SnAchen Exotics (pronounced Sna'ken) is a husband/wife organization that has started out as a hobby. Our focus is on more obscure species of boas hoping to produce more of these snakes in captivity and preserving the populations in the wild. As time goes on, we hope to acquire new species into our collection. We encourage all that purchase snakes from us (or anyone else ) first to do plenty of research to provide safe and healthy homes for their animals.

My husband and I met on the internet. He originally from just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. I was living outside D.C.. It wasn't long we before we decided to get married. There were no two people on the planet more meant for each other than us. Or so it seems to us anyway.

In the year 2000, my husband's childhood love for snakes came to reality with a pet. It was the simple easy to care for Anery Corn Snake. Soon to follow was a Red Tail Boa that had very little, if any, handling. Kind by nature he was determined to help the animal and sacrificed flesh to many bites. The snake did get better. But finally in the end, he took it back to the pet store and they bought it back. In the meantime, he purchased a very docile male Hogg Island Boa. This was a bit more like it. With credit from the pet store for the Red Tail, he decided to purchase a female Hogg with the intention to one day breed them.

A year later I went to Denmark. I was introduced to these snakes and was fascinated. We went to the pet store in Denmark. The Red Tail was still there although now a breeding project for the store. The place was called Zoo City. It was awesome. There was a shark tank and a whole floor dedicated to birds in huge cages. I was hooked.

In 2002 Jim came to the States to visit and built me a cage. I purchased a male (or so I thought) Snow Corn at a local Herp Show. Not a month later I purchased a male Bolivian Boa. It was our desire to have a beautiful gray snake. It was only 3 weeks old when I received it. I soon became confident and was bold enough to then go ahead and buy a pair of Brazilian Rainbow Boas. This pair was especially nice looking with a possibility to start a new strain of "double crescents" if they throw offspring that carry the same traits. Now we were on the path of being future breeders and needed to finalize our collection by buying a female for the Bolivian. We were in deeper than we thought so we waited a year to find a female. Finally, we got one.

Over time we inherited a male amelanistic corn and just recently purchased a Hypo Lavender Corn. The corn snakes are a side project since we have to deal with their eggs. We also like having these easy keepers around so when we meet people new to snakes, we have a nice animal to introduce them into the reptile world.

With our community growing so large, we purchased professional cages from Boaphile Plastics. Our breeding projects are in the making and so is our web site. We hope to have happy herping for many years to come. We don't expect to make a living from our breeding experiences, but we do hope that we can turn over enough to keep it going and always improve and experiment with new projects.

Thank you for visiting our web site.

Jim and Heather Achen