to my MorphMarket store is in my bio!

If I hadn’t hit a Black Pastel Hypo Puzzle this year, I could easily say that THIS was my favorite ball python of 2024. ...
01/20/2025

If I hadn’t hit a Black Pastel Hypo Puzzle this year, I could easily say that THIS was my favorite ball python of 2024. Go check out my MorphMarket - I JUST added all her clutch mates (aside from this girl and one sister) to my store. It was a struggle to narrow down my holdbacks so don’t miss out! They’re all 100% het for Clown!

This is a cool new pyro project I’m working on. The parents have this same erasure working inside the red bands which m...
01/16/2025

This is a cool new pyro project I’m working on. The parents have this same erasure working inside the red bands which makes the some of the scales yellow/white. They also have these really wild head caps. I will find out more about the mode of inheritance this coming season when I breed the dad to a couple other females, but so far it’s looking like it’ll prove genetic. I’m calling it “Cherry Blossom”.

The parents to these babies are 66% het HypoE and 50% Het Applegate, but I didn’t produce any visuals of either from the first 4 eggs. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that those genes aren’t going to be floating around this project!

Nice orange jag Leonis sporting some striping in addition to the customary jaguar speckles.
01/05/2025

Nice orange jag Leonis sporting some striping in addition to the customary jaguar speckles.

I just hatched this powerhouse female and I’m digging her! She’s Black Head Leopard Lesser Pinstripe Double Het Ultrame...
12/29/2024

I just hatched this powerhouse female and I’m digging her! She’s Black Head Leopard Lesser Pinstripe Double Het Ultramel Puzzle 50% Het Hypo. I think her blue eye shadow is pretty neat!

These guys aren’t looking real merry😂 but I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! 🎄🎅🎁. Some nice bullsnake combos will...
12/25/2024

These guys aren’t looking real merry😂 but I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! 🎄🎅🎁. Some nice bullsnake combos will be hitting MorphMarket soon!

45 minutes left on my auctions! 1.1 powerful pyros and 1.1 ADULT prime breeder ball pythons! True ghost project stuff-...
12/19/2024

45 minutes left on my auctions! 1.1 powerful pyros and 1.1 ADULT prime breeder ball pythons! True ghost project stuff- a male pastel sulfur her VPI axanthic and a female mojave het hypo!

The white snake in the foreground of the first photo developed into the snake you see in the next two pics. This clutch...
12/16/2024

The white snake in the foreground of the first photo developed into the snake you see in the next two pics. This clutch has been a mystery since day 1, but Dr. Ben Morrill is helping me to unravel it with full panels on all concerned parties. The pairing was Black Pastel Bamboo (supposedly het Hypo) X GHI Hypo. The white one could conceivably be super bamboo (+ another gene) but the only way that could have happened is parthenogenesis. One of the snakes in the clutch has already tested (the one in the background) positive for GHI but negative for Hypo. The dam (mother) has tested negative for GHI. I’m really looking forward to some answers because this all makes ZERO sense! Pretty animals though! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Blue and green baron’s racers are now up on my MorphMarket store! We’ve sent all our blue baroni overseas these few yea...
12/13/2024

Blue and green baron’s racers are now up on my MorphMarket store! We’ve sent all our blue baroni overseas these few years so I’m pleased to be able to offer some here in the US this season! My store link is in my profile! #2024

I’m a FAN of these two! Feel free to take a stab at what morphs are in play here! 😄
12/10/2024

I’m a FAN of these two! Feel free to take a stab at what morphs are in play here! 😄

Please check my MorphMarket. I have made the difficult decision to make most of my cornsnake collection available. Thi...
12/07/2024

Please check my MorphMarket. I have made the difficult decision to make most of my cornsnake collection available. This really pains me, but my family is the most important thing and I realize this is time I will never get back. I hope folks will agree, but I feel that I have made some pretty amazing animals in the corn snake world from my Pied-Sided Bloodred to Lavender and Sunkissed combo animals; not to mention my Bright line animals! Honestly the Bright line has been the most rewarding as it’s unlike anything else in the Pantherophis g. realm, but it hurts to see ANY of it go.

That’s enough of explaining myself to nobody! I still work Palmetto, scaleless, and will keep a couple goodies from the Bright project, so don’t cast me out! I’ve just got some incredible kids growing up at an incredible rate 🥲

A sharp looking pair of BHB Hypo 66% Het Amel, 50% Het Apples.
12/05/2024

A sharp looking pair of BHB Hypo 66% Het Amel, 50% Het Apples.

A couple nice Baubel line Santa Rita locale pyros. Who’s ready to start seeing some of my 2024 colubrid production? ...
12/05/2024

A couple nice Baubel line Santa Rita locale pyros. Who’s ready to start seeing some of my 2024 colubrid production?

Hey guys, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We experienced a scary family emergency, but it turned out okay and ...
12/02/2024

Hey guys, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We experienced a scary family emergency, but it turned out okay and resulted in what I would consider a real Thanksgiving miracle! I apologize to anyone who has been trying to reach me, but I’ve had to put family first this last week. We are feeling incredibly blessed!

