Hello, welcome to Captive Bred Tricolors. Like many of you I have been into snakes and herps my whole life. I've been keeping all sorts of herps since I was 6 years old, that was when I caught my first snake, a Garter Snake in my backyard at my house in San Bernardino. Well the addiction never stopped, at eight years old my family and I moved to the San Bernardino Mountains, Twin Peaks to be exact. I was so excited because I knew that was home to my favorite snake, the California Mountain King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata parvirubra), it took a few years to find my first one though, but I'll never forget it, 1991. I was 11 years old flipping rocks in search of anything that moved and to my surprise there was my 1st. zonata. Now over 10 years later I still get very excited when I see them in the wild, the only difference now is I know where to find them, so its nice to get to see them when I want to.

   I think that's where my interest in pyros comes from, as in CA. you can not breed and sell zonatas, so I went with my 2nd. favorite snake, the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana pyromelana) which has worked out better anyway because I'm very much into color and pattern morphs and pyro pyro has had some very exciting color and pattern morphs show up in the last few years. Which means lots of new and interesting things to be seen in pyro pyro. I also have a keen interest in other mountain kings as well. The pyro pyros cousin the Tarahumara Mtn. King (Lampropeltis pyromelana knoblochi), the Baja Mtn. King (Lampropeltis zonata agalma), and the Durango Mtn. King (Lampropeltis mexicana greeri). The next 5 years will be very exciting in the world of pyros as double hets for ghost, snow, and hybino will be produced (there is already a possible "hybino" pyro alive now, it is owned by Terry Dunham and there is pics of it on his website www.albinotricolors.com). The Applegate phase pyro will also play a big role in new pyro colors as that phase could be crossed into the albino, anery (hypoerythristic), and hypomelanistic, creating double hets for hypo-applegate, anery-applegate, and an albino-applegate. I hope everybody else is as excited to see these new mutations as I am. Check back here to see how things come along with these plans.

   My other interest is in the Honduran Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis). I don't think I need to explain why, as this is a favorite among all herpers. With its great size and feeding response and all the color morphs out there makes it a great species to work with. I know some people think "haven't all the morphs of hondos been produced already?" well yes and no. I think this year Terry Dunham will test breed his possible hybino's to see if they are in fact "hybino's" (a snake showing both albino and hypo), but there's only been a couple handfulls of ghost hondos produced, so we will continue to see better examples of ghosts over the next couple years, the snow hondo has proved to have a few differnt color patterns, and there still haven't been pinstriped anerythristics. So there are still lots of new and interesting things with hondos too.

   Please enjoy your visit to Captive Bred Tricolors and if you have any questions about this site please send an e-mail to: lakai07@aol.com. Also if you have any questions about pyromelana husbandary or feeding techniques feel free to give me an e-mail and I'll answer all questions to the best of my knolwedge. Take care and thanks for taking the time to check out this site.

Jeff Teel,
Captive Bred Tricolors