Photo Gallery

A behind the scenes look at what goes on here!

We use Freedom Breeder cages for adult Ball Pythons. The history of feeding, shedding, breeding, and any problems is recorded on a card for each animal.

This building is temperature and humidity controlled. This is only one of several buildings or rooms for housing our reptiles.

The rodent room contains racks with pans housing rats and mice.

We use an auto-watering system from Ag-Select on all rodent pans. We feed our rodents Harlan Teklad feed, a lab grade rodent chow.

Laci is our newest family member and will be protecting the property in the near future.

In addition to Ball Pythons, we are working with Whitewater Rosy Boas.

Our guard dogs Shelli and Alex let us know if anyone comes onto our property.

Beginning in October we lower our temperatures and begin pairing our Ball Pythons. We like to see this when checking the cages daily!

Breedings continue into March and early April. Single copulations sometimes last 24 hours or more.

We check in on the females several times daily looking for the signs. This girl is ovulating and she looks miserable. That big lump is very hard to the touch.

This girl is building follicles and appears to grow bigger each day.

Females begin to look HUGE!

Then finally the eggs begin to arrive.

This girl was very protective of her clutch of eggs. It was a good size clutch with 9 eggs.

Eggs are removed from the females and placed in a box with a mix of vermiculite, perlite and water. A pane of glass is placed on top to retain the humidity and the box is placed in our incubator.

Our incubator is made from an old cooler and it works great.

The incubator is controlled with a Helix thermostat and is set for 89 degrees. We have a backup battery pack in case of power failure and a generator system for long-term outages.

In approximately 56 days the eggs will hatch.

This is something that we never get tired of seeing!

Sometimes a clutch includes a dud or slug egg, one that is not fertile and we know will not hatch. The small egg in upper right is a slug.

Eggs stick together most of the time, but the little guys always seem to find a way out. We don't cut eggs unless they have gone several days past the hatching of most of the others. We then cut a thin line across the top of the egg to allow the baby to come out.

We are vendors at many shows in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. This is the National Reptile Breeder's Expo in Daytona Beach. Our table is in the lower right corner with the pink and black banner.

This was the Atlanta Show in 2005 where I met many wonderful people.

We have some colubrids in our collection as well as the Ball Pythons. This is a beautiful Albino Tangerine Honduran Milk snake.

Some of our local reptile wildlife gets into the action too! It's just that time of year.