January 17th - It looks like we are close to receiving our first eggs of the new year - a clutch from a F3 or F4 locality pure, unrelated, pair of Malaysians originally founded by Michael Kostakos. This is pretty exciting - it will be very interesting to see if there's a difference in customer interest between such great CB stock and our spectacular FH animals. We are sitting on a lot of baby blood pythons - we are raising them up a bit so that their potential is more obvious to prospective buyers. We still have the Gonyosoma oxycephala hatchlings available; they are three females, all now rocking and rolling. Unfortunately, our male Pygmy Mulga Monitor ate the females clutch. Oh well, the trials of monitor keeping. We have a surplus pair of Varanus acanthurus - they are a young guaranteed pair capable of excellent eggs and healthy hatchlings. Drop us a line if you have interest. Finally, here is an interesting link - though we do very little with chameleons anymore, there is hardly a more rare and exciting species than Parsonii. Visit this site for some excellent photos and info - www.calummaparsonii.com.

   December 5th - We hope you'll have had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We have a lot of spectacular Blood Pythons available now, and will have a notification list before Christmas. These are most likely the last Bloods we'll have available until the season begins again in late spring, so be sure to take a good long look at these. Also, we have the first CH Gonyosoma oxycephala of the year - 3, as yet unsexed, 2 week old animals. Once established and feeding we'll post them for sale on the kingsnake.com classifieds. Please let us know if you have any interest in them and we'll email you before we post them. We are nearly sold out of shippable Rhino ratsnakes - we should have more ready to go in January. Since our last update we have received our first Kimberley Rock Monitor eggs, and are incubating them now. Additionally, our Varanus gilleni indeed appear to be a pair, and the female is starting to appear swollen. Finally, we are looking for, and will pay top dollar, for a particular issue of the Vivarium Magazine, Volume #3, Issue #2. Please let us know if you have a copy available, or any suggestions as to where we might find one. Sorry, but we don't require any other issues at this time. We will be shipping through December 12th, but after that all shipments will be held here until after the New Year, shipping becomes entirely too unpredictable during the holiday package rush. Happy Holidays to you and yours.

   October 11th - Aimee Keyo Stone was born October 6th. This very exciting event has kept us busy over the past week - we apologize for any delays with emailing/ calls. We appreciate all the well wishes we've received. We have a lot of baby Rhino Ratsnakes left, as well as some geckos, and funky European and asian ratsnakes. In terms of geckos, we still have Ailuronyx, Rhacodactylus chahoua, and R. leachianus. For Ratsnakes, still most of the same, though we will be receiving captive bred Elaphe prasina for re-sale the week after next, inquire quickly if interested, as quantity is super limited. Here are some links I particularly like, and wholeheartedly recommend (not necessarily as a source of animals, but of cool pictures and interesting info). The Best US Monitor Forum (and classified area), A New Scientific Monitor Journal, Cool (But Small) Photos of Weird Asian Ratsnakes, Klaus' Asian Ratsnake Site, Nice Ratsnakes from a European Breeder, Australian Reptiles from an Australian Perspective, Rare Monitors in German, A Great Australian Python Breeder, Nice Womas, THE BEST Asian Ratsnake Forum, Great Monitor Resource, Australian Reptiles Forum, Great Woma and Blackhead Resource, Weigel's Site with Albino Olive Pythons and Rough-Scaled Pythons, The Biggest Kimberley Rock Monitor Fan Outside of Colorado. We will occasionally post more links, but definetely check these out; they are well worth the effort.

   September 21st - Daytona was refreshing; it's always good to meet new enthusiastss and hang out with old friends. Our move is nearly complete, at this oint we are basically just working on our trough setups. We are no longer working with V. griseus - CITES 1 headaches are not worth the trouble. I found them to be interesting, though otherwise unspectacular monitors. We are still working with Kimberley Rock Monitors, and have recently begun acquiring Pilbrara Rock Monitors (V. pilbarensis). They are somewhat less spectacular than the closely related glauerti, but they can be visually stunning, and are an even more manageable size. I saw my first V. kingorum recently - truly stunning. A tiny monitor (shortest body length of any monitor at maturity), their bodies feel soft like a uromastyx, with an ackie-like tail. We have tons of Rhynchophis/ Rhino Ratsnakes available, as well as some odds and ends colubrids like Elaphe subradiata, hypomelanistic Elaphe carinata, striped Elaphe situla, a pair of Dinodon rufozonatum, and various geckos. We are looking to expand our monitor groups - if you have quality caudolineatus, gilleni, glauerti, glebos, kingorum, tristis ssp., and yuwonoi.

   July 16th - Big news - High Plains Herpetoculture is now primarily operated out of two separate facilities in the greater Denver area as a result of the impending facility move later this Fall. We will continue to offer most of the same species, however, shipping dates may be more limited when orders contain animals from both facilities. We have both acquired and sold significant groups in the past month; we have juvenile (polliwog) Iranian Newts born at Tom's, we have sold most of our leopard gecko groups, and are transitioning to Vision rack system caging for small breeders in addition to our CagesByDesign displays.

