About Us

I have been keeping, caring, and breeding reptiles for over 20 years.  It began in 1985 when I caught my first snake, a corn snake, near Miami, Florida.  A year later, I purchased a boa constrictor and several months later a reticulated python.  In 1987, I breed my first group of snakes, Northern water snakes, and first group of turtles, eastern box turtles.  These accomplishments set off a life-time love affair with reptiles.  Before going to college, I had already bred boa constrictors, hog island boas, ball pythons, kingsnakes, corn snakes, garter snakes, water snakes, green snakes, eastern painted turtles, spotted turtles, eastern mud turtles, diamondback terrapins, northern red-bellied turtles, eastern box turtles, and musk turtles.  Most of my breeding groups were sold-off to finance college and to free me of their burden.  In fact, a number of the breeding stocks of northern red-bellied turtles today originated from my stock.

 

In 1999, I got back into breeding reptiles with my colony of spotted turtles, diamondback terrapins, and northern red-bellied turtles.  By 2001, I began purchasing and selling diamondback terrapins caught by commercial fisherman.  In effort to “save” them from being eaten, I sold them to private breeders and turtle farms in Canada, Korea, Japan, Philippines, China, Germany, and Spain.  A rescue effort and hobby became a business in 2005 when World Herpafauna was founded.

 

In 2006, a second business was established called Chesapeake Terrapin.  Chesapeake Terrapin was short lived.  In early 2007, Democrats swept the governor house and the congress in Maryland.  They passed several laws, one of which restricted the sale and possession of diamondback terrapins.

 

I returned to breeding snakes with a group of ball pythons, gulf-hammock rat snakes, and corn snakes that I acquired in 2005 under World Herpafauna.  In 2007, World Herpafauna evolved into a breeding and reptile retail business.  World Herpafauna now sales in-house produced captive bred snakes and captive-bred snakes from other reputable snake enthusiasts.  We also offer select wild-caught native reptiles and imports that are seldom captive-bred.  We hope that these wild-caught and imports will produce new lines of captive breed wildlife.