Welcome to Seacoast Herpetological!

Seacoast Herpetological is a joint venture undertaken by a couple of friends who have both been keeping and breeding reptiles for years. We each have a couple of species which we specialize in and each of us have kept and currently keep a wide variety of different animals from 2 inch geckos to 15 foot snakes. Both of us have loved reptiles our whole lives.

About me

Why Reptiles?

I have been absolutely fascinated with reptiles and ambhibians ever since I was a young kid stomping around in the swamps behind my house trying to catch as many frogs, bugs, snakes and turtles as I possibly could. I still remember as a kid, probably around 10 years old, my brother and I were wading in a little pond and he got bitten by a painted turtle (which he'd probably stepped on) and I, rather than going to help him out, dove after the turtle, getting myself covered in mud and muck but I got the turtle!

Field herping is still something that I absolutely love doing to this day, one of my goals in life is to find and take pictures of every species of snake native to New Hampshire. My dad always used to tell me that You can spend the rest of your life studying what you can find in the backyard. Well, when I was 5 years old I thought he was crazy, now I see how true that statement is!

My field herping life list, the species that I just have to see for myself in the wild someday, every herper has one!

• Local species:

  Eastern Hognose

  Heterondon platirhinos

  Timber Rattlesnake

  Crotalus horridus

  Black Ratsnake (I still have not seen a single black rat in New Hampshire)

  Elaphe obsoleta

• Worlwide In all honesty there's too many to count but here's a few that stand out to me:

  Rhinoceros Viper - Africa

  Bitis nasicornis

  File Snake - Africa

  Genus Mehelya

  Boomslang - Africa

  Dispholidus typus

More info and features to come later (as I learn them)!