Interview.
iHerp Australia catches up with ground-breaking morph breeder
Wayne Larks, and his wife Deb, from ‘Morelia Magic’.
iHerp: Wayne, you guys produce some amazing
animals. We were blown away at the Brisbane expo last
year, but can you remember your earliest experience
with reptiles?
hated them.
Every time we went on holidays I would keep looking
for reptiles. We used to go camping a lot, and my uncle
and aunt had a shack at Tiddy Widdy, which was one
Wayne Larks: I grew up in Adelaide. When I was
of the best places to find death adders. We’re talking
about six or seven I found a Red-bellied Black Snake on the 1980s. My family was still scared of snakes, so I
Semaphore Beach. I picked it up, walked back into the would collect lizards which I kept in outdoor tubs for
caravan and scared the hell out of my parents. I was
the holidays (my parents wouldn’t let them indoors).
obsessed with reptiles at that age, but my parents
Them I would let them go.
‘Super’ hypo. All images by Rochelle
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