   July 13th - It has been an exceedingly long five weeks. Thank you to all who have sent their condolences; it is certainly a shame, but we are trying our best to continue on. The weather has been incredibly hot here (as everywhere else it seems), so shipping has been a little touch and go of late, though this coming week should prove amiable. We have gotten 50 captive hatched blood pythons this month (37 three weeks ago), including a small group this past Wednesday. There are certainly some interesting animals in the group - including one blood that looks to be an anerythristic blood python. That is not to say a brown or yellow phase, but rather a red phase blood python whose red has been replaced by underlying blacks and purples with yellow patterning.

   May 7th - We are moving away from Dendrobatids towards other amphibian species, particularly newts and salamanders. We have acquired a significant group of Iranian Newts (Neurergus kaiserii), Serra de Arrabida locale Portugese Fire Salamanders (Salamandra salamandra gallaica), Hong Kong Warty Newts (Paramesiotriton hongkongensis), Leucistic, Albino, Melanistic and Wild Type Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum), Alpine Crested Newts (Mesotriton alpestris apuanas), and Danube Crested Newts (Triturus dobrogicus). We will continue to acquire more species, and if you have any rare or unusual species feel free to let us know. We will be selling off most, if not all of our remaining dendrobatid species, including adult breeder Red Bastimentos Dendrobates pumilio, adult breeder and froglet El Cope Dendrobates auratus, and adult Dendrobates azureus. These will be available either locally at the upcoming Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo on Saturday, or online at this site. We are receiving Yellow Acanthurus monitors and salamanders this week for our own collections, as well as Indonesian animals, hopefully baby blood and reticulated pythons for resale.

   May 3rd - Not many shipments this week, just some leopard gecko stuff. We have a bunch of gravid females from our leopard gecko colony, and should be offering Tremper Albinos, Tremper Sunglows, Super Hypo Carrot Tails, various Hets and some Tangerine Normals by mid-Summer. Our Rhino Ratsnakes are still paired up - we look to have gravid blue line females, gravid forth worth females bred by wild caught chinese males, and hopefully a wild caught female from a different wild caught male than the one paired with the fort worth animals. We will be exhibiting at the Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo next Saturday, May 12th. Visit the show's website here, and come out if you can make it. Our retail invenotry is relatively low at this point, but we'll be there to talk shop. This is one of the best shows in the Rocky Mountain region, and it is continually improving as more and more vendors and hobbyists come out to display their animals. We have also updated our Rhino Ratsnake page to include descriptions of the various lineages of the species in captivity - we hope this helps clarify any misconceptions with names and relationships of the lineages; please let us know if more needs to be done.

   April 26th - Thank you to all of those that have complimented us on the renovation of our site - it has been a fair bit of work, but we are pretty pleased. As an aside, because we are getting asked about availability of species for which we no longer have surplus pages - animals we have for sale in categories no longer here will be posted on the kingsnake.com classifieds in their appropriate section. We will continue to email out our availability via notification lists.

    This week was fairly busy shipping; we are finally done with pre-ordered Rhino Ratsnakes, and after all this time have one surplus male. No new retics or blood pythons this week, so it will be at least two weeks before we'll have more from Indo. We got in quite a few leopard geckos to add to our breeding stocks - we should have Tremper Albinos, Tremper Sunglows, Super Hypo Carrot Tails, and Normals/ Albino Hets available later on in the year. We have Halmahera Giant Gecko eggs cooking now and the Flying Geckos are showing excellent growth since hatching, they should be shippable within a month. We are working on getting some morph reticulated pythons soon, as well as a large group of hatchling Iran Desert Monitors (Varanus griseus).

   April 19th - We have updated this site to focus our external image on the projects we really care about. We are still working with some of the project animals formerly in our photo galleries, and we have some new stuff too, but as a work in progress we feel this adequately captures our interests. We are witnessing on and off copulations with our Australian Olive Pythons now; we have had them paired for a couple weeks, and probably will leave them together for a few more. We think part of our past failures with these may have been shifting males through females too quickly or at the wrong times; hopefully this will correct that. They are wonderful snakes; giants with good tempraments that feed well and don't have any special temperarture or humidity requirements.

   The real excitement of the month is developments with our Kimberley Rock Monitors; they have been breeding quite a bit of late and the female is growing and growing, refusing food, and acting far more confident.

   In terms of available animals we have relatively low surplus right now, but rest assured, the blood python season will start up again soon, as should retics including Sulawesi's and Ambons. We are expecting to recieve some USCB Rhacodactylus geckos amongst others within a month, and are also currently raising up for sale CB baby Flying Geckos, House Geckos, and Halmahera Giant Geckos.

  Our Rhino Ratsnakes are out of hibernation, feeding, and breeding. We are hopeful that this will prove to be a landmark season for our Rhinos - we hope to have at least three distinct lineages produced here, and potentially two more bloodlines available here from other's collections. We have seen copulations in our wild specimens - both in wild to wild breedings, and wild to Fort Worth Zoo lineage breedings.

   Finally, we have some very cool projects in the works we don't want to jinx - keep checking back, we will post developments here.