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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 h**ping 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 h**per 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 h**ping 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

04/24/2025

When I got into Mexicana and montane kingsnakes it was never really a goal to collect them all. They’re just so cool, you kind of can’t help it! Once I had them all, it was never my goal to be able to say I’ve successfully bred them all, either. For years I’ve produced Alterna, Leonis, Mex Mex, Greeri, Pyros and Zonata, but the one species giving me trouble were Ruthveni. I got a pair in 2016 and have tried to breed them every year since they reached maturity, but they just didn’t produce! Until 2024…which happened to be the year I added an AC unit to the brumation room. Maybe that did the trick, or perhaps it was just one of those things where you have to put in the time to be rewarded. Either way, I would be lying if I said that I hadn’t considered selling my pair and using the space for something else.

Now that I have these hatchlings (yearlings now), I’m so glad that I stuck with it. It was really the most rewarding thing of the whole last season, watching my first Ruthveni crawl out of their eggs! It helps that they all ate F/T mice right out of the egg, and that they have an albino and striped/aberrant gene to play around with. These snakes are really different from the other Mexicana complex. I liken them to a cross between Mex Mex and Pyro, but more robust than either. Really cool and unique animals that I’m having a lot of fun with!

One day maybe I can produce Lampropeltis Webbi, the world’s rarest kingsnake, and then truly be able to say I’ve produced all the species in the complex! For now, that one isn’t available and I’ll take 5/5, until we can get the 6th species, if ever!
**petoculture **petología **petology

04/18/2025

Okay, just one more post about the little baby weasel I saw the other day! Right after I finished taking the video I posted a reel of yesterday, he leapt off the branch and into the water just inches from over 100 hungry rainbow trout and swiftly swam to the other side! It happened so fast I didn’t even realize I had captured any of it until later! He was hyping himself up to make the jump in the video and trying to gauge distance and level of danger! 🤯. Next post will be a snake, I promise!

04/14/2025

Some crazy deals are about to be had! Go and check out the auctions I’m running on MorphMarket ending in about half an hour!

04/11/2025

and I went to check the garter snake den site we found last year and sure enough, they were out! What we didn’t expect was a melanistic individual! This is now the second melanistic morph I’ve seen in less than a year in a totally different area! How cool! **ping

04/02/2025

I’ve been having trouble deciding what reptile to post next, so how about my first (and second) steelhead instead? Notice the wild female, aka hen, spewing eggs in the first pic. She was quickly released. The second fish, also a hen, and a hatchery fish, became some of the best fish wraps of our lives! 😋 Thanks to my buddy John Miller for helping me learn to fish for these monsters! ❤️

03/15/2025

This post is all about saying “thank you” to my amazing customers who give me the life I dreamed of. In three days, I will have officially been a full time reptile breeder for 5 years. I was never sure how long this would work out, or if it even WOULD work out, but a sincere thank you goes out to all of you amazing people who support me and my family by buying snakes from me! It’s been an amazing ride! As a way to show my appreciation, I’m running a 25% sale on all ball pythons, as well as select colubrids that have been on the market longer than a month or so. MorphMarket reflects this pricing. In addition to that, through this Sunday the 16th, all the new animals I’ve posted are also 15% off. This pricing will not be reflected on MorphMarket, so be sure to mention to me that you saw my post to get my discount! We have nearly 200 animals up on MM and ready to go, so I’m certain there’s something for everyone! The link is in my bio! **petoculture **petology #2020 **ping ❤️

03/13/2025

I found the first h**p of 2025 on Tuesday while wearing a teeshirt and fishing. Aaaand today it’s a blizzard! Springtime, here we come! **poftheyear **ping #2025 🌸

03/09/2025

We have hognose up on our MorphMarket store! Go and have a look! I added 40 new animals (not just hogs) on Friday and have 20 more going up today.

Please join me for a podcast tonight at 7:30 pm EST on Joe DeStefano’s Colubrid Corruption Podcast on YouTube! ✈️

03/05/2025

I’ve waited two and a half years to make this post, and I can finally do it! In the fall of 2022 I got a call from a set manager from Hollywood who was making a movie in Jackson Hole. They cold called me after finding my business on Google asking if I could provide them with any snake teeth and potentially bring and wrangle a live snake on the set. I was happy to do both! 13 years in the game and I can finally call myself an official “snake wrangler”! Of all the titles I’ve attained in my life, this is a pretty cool, albeit slightly hilarious one!

Throughout the filming of the movie that fall I made a couple trips to Jackson to help out. Movie schedules are very fluid with lots of waiting around (and eating bomb food every 4 hours) so it provided me with some great opportunities to go fishing in between times. No complaints there!

