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          All animals pictured on this page are in my collection, and owned by me.  The photos were taken by me, unless otherwise labeled.  I'm still looking for many species I do not have, and mates for single specimens I do have.  I'm mainly looking for Asian Naja species, and O. hannah specimens.  If you have something for sale, please contact me, at the link above.

Quick List Click Button's in left hand column to go that specie, or just scroll down to see all species.
Asian Cobras
.	.0 . 0.	Chinese Cobra  (Formosa Island Cobra)	Naja atra
	.14...12.	Monocled Cobra  1.2 Normal, 1.1 Albino, 1.0 Blizzard, 1.1 Poss Dbl het Leucistic/Sunset, 2.0 Formosa, 3.3 Leucistic, 3.3 Suphan, 2.2 Sunset, Super Sunset, & Banded Sunset.	Naja kaouthia
r	0 . 0	Burmese Spitting Cobra	Naja mandalayensis
	1 . 2	Indian Spectacled Cobra  (Sri Lankan Cobra, Black Pakistan Cobra)	Naja naja
	3 . 3	Central Asian Cobra  (Russian Cobra, Oxus Cobra)	Naja oxiana
r	0 . 0	Northern Philippine Cobra	Naja philippinensis
r	0 . 0	Andaman Cobra	Naja sagittifera
r	0 . 0	Southeastern Philippine Cobra  (Samar Cobra)	Naja samarensis
	4 . 5	Indochinese Spitting Cobra  (Black & White Spitting Cobra, Isan Spitting Cobra)	Naja siamensis
	5 . 3	Southern Indonesian Spitting Cobra  (Javan Spitting Cobra)	Naja sputatrix
	5 . 4	Equatorial Spitting Cobra  (Yellow Phase)   (Sumatran, Black, Malayan, Golden Spitting Cobra)	Naja sumatrana
King Cobras
	2 . 1	King Cobra  (Malaysian Locale)	Ophiophagus.hannahmmmmmmmmmmm
	0 . 1	King Cobra  (Indonesian Locale)

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8 . 7   Naja kaouthia  -  Monocellate Cobra, Monocled Cobra

(Suphan Cobra, Naja suphanensis)

1 . 2   Normal  (& het Albino)

CB'08 Male Het Albino

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CB'08 Female Het Albino

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AD Female

Adult Female

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          This CB'08 male and female were picked up in a trade on 11/19/08.  Growing like weeds and eating Frozen Thawed.  These have the normal color and monocle hood markings.  One parent of these was supposedly an albino, making these heterozygous for Albino.  I believe the word "kaouthia" is pronounced "Kee o tee ah".  If I'm wrong, please correct me.  

1 . 1     Albino Morph

AD Male Albino

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CB'07 Albino Female

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          The first male is a 4'+ adult, and was picked up on 04/26/08.  The CB'07 female was acquired on 05/02/08.  I purchased the 5'+ female on 03/06/09.  Turned out to actually be another male.  Probably the most commonly kept and bred specie and morph of Cobra in the world.  We actually see more Albino Monocled Cobras on the market than normal Monocled Cobras.

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1 . 0     Blizzard Morph

CB'08 Blizzard Male

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1 . 1     Poss. Double Het Leucistic / Sunset

CB'05 Female Poss. Dbl Het

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CB'06 Male Poss. Dbl Het

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          The CB'05 female hatched out on 02/22/05, and I acquired her on 11/20/05.  The CB'06 male hatched out on 02/22/06, and I acquired him on 09/06/07.  These are Monocled Cobras with an aberrant hood marking similar to that of the Formosa Island Cobra (N. atra).  They are not a N. kaouthia x N. atra cross.  These are 66.6% Possible het for Leucistic or Sunset, or 33.3% Het for both traits.

          This pair bred and the female produced 17 good eggs on 12/18/09.

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2 . 0     Formosa Island Morph

AD Male Formosa

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CB'10

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          This male is a Monocled Cobra with the Formosa Island Cobra hood markings.  Many Formosa morph Monocled Cobras (Naja kaouthia) are being advertised as Formosa Island Cobras (Naja atra).  Do the scale counts and be sure of what your buying.

