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Click any photo to see a larger version. Please do not steal my photos for the purpose of advertising your own animals. AAll animals pictured on this page are in my collection, and owned by me. The photos were taken by me, unless otherwise labeled. I am still looking specimens of Naja philippinensis, and extra specimens of species I already have. If you have something for sale, please contact me, at the link above.
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3 . 3 Naja oxiana - Central Asian Cobra (North Indian Cobra, Oxus Cobra, Russian Cobra) |
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CB'02 Male Oxi-001-02-M |
CB'02 Female Oxi-002-02-F |
CB'08 Female Oxi-003-08-F |
CB'08 Male Oxi-004-08-M |
CB'08 Male Oxi-005-08-M |
CB'08 Female Oxi-006-08-F |
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These are not the
prettiest Cobras when they are adults, but as babies they are spectacular,
and full of attitude which they retain into adulthood. Russian
Cobras are pretty rare nowadays, but used to be fairly common especially
in Europe. I think their attitude ranks them up there with the best
of the Naja species. Many Naja species as well as other
species of snakes calm down after a while in captivity. Not these guys.
They like to show off and will stand up for long periods as the adult male
above. He stood up there for many photos.
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. . The adult pair did not breed in 2009 or 2010, but they did breed in 2011. But once again, there were many infertile eggs. She laid 11 eggs on 04/08/11, but only 5 are good. This year I cooled them for 1 1/2 months, 15 days longer than in 2008, but that didn't seem to have any effect on the ratio of good and bad eggs. The eggs are incubating at 80 - 82 deg., (26.6 - 27.7 C).
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Some of the information on this page may have been copied from the publications below. |
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WCH Clinical Toxinology Resources The University of Adelaide, Australia |
The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry by Merel J. Cox |
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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 |
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Links below copied from the website of Wolfgang Wüster http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/Taxa/AsNaja.htm SLOWINSKI, J.B. & W. WÜSTER (2000) A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica, 56(2): 257-270. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1992) A century of confusion: Asiatic cobras revisited. The Vivarium, 4: 14-18. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1996) Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the Asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon, 34(4): 399-406. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1998) The cobras of the genus Naja in India. Hamadryad, 23(1): 15-32. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1989) Population affinities of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in south-east Asia: reliability and random resampling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 36: 391-409. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1991) Asiatic cobras: systematics and snakebite. Experientia, 47: 205-209. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1992) Asiatic cobras: population systematics of the Naja naja species complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia. Herpetologica, 48(1): 69-85. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1994) Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing. Experientia, 50: 75-79. pdf WÜSTER, W., R.S. THORPE, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1995) Population systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 8: 493-510. pdf WÜSTER, W., D.A. WARRELL, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1997) Redescription of Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Elapidae), a widely overlooked spitting cobra from Southeast Asia: geographic variation, medical importance and designation of a neotype. Journal of Zoology, 243: 771-788. pdf
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