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We are a small scale snake breeder with a focus on providing our animals with large, naturalistic enclosures and lots of enrichment.
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23/11/2024

Jinx is down for his winter nap but looking so pretty every time we check on him 🩵💚

21/11/2024

Anyone remember Bug? We picked her up at about a week old in 2020. She had serious digestive issues and was really looking like a case of failure to thrive for a good while there. Eventually, through much trial and error, she started keeping meals down and regaining strength. 4 1/2 years later, she's an absolutely gorgeous, robust girl who will hopefully have some tiny Bugs of her own this year.

20/11/2024

Beautiful and sweet Anapel is one of many snakes down for brumation right now. We still do very brief weekly checks and usually one more in depth health assessment in the middle of their winter nap to make sure everyone is doing well. They'll all looking great and will stay in the coolers until mid-late January.

17/11/2024

The last couple 2024 hatchlings are headed out the door this week, which is our last shipping week until spring, and then we are settling into the quiet off season. Beautiful Nyx here, our older female black milksnake, is such a nice girl to hang out with on a less busy day 🖤

14/11/2024

These boys 🖤🤍🩶🤍
The top picture was taken just over 4 1/2 years ago, the bottom one today. What was really interesting about watching them grow up is that Eno (dark) grew significantly quicker than Shiloh (light). From 1-2 years old, Eno was literally 3 times the size of Shiloh. Shiloh was a bit of a fussy eater for a little while but also just had a fairly petite look to him. We fully expected Eno to end up a far bigger snake than his brother.
Here we are, both boys mature, one already a dad. These two are within 30 grams of each other, they are essentially the same size. I see a lot of people concerned when their young snake isn't growing as much as they expected and I always tell them to just be patient. Feed a healthy amount, no overfeeding, no underfeeding. Just give them time to fully mature, keep them strong and muscular along the way and they will grow up just fine.

11/11/2024

Look at this beautiful boy! This is an update picture on one of our 2023 Baird's hatchlings and I'm always so happy to see them doing well in amazing homes.

07/11/2024

The term "underrated" gets tossed around a lot for basically any species that isn't a ball python or corn snake, but this is one I truly feel doesn't get the recognition it deserves despite being fairly well known. The unappreciated beauty snake, Taiwans are a hidden gem. They're absolutely stunning, are generally much more laid back than other beauty snake species and are so rewarding to keep in big, complex enclosures. Confident, curious, bottomless pits. This boy is from our 2024 clutch and still has a good number of siblings waiting for the right homes to come looking for them.

05/11/2024

I just want to thank all of you for the immense amount of support you showed us in our last post. The frustrations I deal with don't usually spill into the posts I make but sometimes you need to let off some steam. I didn't expect the avalanche of kind words though and it was so appreciated.
We are wrapping up the 2024 season with some last shipments before we close up for the winter. What a season it's been! Once shipping is done for the year and I have some more time to go over our nerdy data, I will be posting some interesting experiences we've had this time around with clutches. Overall, it was a phenomenal season, arguably the best we've had. Thank you for sticking around to be part of the experience 💕

29/10/2024

Life has been busy and incredibly stressful in the last few weeks. While I wish I could quickly keep on top of messages 100% of the time, my many inboxes are filled on a daily basis with sales inquiries, lengthy snake care questions, cage building questions, plenty of random conversations about nearly every snake related topic possible. I would rather take some time and give thorough answers than give a quick, shallow response. With all the other things happening in my life right now, sometimes that means slower messages from me, I cannot prioritize everything at once.
Most people are very understanding but then you have people like this. This is not okay. This person asked to buy a snake on behalf of someone else, then when told we want to speak with potential homes directly to see what kind of care the snake will get, her response was simply to tell me how long she's been keeping snakes and then give a phone number to call, which was not possible to do immediately. A very busy day passed and I get these messages calling me a "scammer" who won't go far.
For all our amazing customers and followers and friends who are decent, kind people.... thank you. I am running on fumes sometimes and even if it takes a while to answer, I will get there. To the people like this woman.... other people's lives don't revolve around you. Have some patience, have some understanding that we are all busy and trying our best.

09/10/2024

Our home bred hypo Baird's, Kaiba, is just incredibly beautiful and has such a nice personality! She started as a fairly unremarkable hatchling compared to her very colourful hypo siblings, but has matured into a real frosty-tipped gem.