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3 . 3     Leucistic Morph

CB'10 Male

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CB'10 Female

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CB'10 female

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CB'10 Male

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CB'10 Female

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CB'10 Male

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2 . 2     Sunset Morph (Including Hets, Super Suns, and Bandeds)

CB'09 Male Sunset

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CB'09 female Poss het Sunset

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CB'09 Banded Sunset Male

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CB'09 Super Sunset Female

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          The first male is a Black-eyed Orange Sunset, and he is possibly het for all the Monocled line Sunset morphs.  The first female is 66% Possible het Sunset.  She seems to show the markers for being het for something, but we don't yet know what Sunset morphs she may be het for.  I'm told there are 4 different Sunset morphs.  I bought them from a friend at the June 2009 Columbia, SC Show.

          The Banded male and Super Sunset female, are one-of-a-kind Sunsets.  They are the only two of their kind produced so far.

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3 . 3     Suphan Morph

CB'05 Male Suphan

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CB'07 Female

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CB'06 Female Suphan

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KaoS-005-M

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         The first male is the first Suphan specimen ever I've kept.  I bought him from a vendor at the Fall 2008 Columbia, SC show.  The word "Suphan", is pronounced Soo-Pan, and comes from the Central Thailand Province of Suphan Buri, sometimes written as Suphanburi, where this morph can be found.  It can also be found in Ayuthaya, Ang Tong, and Ratchaburi provinces.  The Suphan Cobra is not a sub-specie, but a color variant of Naja kaouthia.

          I picked up the CB'07 female from a friend on 03/29/09.  She is eating frozen thawed.

          I got the CB'06 female on 04/09/09.  Hopefully I can produce some of these in 2010.

          I traded a juvenile Banded Snouted Cobra (Naja annulifera) for another male Suphan, but I have not received the male as of yet.

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1 . 2   Naja naja  -  Indian Spectacled Cobra

(Sri Lankan Cobra, Black Pakistan Cobra, Naja karachiensis, Naja polyocellata)

Original Female

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CB'05 Female

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CB'05 Male

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          This is the second specie of snake I ever bred.  The first breeding I ever made was with Eastern (Common) Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja textilis) in late 2002.  In late 2004, I bred the Eastern Browns again, and N. naja for the first time, and produced 12.5 hatchlings.  I didn't cool the snakes at all, and they were being kept at 85 - 86 degrees at all times, and the eggs were incubated on a shelf in the snake room at 85 - 86 degrees.  In 2006, I made breeding's with N. sumatrana, N. legionis, 2 pairs of N. siamensis, and 1 breeding of Apalachicola King Snakes.  These Apalachicola Kings were the first non-venomous specie I ever bred.

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3 . 3   Naja oxiana  -  Central Asian Cobra

(Oxus Cobra, Russian Cobra)

CB'02 Male

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CB'02 Female

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CB'08 Male #1

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CB'08 Female #1

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CB'08 Male #2

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Oxi-006-F

     I purchased my first Russian Cobra, the CB'02 male, when he was a new hatchling, on 03/11/03.  No females were available at that time, nor did I see any for sale for the next 2 years.  Finally someone advertised a pair, or a reverse trio, but they wanted way too much, so I passed on them.  Almost 4 years after acquiring the male,  a buddy acquired a CB'02 female and sold her to me on 11/07/06.  She was on the small side so I fed her for a couple years to get her up to size.

     I bred these for the first time in 2008.  They tied up on 03/15 and 03/21.  She laid 8 eggs on 05/02/08, but only 4 eggs were viable.  This may be attributable to the fact that I only cooled my snakes for 1 month, and it didn't get very cool during that time.  I incubated them, and 63 days later the 4 eggs hatched and the ratio was 2.2.  They weren't the easiest hatchlings to get eating, but not the worst either.  The four babies were eating good after a month, and are eating frozen thawed now and growing fast.

