State of the Hognose Industry

State of the Hognose Industry - Week Ending 3-Oct-2026

October 6, 2026

State of the Hognose Industry - Week ending 26-Sep-2026

October 6, 2026

Inventory just notched its eighth straight weekly high, four storefronts went from a handful of listings to real inventory almost overnight, and the video side was genuinely quiet — a fairly ordinary week wrapped around one loud number.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week Ending 19-Sep-2026

September 19, 2026

A breeder may have documented the first western hognose triplets, and MorphMarket inventory just set a new high for the year. Two very different kinds of "first" in one week.

State of the Hognose Industry - week ending 12-Sep-2026

September 12, 2026

Quiet week for hognose content — three videos worth your time and no new legislative news — but the market did not sit still. Inventory rose for a fifth straight run and sales over the past week ran well ahead of the August pace.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week ending 5-Sep-2026

September 7, 2026

Ben Morrill of Rare Genetics spent the first seven minutes of a podcast this week on hognose shed testing, and it's the most substantive update we've had on the test pipeline in months. Meanwhile nine stores restocked at once, Antarctic quietly took over the top of MorphMarket, and Maryland's native-herp rules moved from "expected eventually" to "on the local news."

State of the Hognose Industry - Week ending 29-Aug-2026

August 29, 2026

The largest hognose store on MorphMarket is still gone a week later, the supply hole it left is now visible in the trait counts, and the community conversation about why has gotten loud. Separately, and much more pleasantly, the first real published explanation of how Antarctic and Arctic relate to each other is worth your time if you're anywhere near that gene.

State of the Hognose Industry - week ending 22-Aug-2026

August 22, 2026

The Daytona footage kept coming all week, so if you couldn't make the drive there's now a fair amount of the show on YouTube. On MorphMarket, active inventory pushed to its highest point we've recorded — helped along by one seller putting nearly 150 animals on the board in three days.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week ending 9-Aug-2026

August 12, 2026

A quiet news week, but a full slate on YouTube — a fresh clutch-hatching video, a full walkthrough of the just-wrapped Southeast Reptile Expo, and a genetics debate involving JMG Reptile on the Trap Talk network. Daytona's National Reptile Breeders' Expo is up next, this coming weekend.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week ending 1-Aug-2026

August 3, 2026

This week: MorphMarket's vlog team leaned all the way into egg-laying season with three new episodes, the Southeast Reptile Expo lands in Duluth this weekend, and July closes out as the first fully "complete" month on the market pulse since the delayed-recheck system came online.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week Ending 25-Jul-2026

July 26, 2026

*This week: a new hatching-tips episode from MorphMarket's vlog team, JMG Reptile going head-to-head on genetics on a live podcast, a clutch-size debate spreading through the community, a federal rule change that could matter for the pending Southern Hognose decision, and the next marquee expo is a week out.*

State of the Hognose Industry - Week Ending 18-Jul-2026

July 18, 2026

This week: a wild natural-history find, a gene that's about to make its MorphMarket debut, two new breeding videos worth your time, and a pricing board that looks a little different than usual. Here's what's happening across the hognose world this week.

State of the Hognose Industry - Week Ending 11-Jul-2026

July 11, 2026

JMGreptile's new breeding-tips video, a genuinely soft western hognose market, and a federal proposal touching a different hognose species — plus this week's MorphMarket pulse.