WE ARE NOW OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK TO TAKE YOUR ORDERS.

Due to the importance of accurate and up-to-date inventory, and given the customized nature of ordering snakes, we do not have a secure site for automated ordering - other than the PayPal payment system. If you know we have the animals you seek in stock and do not have any questions, you may click on the PayPal icon to pay virtually from your PayPal account. Only domestic customers may pay virtually. International orders must be paid via direct bank wire transfers or universal money orders. If you have questions or prefer to place your order via telephone, call (830)964-3200 to speak to a reptile consultant. Please, have your credit or debit card information ready when you call. Again, only U.S. customers may pay via PayPal or credit/debit cards.

To those preferring to pay by check or money order, our mailing address is:

Besides corns, we offer many other colubrid and boid hatchlings.

We accept the following credit and debit cards:

Or PayPal to account Cornsnakes@aol.com

We offer door-to-door delivery service which is next-day in most cases.

WINTER SHIPPING Until further notice, during our winter shipping season, domestic, next day, door-to-door U.S. shipping will be only Mondays and Wednesdays each week that does not have a conflicting holiday or reptile expo. Tailored for each order, all animals are custom packed in new boxes, and include applicable temperature modifiers (heat and/or gel packs) relative to anticipated weather and respective shipping routes. With over 35 years of packing and shipping experience, we guarantee live arrival if delivery is not delayed by the customer's failure to be available for the first delivery attempt by Fed Ex (or their contractors). Our winter shipping prerequisites are: - destination (and Fed Ex Hub in Memphis) night temperatures must be above 14 degrees F. - destination (and Fed Ex Hub in Memphis) airport must be operating normally - destination city streets must facilitate delivery truck traffic If temps are below 14 degrees F, but above 5 degrees F, and if city streets and airports are open to normal traffic, we will ship - provided the customer picks up the package at a Fed Ex facility. In this way, we avoid the extra exposure to cold temperatures in the delivery trucks. Enjoy the photo gallery of animals and important visual aids for snake keepers. See the link <--- there on the left side of this page? We'll be adding images to it constantly. The animals pictured there are not necessarily representatives of types we're offering for sale at this time. Many are works-in-progress and when we begin to predictably produce them in sufficient quantities, they'll be added to your price listings. We just want to share the beauty of these animals with you since you can't be here to see them in person. We hope you'll enjoy the gallery and if you ever have any suggestions of how we can make it better, please let us know. Our new flat-rate shipping fee is $35.00 for Fed Ex, priority overnight shipping to any U.S. location. Our regular shipping days are Mondays and Wednesdays, for next day delivery in most areas this time of year. Due to potential shipping delays, in special cases where we agree to ship on a Thursday, the live-arrival guarantee does not apply. We still guarantee live delivery for Monday and Wednesday shippings, provided the first delivery attempt is successful. This guarantee only applies to packages directly handed to the customer by the Fed Ex driver, and those personally picked up at Fed Ex stations (including most Kinko's locations). Delivery waivers that permit Fed Ex to leave the package outside your door negate eligibility for our live arrival guarantee. We prefer not to ship on the days immediately before or after major holidays. Exceptions will be made on a one-by-one basis. Our mailing address is South Mountain Reptiles, P.O. Box 1952, Canyon Lake, TX 78133. If you need to speak to us on the phone, call 830-964-3200. We wish to thank all of you who helped make it possible for us to produce all the new and exciting corn snake morphs we have. Also for your comments and suggestions that made up a large portion of our new book CORN SNAKES IN CAPTIVITY. Don Soderberg

• Domestic orders are usually shipped via door-to-door service, precluding the hassle of picking it up at your airport. This domestic door-to-door (usually next day delivery) shipping and handling service is available throughout most of the contiguous U.S. and will be prepaid prior to shipping. We can ship up to 20 neonate snakes per box for $35.00. This shipping fee does NOT apply to each animal in you order, so retail customers will never be charged more than our $35.00 flat-rate fee for domestic orders (within the contiguious U.S). Those animals shipped via door-to-door carriers will be guaranteed to arrive alive only if the package is personally handed to the customer (or an agent of the customer) on the first delivery attempt. Packages not handed directly to the customer (or agent of customer) by express customer request or via signature waivers with the carrier, are exempt from our live-delivery guarantee. In cases of delayed deliveries (or other problems associated with shipping), please contact us at (830)964-3200. As the shipper, we can expedite delivery more quickly here than you.
• You may alternately choose airline cargo to your nearest major airport for domestic orders. This premium counter-to-counter service must be prepaid prior to shipping. At this time, the cost for airline cargo (Delta Dash) is $85.00. Airline service is only offered by appointment since we are located very far from an airport, and only ship with them once a month.
• If your package is shipped via the airlines, all reptiles in domestic orders will be guaranteed to arrive alive if picked up within four (4) hours of flight arrival and if the temperature is above 40 degrees F.. There are no guarantees by us for shipments delayed or lost by the airline carrier, but claims may be made directly to the airline carrier. In the event of dissatisfaction, you are responsible for notifying us within 48 hours of flight arrival. If you elect to return the reptile(s), you will be responsible for all expenses required to properly and safely return the reptile(s).
• "Derzeit sind wir leider nicht in der Lage unsere Tiere nach Europa zu exportieren. Sollten wir uns entscheiden eine Exporterlaubnis zu beantragen und den Versand außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten wieder aufzunehmen, werden wir diesen Hinweis entfernen und gerne ihre Bestellungen entgegennehmen. Wir bedanken uns im Voraus für ihr Verständnis."

If you purchase a snake that is heterozygous (hetero)(het) for a particular trait, the snake you receive will not look like the recessive trait with the higher price. For example, an amelanistic corn is shades of red with red eyes, but a het for amelanistic is only carrying the hidden gene for producing amelanistic corns. The het in this case will look somewhat like a normal corn with shades of black, brown and tan with dark eyes. When the het amelanistic is bred to another het amelanistic with the same genes or with the homozygous amelanistic, you will get some amelanistics from that breeding. In the case of breeding the same het you will get approximately 25% amelanistics. If you breed the het with an amelanistic, you will get approximately 50% amelanistics.