About Us

At 402 Exotics, small-batch breeding lets us focus on responsible husbandry, genetic diversity, and helping keepers make informed care decisions.

We’re Damon and Jami Hall, the people behind 402 Exotics. A privately operated reptile breeding project in Nebraska. We maintain a varied collection, with intentional pairings and long-term goals for the species and lineages we work with.

Damon brings 28 years of experience in machining, aviation inspection, and metrology. That background shapes our approach to enclosure design, environmental monitoring, automation, and repeatable care practices. He manages our infrastructure, administrative work, and breeding-project planning.

Jami brings 25 years of experience in strategic planning and purchasing. She performs much of the daily feeding and cleaning and is our primary animal salesperson. Her regular work with the animals provides the observations that help us evaluate how our care systems are working.

Our breeding decisions consider health, genetic diversity, known ancestry, and the long-term direction of each project. We value preserving useful lineages alongside developing the traits that interest us. Honest representation and responsible placement are central to that work.

Our husbandry develops through research, observation, conversations with experienced breeders, and deliberate adjustments. We document what works in our collection and distinguish our own practices from information that remains uncertain.

The care guides and practical tools on this site are extensions of that approach. They share our methods, explain the reasoning behind them, and help keepers make informed decisions about their own animals.

Experienced keepers have generously shared their knowledge with us. Passing that knowledge forward is part of what we want 402 Exotics to contribute to herpetoculture.