Naja naja polyocellata eggs! (pictures)

belated easter greetings from our Naja najas!

today our Najas gave me a nice surprise, after my arrival from manila i found one of my females on eggs today. well, i was hoping we breed them this year as they have nothing done last year - but the female was not expected to deliver eggs - it was suppose the other i separated earlier this way. 20 beautiful eggs, snow white was smiling at me, what a late easter surprise!

the other female is bigger - and very gravid - means, ill expect now another 30 eggs within the next days... grrr

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n12

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n12

the beauty and the eggs!

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n13

try to get my clutch - make my day punk!

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n14

wow - how nice is that?

cheers
Mario

Nice result, eggs look well...
It looks you will have a lot of hungry necks in next approx. 60 days... Wink

Way to go. Doesn't look like I'll be getting any N. naja eggs this year. There's still time, but it's not looking good. Congrats to you though

Randy, do your Naja naja breed every year?
it seem to me they breed every other year only... if im correct, ill think Peter from austria have made the same observation?

can you drop us a line peter?

cheers,
Mario

Yes, at my facility here they bred only every second year, but I've heard at least from one person who bred his Naja naja every year, therefore I think if it's a rule it will be proven by exceptions like almost every rule.
Cheers
Peter

i know i was remembering somethings like that...
thanks for the info peter...

cheers,
Mario

Mario,

My Naja naja bred in Jan. 2005 and I got 17 babies. I bred them again in March 2006 and I got 9 good eggs but they all went bad. I figured maybe it was from retained sperm, but I did see them tied up on 03/18/06. They were never cooled in those years.

I sold my adult male and an adult female that I got in a trade to Dean Ripa for his Serpentarium. In 2007 the same female that I had bred to that male laid 30 eggs, all bad. I was planning to take a trip so may snakes didn't get cooled until 2 months later than normal this year, and she laid about 30 bad eggs again about a month after coming out of hibernation. She hadn't been with the male, until after she laid the tiny bad eggs. Don't know yet if she bred with him, but I doubt it.

So, my female is laying eggs every year whether she is with a male or not, but they are all bad eggs. Hopefully next year, when I cool them on time, she will breed and lay good eggs.

ok, i understand....
hopefully, there is nothing wrong with the male (you have a new male? or you talking about your snakes at dean´s serpentarium?)?

well, i received my trio september 2006. one year later (2007) i was hoping to have some eggs, but i never saw them mating, and nothing happened. this year i just dont switch on the lights (i have no colder room anyway) and separated my 1.2 Naja naja for 6 weeks. then, i put them together first the male with the first female, later ill switched them and set them together with the other female - nothing!

another 4 weeks later, ill transfered all three snakes in to another, bigger and higher (1.50m) cage. and what happen? exactly, they liked the new setup better and paired up, almost directly after been transfered to the new cage! my Sri Lanka Cobras (also the adults) love to climb, i see them the whole day climbing around. sometimes, the animals just dont have the same taste for their "homes" as we do. if there is something wrong - like not mating, not eating well or what ever, i first try to offer them another stimuli, most of the times it helps (as you can see on the picture above).

cheers,
Mario

Really nice species.. One of the true cobra species for me.

I had 1.1 cb 07 but one specimens refused to eat and died after a few months. This little critter survived after force feeding it a couple of times. Now it's feeding like never before.
I think I wait for a few months and then I'll check the sex (I mixed them up). Maybe I will be looking for an older couple if this is a female.

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) IMG_0207

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) IMG_0207

Cheers,

Jelmer

Mario,

The only male I have now is from the pair of '05's I kept. So I have a pair of '05's and their mom. Their mom keeps laying eggs, but they are not good. This year, I put her with her son after I warmed them up and they shed. I noticed right away she seemed to be gravid already, so I put her back in her cage with a laying box, and she layed a bunch of bad eggs. That shed was obviously her pre-lay shed.

The eggs were very small, so I don't believe she was stressed nearly as much as if they were all good eggs. I've put her back in with her son a few times, but I haven't seen any action.

well, today was the day...
my second female delivered 26 healthy eggs and one wax-egg...

the eggs been laid 14 day´s after here pre-layed-shed (the other Naja naja female delivered after 13 day´s!)

some pictures:

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n15

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n15

laboring female ... Naja naja

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n16

another 26 good looking eggs.....

Naja naja *polyocellata* eggs! (pictures) Naja_n17

and into the incubator....

just in case guys, the babies should be hatching after around 70 days... if somebody like some!

cheers
Mario

Way to go Mario. My '05 Sri Lankan looks like she may be gravid. Kind of hard to tell. She is fatter than usual at the tail end, but not as fat as you might expect if she was gravid. She is blue now, so we'll see what happens after she sheds.

just an short update guys....

the first clutch was loosing one egg, all others are nice and growing....

the second clutch: 15 eggs left, the others was not fertile and we loose them within days..
all others are find white and growing...

cheers
Mario

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