Our Ball Python Story

My family and I have always loved animals. As children, Dad would take every opportunity to observe and teach about every reptile and amphibian we encountered. We caught our first snake (Eastern Garter) together when I was three years old. We kept and observed this beautiful reptile for a little while, and my love for snakes was born.

This continued for many years, with us identifying native species, occasionally over several days to observe behavior. After spending three-and-a-half years in Hawaii, which has no snakes (other than a species of blind snake and a sea snake), I was suffering from snake withdrawal. Don't get me wrong-Hawaii was AWESOME, but I finally got my first pet snake, a Normal Ball Python named Medusa once we returned to the mainland US.

While researching the care requirements for a ball python for a full year before I received Medusa and in the first several months she was in our home, I learned a lot about genetics and breeding. From that point, I was determined to be a breeder. We then purchased our first several morphs, a male Banana Ball Python named "Banana" (creative, I know), and a female Piebald Ball Python named "Aphrodite" (returning to the greek mythology theme). In the year that followed, we carefully planned and purchased our breeding animals and had a total of 20 ball pythons.