When the time came to put my live Great Basin Gophersnake on camera we had waited for the crew to film some golden hour shots in the vehicles for several hours, night had fallen and temps had dropped. The director had the production folks light up the hillside to look like daytime so we could film the scene. Given that it was 55 degrees, we only had a couple brief moments to work to with the snake before having to run her back up to the house to warm up. The home where the family lives in this film, and where a lot of the movie takes place was incredible (see pic of reflection pool and view of the Tetons from the back patio). Fortunately the place had heated floors so I could set her down briefly in her snake bag and she would be all warmed up and ready for another take!

This film is about xenophobia and hostility the family encounters when they move from the Bay Area to Wyoming. The whole snake thing plays a pretty big role, too! The stars of the film are Ken Jeong, best known for his role in the Hangover, Miya Cech (she’s holding the snake in the photo) from Surfside Girls and other films and TV, Jae Suh Park, and Emerson Min. The movie is now available to rent and buy on Prime Video, so check it out!

02/23/2025

Join me tonight at 6:00 MST for a podcast with We will have another cracker of a conversation for you guys to listen to and weigh in on! From colubrids to pythons and everything in between, no topic is off limits! Come and check it out!

02/22/2025

This is a really cool moment for me. I collected a pair of Utah milks in 2019 (only legal using the state’s COR permit), and 6 years later, this is my first offering to the public! It’s only one male, and it’s a snake that won’t let me photograph him worth a darn, but it represents an insane amount of work and dedication to make locale specific Utah milks available to the hobby once again!

Historically Utah milks were somewhat readily available, but when I got into the hobby there was one male Utah milk available on kingsnake.com circa 2013. Since then, there have been essentially zero publicly available, so I’m very happy to make any offering that I can to help re-establish them in the hobby and to reduce pressure on the natural population and wild collection.

Oh, and also! I have Sheridan County, Cherry County Nebraska and 66% Het Hypo Red Milks posted, so check my MM link in my bio.

02/19/2025

Who else loves Super Hypo Greeri?! It’s been a long while since I’ve posted any of these! I’ll be darned if these aren’t up there with the creme de la creme of colubrids! I will be adding a number of them to MorphMarket very soon! #2024 **petoculture **petology

02/06/2025

This could be the nicest Durango Mountain Kingsnake I’ve ever produced! Maui wowwie! The dam was represented to me as a Zacatecas, MX Greeri, and the sire is a Rancho Santa Barbara Durango, MX locale individual from Ric Blair’s stock.

Go check my MorphMarket store, you may be surprised at what you see! 👀 **petoculture **petology

02/05/2025

It’s been a while since the bamboo ratsnakes got some love! This one, as well as some others, will be hitting MorphMarket soon!

02/04/2025

You guys may have seen the granite-type Leonis I’ve hatched out from the melanistic project. This snake is completely unrelated to those. This one is from my Alaska Reptiles keyhole line (Vivid X Lopez) with a little bit of Vivid Reptiles blood I got from Highland Herps mixed in.

This was a complete surprise, but it’s also the first time I’ve done this pairing, so it’s pretty exciting. I look forward to seeing how this look can be developed inside and outside of the melanistic project. It’s sad that I have to even state this, but these are PURE Leonis with traceable lineage. I have also traced back my entire melanistic project which was all pure lineage as well. DM me if you want to see family trees. #2024 **petology **petoculture

02/02/2025

https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/all?auction=true&ordering=auction_end_time&seller=prismatic

01/31/2025

Join me for a live podcast this coming Sunday 2/2/25 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern @ https://youtube.com/?si=r5ARiEV-l9cNC7gB. Just type in “Warfel’s Morphs” on YouTube and you’ll be good to go! Tune in for some fun reptile talk!

01/27/2025

It’s time to introduce the newest gene I’m working with! This is called the Midnight. It was founded by Thomas Bates of Skip’s Termite Mound and he generously shared it with me! It was originally present in a very dark pied he got, and it just makes everything darker! The pattern is distorted as well! I’m really excited to see where this goes! Photos of some of the founder stock are interesting to see, and I included photos of those in the later slides. Check my MorphMarket (link in bio) to see if I maybe posted a couple for a flight outta here!
Photo 1 - single gene Midnight DH Hypo Pied
Photo 2 - Mojave Midnight DH Hypo Pied
Photo 3 - Midnight Hypo Pied
Photo 4 - Mojave Midnight Hypo Pied
Photo 5 - Midnight DH Hypo Pied - sire to the previous babies shown
Photo 6 - Pastel YB DH Puzzle/Pied (credit Thomas Bates)
Photo 7 - Mojave Midnight DH Hypo Pied (credit Thomas Bates)

Hit me up if you’re interested in the project!
**petoculture **petology

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