Browse our galleries below that include photos of our reptile facilities, wildlife and expos.
Facility Photos
Some tubs and babies in my new baby rack.
A CB70 adult tub set-up.
A CB70 adult rack.
Shoebox baby rack that we use for hatchlings up to about 400-500 gram snakes.
My original building with the cement poured for the addition.
The original building with the addition built.
This is a pic of my original room right before the addition was built. A little bit too cramped.
The addition was where we put the snakes. The old room is used for rats now. Here is the addition.
Baby rack set up in new room.
Some of our baby rats.
My wife does the rats, and thought Dumbo rats were cute, so we bought a breeding group and started breeding them as well.
This is a full shot of the cages that we use for breeding rats.
This is a close-up of one of the cages we use for breeding.
This is a pic of the rat racks that we use for pregnant and nursing moms.
This is a tub in one of the nursing racks.
Incubator we built for the 2006 hatching season.
Behind the scenes shot of wiring for the incubator.
New rodent room during construction.
New rodent room after construction was complete.
New rodent room in use in February of 2007. The old rodent room was taken over with snakes.
Our new ARS rodent rack full of rats and ready for production.
Our new ARS hatchling rack, filled with snakes.
Breeding Photos
The first female that my pastel bred in 04/05.
Pastel breeding another female.
Close-up shot of pastel breeding.
The only female that I had for my hypo in 04/05.
A close-up of hypo breeding.
My Spider breeding his first female in 05.
Hopefully a Super in the making in 05/06.
Axanthic breeding a 66% Het. female in 05/06. His first breeding.
My Albino breeding a female Het. in 05/06. His first breeding.
Spider doing a great job in 05/06.
A normal ovulating from my spider male.
A Het Albino ovulating from an Albino male.
Pastel Poss. Het. G-Stripe finally getting it done.
66% Poss. Het. Axanthic ovulating from my Axanthic male.
First clutch of 06. Hypo x Normal.
The first snake, hatching at our facility, poking it's head out.
A group pic of our first clutch.
The first clutch of snakes to hatch at our facility. 2.3 Het. Hypomelanistics.
Our first Spiders crawling out of their eggs.
A pic of our only Albino, in the egg.
The Albino, that was cut from the egg, it died crawling out. It was severly deformed.
Our first Pastel clutch, dad was also poss. Het. Genetic Stripe.
06/07 A long awaited breeding for us. Come on Pins het Axanthic.
06/07 Our Pin male finally figured out how to breed. Now we need to figure out how to make him slow down.
06/07 Our Mojave male breeding for the second time this season. He is breeding one of our nice reduced pattern girls. Hopefully we can get some reduced mojaves.
06/07 Our Cinnamon male breeding for the second time this season. Hopefully we can get some Cinnys that look like dad.
06/07 Spider breeding a Hypo female. Come on Honeybees.
Our first clutch of the '07 season. She laid 45 days POS and was bred by our Pinstripe. Come on Blast. She still had 1 egg left to go when this picture was taken. 5 eggs total clutch.
My Sulpher male finally getting it done. Hopefully it's not too late for a clutch, this was March 31st.
One of my most anticipated ovulations of the 06/07 breeding season. She was bred by my Axanthic male.
Our first clutch of the '07 season. We ended up with 1 Normal, 1 Pastel, 1 Pinstripe and 2 Lemon Blasts.
A clutch I've been waiting for eagerly. My Pin female bred by my VPI Axanthic.
Our last clutch of 2007 also happens to contain our first set of twins ever. Just normals, but cool none the less.
Our first clutch of the '08 season. This girl was bred by our original Spider.
This is the first clutch of 2008 pipping.
Here are the babies from the first clutch of 2008.
Our most anticipated clutch of 2008. Our Double Het. True Ghost female on eggs.
This is our first Leucistic hatching. It is a Super Mojave Leucy.
Our first clutch off eggs for the 2009 season.
This is an actual shot of Clutch #1/2009 eggs.
Results of Clutch #1/2009. A Pastel and a pair of Yellow Bellies.
Our first clutch of eggs for the 2010 season. They happen to be corn snake eggs, because our Balls are running late this year.
