Lethal Exotics LLC

03/27/2025

Baby monocled cobra galore over here. Two separate clutches. Normal het leucistic and leucistic het blizzards.

03/27/2025

If you haven’t heard yet the owners are starting a Serpentarium. This buisness will still continue as the breeding side of things as a separate business.

03/12/2025

22 leucistic het blizzard monocled cobras (Naja kaouthia)

02/17/2025

The baby Northern Pacific x Southern Pacific Rattlesnake hybrids. First hybrids in captivity of their kind.

02/17/2025

We had monocled cobras hatch on Valentines Day! 💘 These are het leucistics.

02/07/2025

UPDATE 3/10/25: This bill is scheduled to be heard by the Wildlife Subcommittee on Wednesday, March 19th at 12:30 PM. The location is: Blatt Building Room 409, 1105 Pendleton St, Columbia, SC 29201. Written testimony should be emailed to [email protected]. You can also email to register to speak. Send another comment even if you have already done so, and any stakeholders should attend the hearing to oppose in person. Sample letter, bill text, and more at https://usark.org/25sc/.

Sample letter, bill text, and more at https://usark.org/25sc/.

South Carolina House Bill 3937 (H3937) was introduced on Feb. 6, 2025 by Representative Hixon. It will ban venomous reptiles (list below). The bill makes it illegal to import into, possess, keep, purchase, have custody or control of, reproduce, or sell within this State. Current owners can get permits and must register their animals within 90 days of the effective date. Permits must be renewed every three years and the cost is $150. Exemptions (but permit still required) apply to:

1. Public facilities at a fixed facility that are open to the public for a time of no less than thirty hours per week for at least six months per year; and
2. for bona fide research purposes, licensed medical or pharmaceutical facilities, institutions of higher learning, or other similar institutions at the department's discretion.

Venomous reptiles banned, including hybrids: families Elapidae, Crotalidae, Viperidae, and Hydrophiidae; all reptiles in the genus Heloderma; all reptiles in the family Colubridae belonging to the genera: Rhabdophis, Balanophis, Macropisthodon, Boiga, Dispholidus, Thelotornis, and Thrasops, and all reptiles in the family Atractaspididae.

This is a snippet. Sample letter, bill text, and more at https://usark.org/25sc/.

02/01/2025

More monocled cobra eggs! Diamond leucistic x blizzard leucistic

12/29/2024

REMINDER: The comment deadline for the blue tree monitor ESA listing is February 24 at 11:59 PM EST. Go to our alert for information on how and what to comment. Get full details at www.usark.org/23esa2
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UPDATE 12/27/24: The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has used emergency rulemaking to apply a 240-day temporary listing for the blue tree monitor (Varanus macraei) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This is effective immediately. FWS has proposed that this listing will be permanent. They can choose not to list the species if the evidence does not support the listing, or they can modify the listing. This will now be an expedited process. Anyone working with this species, especially those who have successfully bred it, should submit information (see full alert for info) to FWS.

Read the Federal Register notice at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/26/2024-30375/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-emergency-listing-of-the-blue-tree-monitor-as-an

12/16/2024

We spent Friday and Saturday with the Michigan Society of Herpetologists at the Novi Pet Expo. Educated the public on facts and captive care of the larger reptile species.

12/10/2024

Monocled eggs!! Het Lucy x Diamond leucistic.

12/05/2024

Alert below and at https://usark.org/24mi/.

Senator Polehanki has introduced a late bill in the Michigan Senate to classify all crocodilians as prohibited species. A grandfather clause allows the owner to obtain a permit from Michigan DNR. Owners who held crocodilians before the effective date will have 180 days to get permits.

The bill language can be found here, and the bold text is new (the bill amends a current law): https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/htm/2024-SIB-1140.htm

The bill is currently with the Committee on Regulatory Affairs. You can find the Committee members at https://senate.michigan.gov/Committees/details?Code=REGAF&sessionId=15.

You can track the bill at https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2024-SB-1140.

The Michigan Legislature adjourns on 12/23/24.

11/26/2024

Meyles and her big beautiful prehistoric self 🐊

11/24/2024