About

My name is Matthew Meckfessel, and I’m currently a PhD student at the University of North Texas majoring in biochemistry. As much as I enjoy the lab, I’ve always been interested snakes. Like most in this hobby, from an early age I was always fascinated by reptiles, especially snakes. After saving my allowance for what seemed like forever, I finally scrapped together enough money and bought my first cornsnake from a local pet shop when I was 11 years old. I was immediately hooked.

After a few years, a teacher at the school I was attending had a pair of female snakes and we bred mine to his and hatched about 50 snakes. Now I was hooked on both corn snakes and breeding them. I kept two of those back and traded in several of them to the same pet shop for a snow corn that I still have to this day! Over the years I began to acquire different morphs and to create some using my own projects. I've personally always considered it important to me to not let my collection grow so big that the snakes don't become nothing more than a number and remain pets. I've always put quality before quantity in everything I do with reptiles.

Several years ago, I decided that I wanted something "fancy" to house and display some of my snakes in. Previously, I had only used standard glass aquariums that had been convered for reptile use. After much reading on the material I decided to build a custom wooden enclosure. I actually ended up building two of them. Building those brought a whole new sense of satisfaction; to actually build something useful and that looked (what I think) pretty good. I really got the carpenter's itch and continue to build custom vivariums and racks and enjoy doing it immensely.

If you have any questions, commends, and/or concerns, don't hesitate to contact me. Doesn't matter if it's about corns, cages, etc, I'll be glad you answer and help out any way I can.