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I was born in 1959 and grew up in Tampa, Florida. Back in the mid-sixties there were plenty of places to hunt snakes. Snake hunting was a favorite pastime of mine growing up. The prime specimens at the time were Florida Kings, Corn Snakes, and every once in a while, an Indigo. I would usually keep what I caught for a year or so then release them back into the wild. When I was fifteen I caught a 5- 1/2 foot Eastern Diamond Back Rattler. The thing was huge. I knew there was no way my mother was going to go for the idea of my keeping it as a pet, so I kept it in the back yard in a steel garbage can. Three days later, my mother goes out looking for an extra can for the garbage, lifted the lid and there's "bad boy". Needless to say she freaked. I had to come off every snake I had. It took awhile to smooth things over. Cypress Creek began in 1995 with the acquisition of several Albino Ball Pythons, and het for Albinos. Jamie Quick and I bred a female of mine to one of his males to produce the first clutch of 100% Albino Ball Pythons. By holding back everything I produced until 1998, I was able to really launch things that year having over 24 albino balls. I began to acquire more rare and exotic additions to my collection. An Axanthic Ball Python from Mike Jollif has provided me with double het for Snowball Ball Pythons (two pair of which are breeding even as I write this). Piebalds from Peter Kahl have produced more Pieds, hets and double het for Albino/Piebald Ball Pythons. Pastel Jungles from the Greg Graziani line fill out the picture for projects like Pastel/Albino and Pastel/Piebalds. Along with the Ball Pythons I've also developed a nice collection
of Boas, including Albinos (Brian Sharp line) and Guyanans acquired
from several different sources. My Australian Pythons include Black
Heads, Diamonds, and Womas. The Black Heads being the only ones
I have yet to produce (hopefully this will be the year for them).
Anyway things are starting to really click around here so I decided
it's high time to get this web site up and running. Sincerely, Tom Carlton |