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4 . 5   Naja siamensis  -  Indochinese Spitting Cobra

(Black & White Spitting Cobra, Isan Spitting Cobra, Naja isanensis)

CB'00 Female

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CB'07 Female

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CB'07 Female #2

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CB'08 Male #2

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CB'08 Female #2

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CB'08 Male #3

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CB'08 Female #3

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CB'09 Male #1

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CB'09 Female #1

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          Other than the Monacled Cobra morphs, the Indochinese Spitting Cobras are probably the most commonly kept and bred Cobras in the USA.  I purchased the CB'00 female from a friend on 10/26/02.  I've bred the CB'00 female to a CB'02 male in 2006 and 2007.  I kept the two CB'07 females from that breeding.  In 2008, I bred a CB'02 male to a CB'03 female I had.  She was 50/50 Black and White banded.  That breeding producing hatchlings with a higher degree of white on them.

     They are easy to keep and work with, and mine don't spit very often at all.

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5 . 3   Naja sputatrix  -  Southern Indonesian Spitting Cobra

(Javan Spitting Cobra)

AD Male #1

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AD Male #2

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CB'09 Male #1

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CB'09 Male #2

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CB'09 Male #3

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CB'09 Female #1

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CB'09 Female #2

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CB'09 Female #3

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          For many years, other species of Cobras, especially N. siamensis, were imported into America as N. sputatrix.  I've seen many Black and White Spitting Cobras advertised as N. sputatrix at shows and in classifieds online.  Again, if it is NOT blatantly obvious what the specie of snake is, do the scale counts.

          The 3.3 CB'09 sputatrix, which I will receive on March 13, 2010, are the Leucistic morph of this specie.  I have seen great variety in these specimens.  Most are/should be white, usually with brown on their head and varying degrees of brown speckling on their bodies.  They also have dark eyes as opposed to red eyes that you would see in an albino morph.  I have seen a couple blue/gray color morphs of this specie, whose body has a sort of fishnet look to it.  I am not sure exactly what they are.

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(Black Spitting Cobra, Malayan Spitting Cobra, Golden Spitting Cobra, Sumatran Spitting Cobra)

Original Female

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Original Male

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CB'06 Male

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CB'07 Female

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CB'07 Male

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CB'08 Female

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WC AD Male

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CB'08 Female #2

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     These are great little Cobras.  I acquired the Original Female on 11/14/01.  Recently, I heard these had been imported in the past, but I had never seen one advertised for sale, or shown off in someone's collection, until this female along with 2 other females were available.  Once I acquired the female, I asked around and watched the classifieds for a long time, looking for a male.  Then a friend I had not seen in a while, told me he had a male and he wanted to buy my female.  I wasn't about to let her go, and several months later, on 10/30/04, he offered to sell his male to me.  I fed these two for a year, making sure they were plenty big enough before attempting a breeding.

     The first year I bred these, 2006, they produced 7 eggs.   The eggs were huge at 2.5" - 3" (6.35 - 7.6cm) long and 1" - 1.25" (2.5 - 3.17cm) in diameter.  Six of the eggs hatched, and I kept a pair.  The next year they produced 5 eggs and 4 hatched.  Again, I kept a pair.  In 2008 they produced 6 eggs and all 6 hatched.  I kept a female.  When the babies hatch out, they are a tan to orange color, with some slight dark speckling, and some have an actual pattern, as seen in the photos below.  Generally, the males tend to be brighter colored and have less pattern than the females.  Photos are of 2008 eggs and hatchlings.  Click photos to see larger photos in a new window.

