My "Rare" Venomous Snakes

[yasin]

Here is the feeding video of the Samar Cobra:

 

[yasin]

An update of my beautiful Congo Water Cobras:

 

[yasin]

Here is my female water cobra feeding:

Here is my problem feeder Acanthophis antarcticus female on some solid food:

Beautiful Samar Cobra female:

 

[yasin]

After another shed, she is looking absolutely spectacular. I have finally managed to find a mate for her, I am getting a 2014 Blue eyed Leucistic male before the month ends.

 

[LauraB]

LOVE the Samar shots!

Your Monocled girl looks better and better all the time! Scary and aggressive, but so beautiful, LOL. Thanks for sharing the feeding video.

And to pair her with a blue eyed Lucy; oh, the possibilities!

 

[yasin]

LOVE the Samar shots!

Your Monocled girl looks better and better all the time! Scary and aggressive, but so beautiful, LOL. Thanks for sharing the feeding video.

And to pair her with a blue eyed Lucy; oh, the possibilities!

Thanks!

Yeah, I am excited for that pairing even if it is a couple years down the road.

 

[yasin]

Water cobras finally graduated to furry food items, decent weight will follow:

 

[yasin]

So I had to decide which cobra species to keep due to space restrictions. Aside from the N.kaouthia morphs and the water cobras, which I keep, I choose the Naja samarensis, the Samar Cobra.

These animals come from the Samar Island in the Southern Philippines. Although they are true spitters, adults rarely do so and this is a nice spitter to work with. Also, their colors are so amazing, this just makes them the most beautiful Naja species in my opinion and they stay around 3ft range, less than a meter in most cases. The only problem with them is their 'attitude'. These guys are always angry and they do not take prisoners. Someone I know used to say that if they were 6 ft instead of 3, we would probably be all evolved from them .

Ok, here is my female, which is a whopping 1.3 meters, very large for this species:

And my male, which is much smaller:

And here is a feeding video:

 

[yasin]

A nice video of the Aruba Island Rattlesnake:



And here is a cool picture of her:

 

[yasin]

Naja beauty is uncontested...

 

[yasin]

Here is another "Valley of the Death" photo picturing 3 Acanthophis species I keep:

Left to right: Acanthophis sp. "Dajarra Desert" , Acanthophis sp. "Northern Flood Plains", Acanthophis antarcticus

 

[yasin]

Here is another "Valley of the Death" photo picturing 3 Acanthophis species I keep:

Left to right: Acanthophis sp. "Dajarra Desert" , Acanthophis sp. "Northern Flood Plains", Acanthophis antarcticus

All three species in a single video:

 

[yasin]

Man, these are grumpy. I had to take the male out for a routine cleaning and he refused to go into the temp. enclosure. Proceeded to chase me around etc. Finally, after the cage cleaning, this is his reaction:

Sorry for the quality as it is a cell phone photo...

 

[yasin]

Just beautiful...

 

[yasin]

Here is another Samar video. Both snakes are in their permanent homes now and are enjoying life. I gave the female a bit of quail meet today and she seemed to love it.



And here is a hint of a hood, a rare sight for my docile water cobras...

Here is how docile he is on a normal day...

 

[yasin]

Just beautiful...

 

[yasin]

Leucistic Monocled Cobra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0--U3sKU2w

 

[yasin]

Leucistic Monocled Cobra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0--U3sKU2w

 

[yasin]

Here is the latest video from the Orange Patel Highlite Naja kaouthia girl:



She is getting darker with each shed, really cool snake.

 

[yasin]

The water cobras are getting more docile by the day... Really amazing snakes.

Interestingly, they have been refusing fish prey after the complete switch to unscented rodents. I still try to give them fish sometimes and the female decided to eat some today: