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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.

14/07/2025

Lyrica, our 6 year old Neotropical bird snake, hanging out. Our pair has been housed together for the last 3 years and are two of the most visible snakes in the house. It's a rare day where they aren't both sprawled out with all the confidence in the world.
To answer the question I am asked every time I post them, no, we do not breed them. They are housed together but they get no cycling of any sort and have no interest in each other beyond roommates, which is exactly what we want for now.

13/07/2025

Oh, little buddy, I don't think it's legal to be that cute!
Look at this beautiful baby! Our first Tarahumara mountain kingsnake hatched at Smoldering Serpents this morning and he couldn't possibly be more perfect. It looks like his 4 siblings are considering joining us soon as well. Whoever snaps these babies up will have the privilege of keeping one of the best Lampropeltis species out there.

12/07/2025

It's been requested so many times, I couldn't even begin to count... and now I am finally making time to do it! Time for a remake of the Meet Our Snakes series on our YouTube channel. It's been 3 years since I made the first round of videos featuring every individual snake in our house and our group looks a little different (and a lot more grown up!). Filming will begin this week and in the meantime, here's a collage of every one of our Smoldering Serpents ❤️

11/07/2025

Tapio is such a handsome little man. He's the smallest adult snake in our house at only about 250 grams and not even 3' long, but he has a big personality and always brightens my day when I see him out and about. His babies should be hatching any day now!
Tarahumara mountain kings are a long time favorite of mine. They're obviously beautiful but it's their sweet, confident and gentle behavior that stole my heart many years ago when we had another girl, Inta. She unfortunately had health complications and we had to part with her far too soon, but Tapio and his girl, Meliki, have brought back all the happiness this species sparks in me. Very underappreciated snakes.

08/07/2025

It was an amazing day today. After trying unsuccessfully for years, the first Japanese rats have hatched at Smoldering Serpents 💚🩵

This is not a difficult species to produce, but we've had bad luck with them for a long while. Finally, our new female, Eska, let our very enthusiastic Jinx do what he's been trying to do for the last 3 years. Kunashir Island Japanese rats have smaller clutches than mainland Japanese rats and it was Eska's first clutch so we got only 3 eggs but they were huge and perfect. Now, 60 days later, we have 3 gorgeous and BIG babies!

All of them are long spoken for by people who have had an unbelievable amount of patience and have been waiting years for these little ones right alongside us. They will all be cherished and very well taken care of.

05/07/2025

Yesterday was an eventful day, with a very exciting finale! Tempest, our 5 year old false water cobra, laid 17 beautiful eggs. Most are candling well already so it looks like our male, Toranos, was successful in his clear affection for our big girl. Tempest is thin but has already found all of her usual strength and intensity, she did amazing for a first time mom 🖤

04/07/2025

Two 4th of July babies but just a little bit different from each other! Hatching only hours apart today, the corn weighs 5 grams and the bull weighs 58. The corn is sweet as can be and the bull..... well, she knows how to throw her size around already 🙃

02/07/2025

What a beautiful group of babies! These are our 2025 Russian rat snakes. I finished their first official photoshoot this afternoon and they were all so cooperative and sweet. I can't wait to get these little ones matched to wonderful homes.

29/06/2025

With a very full incubator this year, it's a balancing act of checking eggs but not disturbing everyone too much. It seems these little guys were waiting for a day of peace to all come out at once! I hadn't even seen dimpling or a pip yet and this morning I opened the box to find 7 out of 8 little worms looking back at me, the last one has their nose poking out as well. Welcome, class of 2025 calico black rats 🥰

28/06/2025

We got a surprise last year when half our whitesided clutch came out albino and this gorgeous boy was an instant stand out in every way. He is such an easy going and calmly curious snake, one of the nicest yearlings I've had, and those subtle colors are the opposite of a typical high contrast whitesided but are unbelievably pretty. He won't be going anywhere so I'd like to officially introduce everyone to Edoras 🤍

24/06/2025

Possibly the most surprisingly peaceful couple of 2025, we have Tempest and Toranos. Cohabitation is always a divisive and unnecessarily heated topic, but that's never stopped us from asking questions, carefully exploring options and tailoring our care to our individual snakes based on their behavior, not based on what the loudest people online say.
Tempest has always been what I would affectionately call... completely crazy and out of control. Her food drive is second to none and she would crash into her door on a daily basis at the sight of any movement. Getting her out to handle or do cage maintenance was a whole task to calm her down. Once out, she's always been sweet and easy, but in the enclosure..... the definition of chaos.
Since we started pairing these two this spring, they have shown a completely different side of themselves when in the same cage. They are calm, peaceful, curious and just much more content seeming. They spent time together, whether actively breeding or not, but also have their separate spots they like to hang out. We don't feed them together, but otherwise, it's been really cool to see such a dramatic shift in snakes I assumed would just always be extra dramatic.

21/06/2025

Nuada, our darker and het hypo female Baird's rat snake, laid a gorgeous and big clutch yesterday. She looks amazing, I don't know how she manages to barely look like she just laid. We always prioritize keeping our snakes at a healthy weight, including our breeding females. We aim for the girls to be robust but nothing extra. Some of them, like Nuada, seem to create eggs out of thin air because they're back to their usual weight in only a couple weeks.

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