In other news, we’ve posted some special auctions for Cyber Monday! There are 8 awesome ball pythons up on auction with no reserve. Go check them out, they end tomorrow around 7:00 pm MST! https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/all?auction=true&ordering=auction_end_time&seller=prismatic

Since the “real feel” temperature is 16 degrees right now, it’s hard to fathom that I was finding garter snakes as recen...
11/20/2024

Since the “real feel” temperature is 16 degrees right now, it’s hard to fathom that I was finding garter snakes as recently as a week ago Monday. I had been out pheasant hunting and stopped at a small fishing hole on the way home. It was 58 degrees and sunny. Just as I was standing on the steep embankment, I placed my hand on the warm dirt, thinking - there’s no reason a snake couldn’t be out basking on this. About 10 seconds later a snake slithered right past me toward the water. I picked it up and took some photos and video and let it go. I tried to keep track of where it was headed to see if I could locate the hibernacula. I lost sight of the snake in the vegetation and then thought I’d found it again. Upon closer inspection, the snake had a stub tail. You can see that the snake in this photo did not! It was a second snake! Not only did I see the first snake in November in Idaho in my lifetime, I found the second as well!

Back in 2020 I bred my male Coxi to my female Vaillanti and held back a pair to raise up. I bred those two back to one ...
11/13/2024

Back in 2020 I bred my male Coxi to my female Vaillanti and held back a pair to raise up. I bred those two back to one another and their first clutch recently hatched. I really like the look of these intergrade bamboo ratsnakes! The adults that produced these babies pictured are on my MorphMarket store and just made their second clutch of eggs! They have a long future of production ahead of them, so go check them out! https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/reptiles/colubrids/bamboo-rat-snakes/2609057

I installed new lights in the kingsnake room so I wanted to see how animals looked when photographed in there. It’s har...
11/12/2024

I installed new lights in the kingsnake room so I wanted to see how animals looked when photographed in there. It’s hard NOT to make this alterna look good. Something about his color scheme just speaks to me! 2021 het leucistic 50% het hypo gray banded kingsnake produced here.

I just posted a bunch of hypo puzzle project animals and they’re female heavy for once! I believe that hypo puzzle is o...
11/11/2024

I just posted a bunch of hypo puzzle project animals and they’re female heavy for once! I believe that hypo puzzle is one of the strongest projects in the ball python industry right now and it’s just barely getting rolling! Now is a great time to invest in some animals to make some of the most incredible living art that’s ever been made! #2024

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I think this is a good illustration of two key points! Number 1, never assume that a venomous snake is incapacitated/dead and can’t hurt you. I watched a friend take a bite from a baby rattlesnake that was literally pasted to the road from a car tire. The whole body was flattened except for about two inches of the neck and the head. He grabbed it by the tail and unstuck the snake’s body from the road to get a look at the dorsum and the completely dead snake used the last of its reflexes to strike and deliver a fang to the finger. At first, I really thought this snake might have coiled up and then died, especially when I saw the bloody face and small pool of blood in the road. Silly me! The second thing this illustrates is the hardiness of rattlesnakes and snakes in general. In spite of leaving what I now thing was more like 2 ounces of blood on the road, I’m confident that this snake survived being run over cleanly on the head! And, I suppose I should mention, that the snake did strike my tongs but you can tell it was obligatory and more of a “just leave me alone” deal. When a rattlesnake is truly afraid for its life and trying to defend itself with venom, they will often not hesitate to bite the object in question and hold onto it briefly to ensure it’s envenomated. Because I calmly and gently handled this snake, it just gave my tongs a couple love taps but I feel that it wasn’t intent on anything but escaping and being left alone. #rattlesnake #rattlesnakesofinstagram #crotalus #crotaluslutosus #westernrattlesnake #idahorattlesnake #idaho #idahome #snakesofidaho #reptiles #reptilesofinstagram #snakesofinstagram #hitbyacar #survival #survivor #damntough #fieldherping #roadcruising #herpetoculture #herpetology #venomous #injured #justfine

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This is one of the craziest flips of my life! Here in Idaho a triple flip is a rare occurrence, but 150 yards from your house?! Two species?! Niiiiice! #greatbasin #greatbasingophersnake #gophersnake #gophersnakesofinstagram #pituophis #pituophisofinstagram #pituophiscatenifer #mormonracer #yellowbelliedracer #snakesofinstagram #fieldherping #reptilesofinstagram #herpetoculture #tripleflip #flipped #racer #neighborhood #pocatello #idaho #idahome #pocatelloidaho #idahowildlife #idahophotographer

I was fortunate to bump into this hatchling female Utah milksnake right at the moment when she was ready to shed! I don’t recommend anyone help a wild snake shed unless you have extensive experience, but this one’s head started to separate immediately and it shed readily and easily! I’m grateful to have seen her out of shed as it made her about 50 notches more beautiful! #milksnake #milksnake #milksnakesofinstagram #lampropeltis #lampropeltistriangulum #lampropeltistriangulumgentilis #lampropeltisofinstagram #colubrid #colubrids #colubridsofinstagram #colubridsnake #beautifulsnake #tricolor #babysnake #2024 #2023 #triangulum #northamerican #utahmilk #snakesofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #herpetology #herpetoculture #wildsnake #fieldherping #rockflipping #utahwildlife #utahphotographer #rocketrun #snakeshed #snakeshedding

Is the cold weather finally gone?! Is it finally springtime?!

Okay guys, just about one hour left for this beautiful Grizzly girl’s auction! #ballpythonsofinstagram #pythonsofinstagram #snakesofinstagram #reptiles #snakeauction #morphmarket #morphmarketauction #avail #bidonit #winner #newproject #grizzlyballpython #newgene #newmorph #herpetology #herpetoculture #newsnake

Fun little trick at the Ivins Skatepark just outside St. George. It’s about the perfect park! I got the nose manny version too but not on film and not as clean. Next time! #skateboard #manualtrick #manualgrind #5oh #stgeorgeutah #ivinsutah #2023 #skatehomies

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