The Story:
First Choice Reptiles Was founded in 1999 by myself, (Nick Mole) and former business partner Adam Riley. We started as a wholesale vivarium supply and design company and bred several species of reptile and amphibian on the side. In 2003 we hit the show circuit and have done shows all over the eastern United States. In 2004 we began importing direct from several countries around the world specializing in chameleons. By late 2005 we began dealing with a well known reptile farm in Arusha, Tanzania who specializes in some of the rarest animals on the African continent. We are the only importers of F1 species of chameleon such as bradypodian uthmoelleri, kinyongia tenue, kinyonia oxyrhinum. We were the first in the US to import the spectacular blue geckos (lygodactylus williamsi) legally, as well as R. accuminatus (the rare montane pigmy chameleon), African mole snakes, Flap shell turtles (Cycloderma frenatum) and recently the very rare Gastropholis prasina (seen pictured on the top left corner of this site). In 2007 I traveled to Tanzania to personaly visit our supplier and hand select animals for export. In the picture above, Joe Beraducci (from MBT farms arusha, tanzania) and I are holding a fresh-from-the-bush African rock python. We always strive to bring our customers the newest animal on the market, even if they are not the most popular. We thrive on the oddball species and will continue to offer these animals, along with the more common and popular animals of the trade.