02/10/2024

Toranos, our male false water cobra, is so happy in his new 7' enclosure! This boy was long due for an upgrade and it's so nice to see him instantly showing all the behaviors we want to see from a confident and stress free snake.

27/09/2024

Not even 3 months old and our corn snake hatchlings are glowing up so beautifully! Here's a comparison of two babies, the pictures on the left were taken at 3 weeks old and the pictures on the right were taken at 11 weeks old.

26/09/2024

Gorgeous Raven, our lightest Gulf Hammock rat snake. I'll never stop preaching about how amazing these snakes are if you're looking for a confident, hardy, interactive, mid-sized snake. They climbed right up my list of favorites years ago and definitely aren't going anywhere.

20/09/2024

What a shock we had when this enormous girl crawled out of her egg! Nova only ended up with 4 good eggs but wowee, she went for quality over quantity. All 4 are huge and this girl is the biggest black milk hatchling we've produced by far. Between Nova and Nyx, we got 13 perfect hatchlings, all waiting for their first sheds and meals, then into the light box for official photographs.

19/09/2024

Autumn, our 3 1/2 year old blacktail cribo, was moved to a new 5x2x2' enclosure while her 7x2x2' is being built. This beautiful girl spent a day or two roaming around, exploring, and has now settled in perfectly, seeming quite content with her new home.

16/09/2024

On to some amazing news! Taser and Buttercup, our Taiwan beauty snakes, produced a flawless clutch of 8 hatchlings that are all doing so well. They're big, robust and eating like champs. Taiwans have long been a favorite species and producing them for the first time has only increased the love we have for these gorgeous snakes.
These babies will be ready to ship out late October/early November, feel free to message me if you're looking for an incredibly underrated and outgoing species with some size to them.

13/09/2024

This season has been full of some pretty dramatic ups and downs and yesterday was a significant down.
Our beautiful 10 year old common boa, Isis, had been struggling with recurring infections in her facial area around the top of her nose, along her upper lips and up between her eyes. We believe it started when she was temporarily housed in an enclosure we now see was poorly designed with the types of door latches it used. She, although typically an incredibly content snake who didn't show signs of being restless, seemed to have pushed her nose against the interior of the metal door latch, which was exposed due to the design of the cage.
Initially, the injured area seemed fairly minor. It was treated but expected to simply go away after her meds were done and she had a nice shed. Unfortunately, these infections would reappear seemingly randomly over time. She was moved out of the initial enclosure immediately after she hurt her nose and we realized what happened, and she had been housed in set ups with absolutely nowhere to get her nose caught and she never showed signs of discontent or pacing. So it seemed the infection never actually cleared fully.
Our amazing vets always guide us down the right path and, after trying to fight this multiple times with intensive treatments and the specialist letting us know the infection was in her facial bones, we had to ask the dreaded quality of life question. I hate that question. It's possibly the biggest responsibility we have as guardians of our animals and it's something they can't decide for themselves. It feels wrong even when it's clearly the right thing to do. She was only 10 years old, she should have had decades of life to live. These sudden losses always feel so unfair, a robbery of beautiful lives.
Isis was such a good natured and impressive snake. She was the queen of the house and by far the largest for many years before a couple other giants moved in over time. She handled the uncomfortable and invasive treatments we tried for her like such a sweetheart, never putting up a fuss. She's always been such a calm and steady presence amongst all the active and derpy colubrids, I'm going to miss her a lot.

11/09/2024

I'd like to introduce Eska, our new female Japanese rat snake 🩵💚
After multiple years of Jazz making very clear she has absolutely no interest in Jinx, we decided to respect her choice and look for a female who will hopefully find Jinx's advances much more charming. This beautiful girl is just over 3 years old, already has a gorgeous amount of blue in her and will be tried with Jinx next season.
The logistics of these situations can be tough and bring some difficult decisions. Jazz has been with us since she was a chubby hatchling and she is obviously incredibly loved by our followers. However, we don't have unlimited space, our style of keeping requires a lot of room, and although we care for and love all our animals the same whether they breed or not, we do have to make choices that allow us to continue operating as breeders. In the situation where we do consider letting an adult snake go, it's always the first priority to find a top tier home, whether that's next week or next year or beyond.
Our Jazzy found a phenomenal home very quickly, not surprisingly, and is settling in very nicely. It's always really hard to let a snake go and I had been hoping that day wouldn't come for Jazz, but I can honestly say this worked out perfectly for everyone involved. Jazz can happily live her single life and we now have beautiful Eska to hopefully pair with Jinx.

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