Herpaxe Reviews: What Buyers Rated The Hook And The Tongs
Two products, two separate scores, and no pooling of one into the other. Someone buying the telescopic hook should see what hook buyers said rather than an average diluted by a different tool. The counts are small because these are two specific items, not a catalog with years of history behind it, and a small number is more useful to you than a large vague one.
Most of these buyers rated without writing anything, which is normal on any storefront. Those ratings are listed here too, with their dates, because they are part of the arithmetic that produces the average at the top of this page.
Snake hook: 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings
The hook is the compact tool of the two, so its buyers are keepers working with hatchlings, colubrids and young ball pythons rather than adult constrictors. The single written comment says exactly that, and it is the same line quoted in the sizing answer on the product page.
"Good for python hatchlings up to a year old"
Verified buyer · April 8, 2026 (translated)
| Buyer | Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Verified buyer | April 8, 2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | October 21, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | August 14, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | June 4, 2026 | ★★★★★ |
Four ratings, all five stars, one of them with a written comment.
Snake tongs: 4.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings
The folding tongs reach where a hook cannot, so their buyers are a wider mix: keepers, field herpers and people who wanted a spring-loaded grip for pulling things out of places a hand should not go. Three of them wrote a comment.
"Good product. I recommend"
Verified buyer · January 20, 2026
"Very nice."
Verified buyer · September 10, 2025
"Now let's go catch snakes."
Verified buyer · December 12, 2025
| Buyer | Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Verified buyer | January 20, 2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | September 10, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | December 12, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | August 22, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | September 5, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | October 19, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | December 6, 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | April 4, 2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Verified buyer | May 1, 2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Verified buyer | July 10, 2026 | ★★★★☆ |
Ten ratings: eight at five stars and two at four stars, which is what produces the 4.8 average.
Matching the scores to your setup
The averages above tell you what buyers thought of the tool they received. The sizing work sits alongside them, and we do it in public: the ladder on the hook page says which animals a 26 in telescopic hook with a 1.8 in bend handles and where it stops, and the tongs page carries the reach and grip figures for the animals that have outgrown a hook.
Read the scores, then read the ladder, and you will know before you order which of the two belongs in your bag. Our testing method sets out what we measure and how, so every figure you compare comes from the same protocol.
Verified reviews.
Buy the tool these ratings describe
The hook, the tongs and the bundle are below. Shipping is free, orders leave in 1 to 2 business days, and every order is covered by the 30-day money-back guarantee set out on our refund policy page.
New to hooking? Start with the technique guide, then read the snake catcher guide before the first time an animal turns up somewhere it should not be. The rest of our writing sits in the guides section. Questions about an order go to the contact page, delivery windows are on the shipping policy, and there is more about the shop itself on the about page.