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2 . 1   Ophiophagus hannah  (Malaysian King Cobra)

Male  about 11' long

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12' Female

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Female eating an 

unscented Rat

CB'09 Male

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          The 12' female, a fresh import, was purchased from a friend on 03/28/09.  She was eating snakes for him.  I got her home late at night on 03/29/08, and set her up in a 4' x 12' cage.  On 03/30/09, I put a frozen thawed jumbo rat in her cage and left it over night.  I didn't think she would eat it, but there's no harm in trying.  The next day, when she had not eaten the rat, I sewed a 2" piece of thawed Gopher Snake to the face of the thawed rat she had not eaten, and put it back in with her.  The idea being that she would smell the snake and eat it, and end up eating the jumbo rat in the process.  It worked once again.  This technique has worked great for me in the past.  We are not out of the woods yet though.  She needs to keep the meal down and fully digest it.  If she keeps the meal down, I will feed her again in about 5 days, using the same technique.  If she eats this way a few times, and keeps the meals down, we will be well on our way, and he body weight will pick up fast. 

          It is 04/04/09, and she has kept the meal down.  I will feed her again tomorrow.  She has eaten a second time, and she ate much faster this time.  it looks like the girl is going to be east to deal with.

          It is now 06/07/09, and after sewing a piece of snake to rats for only 3 feedings, I tried, scenting the rats by rubbing them on a live Gopher Snake.  It worked!  After doing that a few times, I tried throwing in a frozen thawed Jumbo Rat that had not been scented, and she ate it.  Pictured above is her eating the 4 Unscented Rat.  This female has been the easiest King Cobra to get feeding on Unscented Rats.

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          I got the CB'09 male from the same friend that I got the female from.  The big female was imported by him and she had laid 2 eggs in the crate she was shipped in.  She laid the rest of the eggs, and this male is is one of them.  I have had 7 or 8 Kings over the years, but I've never had one that was under 6' or 7' long.  I've wanted to raise one from a baby, so now is my chance.  The King will not eat anything on his own.  I have been force feeding him baby Corn Snakes, and he is not fighting me as hard now.

          07/15/09 - He is finally eating Corn Snakes on his own, but as they are not a filling meal for his size, I am stuffing the Corns with 4 or 5 pinkies.  He is eating them with no problems.

          01/03/10 - The Corns are not big enough meals now so, I sewed a pre-killed small mouse to the approx. 10" long frozen thawed Corn, and he ate it right away.

          01/11/01 - The last meal of 1 small mouse sewed to the Corn, was not a very big meal either, so I sewed 3 pree-killed small mice to the thawed Corn.  I put it in the cage with him, turned off the light, and left the room.   I came back about 5 minutes later, and I could see that he had tried to eat it tail first, but had spit it back out, and he then found the front and was eating it.  I left him for 20 minutes, and when I came back he had finished eating.  Very good thing.  He should be eating frozen thawed mice & rats soon.  Pictures below of how I sewed the mice and Corns together.

          Some people think Kings may not do as well on a snake-free diet.  They may be right, but the only thing I've noticed is that they will become overweight if not monitored.  It happened with a pair Indonesian Kings I had several years back.  The male got quite fat, and I had to cut the size and frequency of his feedings, so he would lose some weight.

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AD Female  About 9' long

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Some of the information on this page was copied from the publications below.

A review of the southern African ‘non-spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)

DONALD G. BROADLEY AND WOLFGANG WÜSTER

Zootaxa 1532: 51–68 (2007)
www.mapress.com/zootaxa/

Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern and
north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)

WOLFGANG WÜSTER & DONALD G. BROADLEY

J. Zool., Lond. (2003) 259, 345–359 C
2003 The Zoological Society of London Printed in the United Kingdom DOI:10.1017/S0952836902003333

A new species of spitting cobra (Naja) from north-eastern Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae)

Wolfgang W¨uster and Donald G. Broadley

The Dangerous Snakes of Africa

Natural History  Species Directory  Venoms and Snakebite

by Stephen Spawles and Bill Branch

WCH Clinical Toxinology Resources

The University of Adelaide, Australia

http://www.toxinology.com/

The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry by Merel J. Cox

Handbook To The Dangerously Venomous Snakes Of Myanmar

by

Alan E. Leviton, George R. Zug, Jens V. Vindum, and Guinevere O.U. Wogan

Venomous Snakes

Snakes in the Terrarium

by Ludwig Trutnau