We have been involved with herps for as far back as we can remember.  Our first pet shop Boa contrictor cost $10 in the early 70's. We started breeding colubrid snakes in the 80's, but quickly grew fond of the boa and python families.

Because of our intense passion, we have read and researched all that we could find back in the day and still today.  We were rewarded by being some of the first if the the first with several species. 

Today, our goal is to bring two species of python to a new level in herptoculture. The Borneo short tail (Python brietensteini) and the Sumatran short tail Python curtus. These two pythons are still judged by old invalid data. They are not the hard to keep and ill mannered animals as described in past literature.  We find these serpents to be quite docile and placid once acclimated.  These two species are medium-sized pythons with girth unmatched. They don't have a standard pattern as with other species.  They, in our opinion and goal, should push aside some of the bigger animals in the pet trade.

Python brietensteini is said to have hit the U.S. ports in 1989.  We aquired our first animals in late 1990, a group which turned out to be 1 male and 3 females.  In 1993, we hatched our first clutch of 18, which we kept.  Python curtus was introduced a year later, and we aquired a 2.1 group. We hatched a clutch of 11 in 1993 and kept all of them as well.  We continued to purchase more of these animals, and then in 1995, we hatched the first known pattern mutation in Python brietensteini known as the granites.  Between 1993 and 1997, we produced a vast number of these animals to which we hope attributed to many of those seen today. 

Today, our breeding group is still a work in progress and we hope to be able to aquire animals to define.  Define ? Match similar types and breed them together to fix a type which could possibly be a locality.  Pumpkin heads, ivory stripes, granites, hypos and who knows what else.  Today is a new day for things yet to come.  God willing.