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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.

22/11/2025

Our handsome adult male black milksnake, Skotos. There are very few things he loves more than digging around in his bedding and leaves, this boy is a very happy burrower.

18/11/2025

Our second biggest girl, Zira, moved to her new 7' enclosure yesterday and spent the day exploring everything. She is significantly less active than Tempest but still likes to sprawl out so I know she'll make good use of the space that's designed around her specific behavior. And look at that gorgeous butt 🤍🖤🤍

17/11/2025

I'll never stop appreciating the little details of these animals. I took Eno, one of our adult male whitesided black rats, out for some pictures. He wasn't super cooperative and preferred to sit on my shoulders, but then I noticed the gorgeous iridescence running up and down his body as I turned in the sunshine.

16/11/2025

Luthien will be getting 2026 off, which also means she's not being brumated. She's certainly not complaining about chicken nugget meals all through the winter!
This girl is one of our best breeders and can produce flawless, big clutches without even looking slightly thin. I swear she creates eggs out of air. However, we still have half a dozen of her ridiculously cute babies available and, while I actually love and prefer having these guys until they're at least a year old (mostly for my selfish enjoyment of them), we do also listen to the market closely. We only want to be producing what is in demand by good homes. Sometimes that means adjusting pairing plans to avoid over producing a species/morph. Babies are fun and I will never be a breeder who wants them to rush out the door, but it's important to be responsible about creating new little lives.

11/11/2025

In a world where "going viral" seems to be chased at all costs, I'd rather just stay in my comfortable corner here with my wonderful group of followers. However, there's always that chance that you make a post and suddenly "the Internet" is rapid firing in your notifications.

It seems my last post of Tempest was shared a bit more than I thought, mostly on Facebook, and I've spent today slapping that "delete and block" button. Babysitting a post was not on my to-do list for this already busy day.

For any newcomers to our page, I have a couple suggestions. First, if you think keeping snakes as pets is cruel regardless of quality of care, this is probably not the page for you. Move on, be angry at someone else because 98% of people with this mindset are hypocrites and the 2% who aren't... I respect your beliefs but have no interest in entertaining them on my page. Catch me in another forum and I'll gladly have a polite debate with you. My posts aren't your soapbox.

My second suggestion is likely directed at a lot of bots since that's just the world we live in, but I'll say it anyway. This is a drama free zone. Again, I respect your right to believe and feel passionately about whatever you want, but I won't tolerate irrelevant religious, political, etc, comments.

This is my page that I've crafted and cared for over the years with a LOT of passion, work and dedication. It will not devolve into the brain rot that has spread to so many corners of the internet. Even making this post is bothering me because I shouldn't have to and it obviously isn't the type of content I put out but I will be pinning it to hopefully ward off even a little bit of madness in the future. Everyone is welcome here, I just ask that you respect each other and keep comments on topic.

Anyways, that's all. Here's a picture of one of our beautiful Baird's rat snakes, Nuada. She's one of our more outgoing snakes and her enclosure overlooks our living room so we are lucky enough to see that gorgeous face throughout every day 💛🩶

10/11/2025

Tempest, one of the queens of the house and the heaviest snake we currently keep. Despite many delays and other work taking priority, we are in the finishing stages of her 14' enclosure, finally! Tempest is a solid 7' long and can stretch from one end of her 7' enclosure to the other with some tail to spare, so I think she's really going to enjoy the extra space.

Generally, we keep our snakes in enclosures that are roughly their body length. With deliberate and customized lay outs designed to make the 3 dimensional space as usable for the snake as possible, we find this size works well. However, some species are just extra active and benefit from additional space. False water cobras are definitely one of those species.

09/11/2025

Taser goes downnnn. Straight down, in fact. I love this silly boy. I never understand why Taiwans are overlooked as much as they are.

07/11/2025

I love a hefty and confident baby black milksnake. This girl has some beautiful contrast and, unlike her siblings, prefers to sit up off the substrate. Usually these guys are heavy burrowers, but she's decided that perching on ledges is more her style for now! You do you, little one, the world needs more weirdos.

05/11/2025

Kaiba, our beautiful girl in my last post, has some 2025 siblings who are insanely cute. I love how we ended up with a gradient of both wild types and hypos, 3 of each that go from light to dark contrast. Baird's are a lot of fun!

03/11/2025

Even though I'm a snow girl through and through, Kaiba's frosted tips are about as wintery as we usually get in North Carolina! This beautiful girl has such a fun personality 🤍

01/11/2025

The brumating snakes were moved into the wine coolers yesterday to begin their winter nap and, as we do every year, everyone had a pre-brumation health check. Our big male calico black rat, Beren, is always fun to interact with. "Turning off" his initial food response to movement will buy us a couple minutes of calm tolerance from him before he starts quietly huffing under his breath, telling us it's time to unhand him. I do enjoy a snake that demands respect. And yes, he really is that bright yellow 💛

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