PLEASE NOTE: All material on the web pages of this domain are copyrighted material and
cannot be used in any other form without the express written permission of the author.
In case you are wondering, "cv." means "cultivar".
Short for "cultivated variety". This term is widely used when
referring to mutations in horticulture and I think it is an accurate term
for the various color and pattern morphs I am offering.
All specimens are subject to prior sale unless held by a 20 percent
deposit. All deposits will be promptly refunded if the specimens ordered do not
become available. If the specimens ARE available, any cancelled orders will
result in a forfeited deposit. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS
POLICY. Phone calls or e-mail to determine availability are strongly encouraged.
All specimens are sold on a deposit-held, first come, first served basis.
Any cancellation of a prepaid order will result in a 20 percent cancellation
fee being deducted from the refunded total. And changes that result in a refund
will also incur a cancellation fee totalling 20 percent of the refund total.
Please note that at this time I do NOT ship outside of the U.S.A.
Prices listed are for each specimen. All snakes are preferably sold
as sexual pairs (1 male & 1 female), with individuals of either sex
only being available if a surplus exists of that sex.
Effective immediately, there will be a 25 percent surcharge for all lone females or extra females added to a pair. For instance, if you order 1.2 (a male and 2 females), one male and one female will be charged at the regular price, and one female will have 25 percent of the price added to the total. Getting a lone female of one cultivar and a lone male of another does not exempt the female from this surcharge. In this sort of instance, I would still be in jeopardy of having a shortage of females in the cultivar and this would not be offset by a surplus in another. If someone wants a pair of Butter Corns, but I only have males left, my having extra Hypo Okeetee females will do me absolutely no good.
NOTICE!
CURRENT SHIPPING OPTIONS
METHOD
GUARANTEED
TRANSIT TIME
DELIVERY TO
COST
PAYMENT
Door-to-Door
Yes*
Next Day usually before noon
Home
$60
Prepaid.
Delta 1rst Priority
Yes*
Same Day (usually!)
Airport
Actual shipping charges ~$100
C.O.D.
* The guarantee of live delivery will be born exclusively by SerpenCo. The carrier chosen to deliver the package is not going to be responsible and the customer is asked to PLEASE do not contact them about any problems. Any problems you experience are to be directed to us and us alone. One stipulation for shipping this way is that someone MUST be at home to accept delivery of the package. There will be NO guarantee of live delivery if the package is left on the doorstep because someone was not at home to accept it. In a like fashion, all shipments made via Delta must be picked up within 2 hours of the flight arrival time at the destination, otherwise the guarantee of live arrival is voided.
All orders placed and paid for with a credit card will have the credit card
charged IMMEDIATELY when the order has been accepted. I know this sounds
harsh, but please check in my SPECIAL MESSAGES page for the reasoning
behind this decision. This means that any orders cancelled after placing the order
will incur a 20 percent fee as a nonrefundable deposit. This is because the bank
charges me for these transactions and I really don't think YOUR change of heart
should take money out of my pocket.
Satisfaction of an animal's health is guaranteed on specimens
purchased at full listed prices for 30 days after you have received your order.
Any retail purchase may be returned for a full refund, replacement, or credit, for
any reasonable cause of dissatisfaction related to the health of an animal, as long as
I am notified and the order is shipped back to me within 30 days with the freight
charges prepaid. Shipping expenses are non-refundable. There is no further liability
on my part beyond what is noted above.
The prices shown on this list are subject to change without notice.
This is a retail price list. Many of the specimens on this list
are available at wholesale prices in large quantities during late July,
August, and September. Generally this applies to animals that are "right
out of the egg", unsexed, and are exempt from my 30 day guarantee.
Every year I get numerous requests to provide photographs of the individual animals I am providing for sale. I truly am sorry that I often lack the time to be able to provide this service. It's simply a matter of this service must necessarily take time away from something else that I have to do. So, not trying to sound mercenary, but just trying to reflect the real costs of my time for such tasks, I am offering digital photographs that I can either email directly to you or post on one of my servers and provide links to them. I need to charge $10 per photo for this service, paid in advance and non-refundable. I hate to have to do this, but I have to put a value on my time. Figuring on the time it takes to prepare the camera, set up the shooting area, find the animal needed for the photograph, get the animal actually photographed, download the images from the camera to the computer (don't even THINK your one and only photograph is going to do the job!), select the best photo and crop it to size, then either email it or upload it to a server, I have easily put an hour or more into this effort.
In a similar vein, I often get requests for geneology or parentage records, or hatching dates for the animals I send out. This takes time out of my already busy schedule and I cannot continue to do this without considering the costs to me. As such, I have to charge $10 per animal to do any of the record checks that are requested of me. Paid in advance. Before you get uptight about this policy, please consider it from my perspective. These sorts of requests, while legitimate, take time out of my life. Time that I need to be spending on something that needs to be done around here, or time I could be spending on something I would like to be doing rather than what you would like me to be doing for you. If this sort of information is important to you, then certainly you should not mind paying me for my time, which is important to me, to look up those records and provide them for you. After all, my looking up those records is at a cost to me, so all I'm doing is passing that cost on back to the people making these sorts of requests. Bear in mind that these are simple records and data checks, and nothing extensive. I once had someone suggest that I should provide all records for the animals he purchases back through 5 generations. When I determined the actual number of records I would have to research for each and every animal, I politely declined his business.
All photographs contained in this page are copyrighted material
and can only be used elsewhere with the written consent of SerpenCo/Rich
Zuchowski.
A few years ago I wrote an article concerning field collection of reptiles.
It's rather lengthy, but you might find it of interest if you spend any time in the
field looking for a new addition to your collection. It's called
Nowhere To Run,
Nowhere To Hide.
Every year I go through the disappointment of pulling infertile eggs from some
of my breeder female's cages. This brought to mind something I've been planning on
writing for some time now so I finally just sat down and wrote it. It's called
Murphy's Laws of Snake Breeding.
Sort of a list of things to expect while breeding your snakes.