We can’t tell you all how much we appreciate the love and support we’ve received over the last couple years. From the beginning, we have aspired to make Mortal Coil far more than another pet breeder. Our goal has always been to create something that is inclusive, educational, proactive, and that brings people together under an often new-found love of these animals.

To that end, we have many new adventures planned ahead. We have come as far as we have not by our own effort alone, but through the support of people often outside the reptile community who have appreciated the work we do and who’ve believed in us. As we come ever closer to doing this thing that we do full time, we’d like to give both an opportunity to those who want to help us along the way, whether they’re reptile keepers or not.

With that, we announce that we’ve launched our very own Patreon. Whether you’re a supporter from outside the reptile community who wants to make a positive impact, or a die-hard reptile enthusiast looking for an inside track on exclusive deals, $5 a month gets you (first and foremost) our undying gratitude, but also:

-Patreon member-only deals.

-Early access: We will be making animals available to our Patreon supporters before anyone else. You’ll have a chance to get them before they ever hit the website or MorphMarket.

-Access to our Discord channel

-Name a Snake: Want us to name a snake after you, a loved one, an enemy, favorite TV character? Patreon members will get the chance to name a snake as clutches hatch each season.

-Name a Rat: Want us to name a rat after someone and feed it to a snake? We’ve got you, and we’ll film it. (NOTE: We do not do live feeding and will not create live feeding videos).

-Behind the scenes looks at our upcoming adventures that we won’t share anywhere else, not even on our Facebook community

-Exclusive livestreams. Want to watch them hatch LIVE? Want exclusive live Q&As? This will be the place for them!

-Shout outs. Much of what we have planned is going to be filmed and we are going to make every effort to express our gratitude in the form of a shoutout at every opportunity.Please note that the more production involved perks will take time, but THEY ARE COMING!

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70019251

We now offer Afterpay for purchases over $500, both online and in person. Just ask us for more info!

About a year ago, a show promoter handed us a small laminated QR code at the show. It was just a simple link to a Google Form with a few basic fields for customer information and details of general guarantees and liabilities to protect our business and the show. It was a great idea. Soon after, we began using a similar thing for all of our sales, both at shows and online. Over the last year, the agreements have matured as the needs became more defined.

It hasn’t always been well received, but it usually has been. Unfortunately, there are a few who do not want to engage in conversations with a breeder who asks questions to ensure their preparedness for a particular animal, much less to jump through even a small additional hoop like signing a purchase agreement. So why do we do it? It’s because striving for the absolute best outcomes for our animals and customers is the right thing to do. We want every keeper who buys from us to be successful and happy in their purchase. Beyond that, by following and communicating a few best practices in every transaction, we help to protect our animals, our customers, our business, and the future of herpetoculture so that we can keep providing our best year after year.

To that end, we’d like to provide all our prospective customers with samples of the purchase agreement, both as used for online sales and the Google Form we use at shows.

We welcome your feedback. Tell us what you think.

Online Animal Purchase Agreement

Show Reptile Responsible Keeper Agreement

If you’d like to be on the wait list for upcoming clutches…

1) Send us a chat message or an email.

That’s the easiest way for us to keep and track a record of your inquiry and to get back to you. Facebook comments get lost, especially comments in groups. Talk to us directly, and we will get you on the list.

2) No deposit needed.

We do not accept a dime for any animal that’s not ready to go. There are never guarantees of what we will have available, people do change their minds about purchases, and it’s just much better to wait for the animals to be ready for their homes before any money changes hands.

3) We don’t know when they will be ready.

Reptile breeding is an organic process. The snakes decide when they breed. They decide when they lay. They hatch when they hatch. We rely on our expertise and experience to give us the best possible outcomes, but ultimately we do not have control over everything. We make sure that every animal we offer is feeding consistently on frozen thawed meals before it’s listed, and sometimes that process takes time.

4) We will contact you when they are close to ready.

After an animal has had a couple sheds and seems to be feeding on frozen thawed consistently, we start to reach out to customers on the wait lists to prepare for arrangements. This is usually around their third meal for most species, and we usually consider them ready after their fifth meal, by which point they have often had a third shed. We consider an animal with five consistent meals and at least two sheds ready to go.