Wildlife Photos
An adult Marsh Brown Snake(Storeria Dekayi Limnetes) that we caught under a board while we were building the addition to our snake building.
A close-up of the Marsh Brown Snake.
A Ring-necked Snake(Diadophus Punctatus) that we caught in the barn. It was only about five days old and was about three inches long.
An Eastern Box Turtle that I caught in the middle of the road on the way home from work.
A Red-eared Slider(Trachemmys Scripta) that my daughter caught in our pond one day.
A belly shot of the Red-eared Slider.
I don't know what kind of frog this is, but I have three of them that live in my goldfish pond.
A green tree frog that was in a tree by my porch.
Another shot of the tree frog.
This is a gravid skink that I caught while I was building my new snake room addition.
A preying mantis that my daughter found on my wife's hydrangeas. It's a little blurry, because he kept shaking while I was trying to take the picture.
A Texas Rat Snake(Elaphe Obsoleta) that we caught in the barn.
A Southern Black Racer(Coluber Constrictor Priapus) that I caught in my yard after my wife almost ran over it in the truck. A testy little fellow.
A pair of Canadian Geese that show up at my house every year and lay eggs on my island.
A Diamond-backed Water Snake(Nerodia Rhombifera) that I caught in my goldfish pond.
A Western Ribbon Snake(Thamnophis Sauritus Proximus) that I caught in my yard while walking back from fishing in the pond.
A Red-eared Slider(Trachemmys Scripta) from our pond that Monica caught in the act of laying eggs.
A picture of the egg nest from the Red-eared Slider.
A Speckled King Snake(Lampropeltis getula holbrooki) that I caught in my yard while taking a break from cleaning snakes.
An Eastern Black Swallowtail(Papilio polyxenes asterius) that landed on our Azaleas in front of our porch.
This is a baby squirrel that got scared when my son walked out the front door. It jumped off of my daughters bike and ran up my wife's leg. My wife actually walked inside with the squirrel attached and got the camera before taking the picture.
This is a Snapping Turtle(Chelydra serpentina) that my wife saw walking in our field away from our pond. His carapce was about 18 inches.
A Rough Green Snake(Opheodrys aestivus) that Monica saw hanging by her head in the bushes while she was cutting grass.
We put the Rough Green Snake in our rubber plant to get some good shots. Here was one of the best pics.
A belly shot of the Western mud. It really is a beautiful snake.
A pair of Green Anoles(Anolis carolinensis) that I caught in the act in our barn. I see plenty of Anoles, and this isn't our first sighting, but a neat picture never the less.
An American Shrew Mole(Neurotrichus gibbsii) that our cat brought to us on Christmas morning. What a present!
This was the first snake I caught at the house in 2010. It happens to be a lifer for me, and is a Midland Water Snake (Nerodia sipedon pleuralis).
An Albino slider that has been residing and sunning in our pond for the last week. I can't seem to get close without him getting nervous, but I'll keep trying for a better close-up.
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail(Papilio glaucus) that I found in a spider web by my rodent room. Too bad this beautiful guy was already deceased.
A Western mud snake (Farancia abacura reinwardti) that was in the front yard. The cat was acting strange and when I walked over, this is what she was investigating. I have been trying to catch on of these for three years now. Finally.
While I have seen many of these around my pond, I have never had the opportunity to get a really good picture. This guy was pretty cooperative. Here is a Water Moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus).
I found the cat staring at this little guy. Put hijm in a bucket for a phot and a release back into the pond. A baby Water Moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus).
I couldn't get a good in-situ picture, so I hooked it and took some nice studio style pics. This is a Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix). We found it hiding next to our trash can slight under the back patio slab.
I hear these guys all the time in the evening, and occassionally see one flying through the yard near dusk. They are truly silent flyers. This is a Barred Owl (Strix varia) that I saw fly and perch in one of my live oak trees in the front yard.
We feed these guys on the porch, and I love to watch them. But I have never been able to get a pic as good as this one. This guy was stuck in the rafters of the new building and worn out from trying to escape. He let me pick him up. This is a Ruby Throated Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanensis).
This little Nine Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) was diggin in the yard and I picked it up to move it out of the way of the dog. He barely had his eyes open, but was rooting around with the best of them.