Naja sumatrana Pictures

Here are a few pics of a couple of my Yellow Phase Sumatran Spitters.

First 2 pics are of my original WC male
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Below pic is a CB'06 male (son of above male)
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cobras are ! Amazing....
what ever species it is - but this yellow N.sumatrana of yours are stunning.

lovely pics
thanks

Cheers
Mario

I agree with Mario, really amazing species... Can`t wait to have some over here as well Rolling Eyes

Good luck with laying eggs and their incubation...

Many Thanks

My original female is gravid and I'm expecting eggs any day now. The original male and female have spit at me many times while in their cages and it hits the glass, but I don't recall getting spit on. I've produced 7.3 babies in 2 years, and I kept 2.2. None of the babies I've produced have spit at me, but one guy who bought one said his now spits often.

The thing I really like is that they almost always stand up and hood, lunge forward and make a lot of noise. I don't understand why the original male in the above pics didn't stand up for us when we were taking pics the other day. I've had my original male since 10/30/04 and the female since 11/14/01, and they have not calmed down like most Cobras I've had.

I only knew of 1.3 Yellow Phase Sumatrans that were in America, and I had 1.1. I've never seen or heard about any others. A year ago, I was told by a couple people that several have been brought into America, but I've been looking for them since I got my female, and no one seems to have any. I believe they were all WC specimens that were brought in, so maybe they didn't live. Though mine are very hardy animals and easy to breed. They don't lay very many eggs though. The babies are about 10" long when they hatch, and the ones I have produced, have all eaten F/T large mouse pinks right after their first shed. I've had one problem feeder, and he wasn't that bad.

I'll post pics when I get eggs. Hopefully that will be soon.

Randy

Really nice Randy!

It's the same over here when it comes to purchasing Naja sumatrana. Also sometimes it's not Naja sumatrana but Naja sputatrix.

Cheers,

Jelmer

Thanks Jelmer

Several years ago, a place here in Florida, not the biggest dealer, but whom you've probably heard of, sold me a pair of Black Phase N. sumatrana. They were beautiful, and cheap. The cheap part should have told me something was wrong, but I figured they knew what they were selling. Anyway, 2 years ago I bred them and all the babies had spectacle or abberant spectacle hood markings. Sumatrana never has hood markings according to WW's site. I did the scale counts on the adults at their next shed, and they proved to be black phase N. siamensis.

I purchased a pair of brown colored "Thai Spitters" from another, bigger and more well known dealer in America. After they described them to me, I asked, and I was told they were definitely NOT sputatrix. I paid twice what N. sputatrix were going for and guess what? They definitely WERE sputatrix. When I told them about the scale counts proving them to be sputatrix, he said, "wow, really" and that was it. Didn't even offer to give me a discount on a future purchase. Needless to say, I have never purchased from them since.

It's amazing to me that people can sell snakes, especially venomous, and not know or care what they are selling. It's gotten to the point where I won't buy anything sight unseen, unless I'm buying from a very good friend.

Randy Ciuros wrote:: It's amazing to me that people can sell snakes, especially venomous, and not know or care what they are selling. It's gotten to the point where I won't buy anything sight unseen, unless I'm buying from a very good friend.

actually, thats very bad - imagine, somebody take a bite and the hospital treat them with the wrong antidote, huh?
nothing worse could happen. its a shame and it is nearly a criminal act (at least it should prosecute as such!) if something like this would happen...

cheers
Mario

Randy Ciuros wrote:: Thanks Jelmer

Several years ago, a place here in Florida, not the biggest dealer, but whom you've probably heard of, sold me a pair of Black Phase N. sumatrana. They were beautiful, and cheap. The cheap part should have told me something was wrong, but I figured they knew what they were selling. Anyway, 2 years ago I bred them and all the babies had spectacle or abberant spectacle hood markings. Sumatrana never has hood markings according to WW's site. I did the scale counts on the adults at their next shed, and they proved to be black phase N. siamensis.

I purchased a pair of brown colored "Thai Spitters" from another, bigger and more well known dealer in America. After they described them to me, I asked, and I was told they were definitely NOT sputatrix. I paid twice what N. sputatrix were going for and guess what? They definitely WERE sputatrix. When I told them about the scale counts proving them to be sputatrix, he said, "wow, really" and that was it. Didn't even offer to give me a discount on a future purchase. Needless to say, I have never purchased from them since.

It's amazing to me that people can sell snakes, especially venomous, and not know or care what they are selling. It's gotten to the point where I won't buy anything sight unseen, unless I'm buying from a very good friend.

It's unbelievable indeed....it spits, it's yellowish, so it's sumatrana...that's what some people seem to think.

Jelmer

Happy Days Mario!!! Finally the Yellow Sumatran laid her eggs. I stayed up to make sure I got them as soon as she was done. It's now 3:20am. I tried to take a pic of her on the eggs, but she is such a psycho, that as soon as I opened the laying box, she stood up, and was lunging at me, so I had to just take her off the eggs before she disturbed them too much. I candled the ones she knocked around, to make sure I placed them in the vermiculite right side up.

She laid 7 eggs 2006, 5 eggs in 2007, and now 6 eggs in 2008. One egg didn't hatch in 2006, and one didn't hatch in 2007. Hopefully they will all hatch this year. They are 2 1/2" to almost 3" long. Big eggs for such a small snake.

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Best wishes for the incubation!!!

Regards
Vangelis

wow, wow, wow - awesome! cheers

lets incubate them a bit cooler as we talked about it before... i sure cross my fingers man!
what a nice picture... the white gold nuggets!

cheers
Mario

Randy,

Congratulations to your N. sumatrana eggs!

matt

Congratulations, Randy
These cobras are on top of my list.
Wish you all the best.
Peter

Thanks everyone. Dont worry Mario, since my eggs hatched in 2006, I've been keeping and breeding my snakes at those cooler temps, and incubating the eggs at the cooler temps like we talked about.

For everyone else who may be wondering what we talked about, I'll start a new thread, in the "Naja" section, because this subject is about temps during the year, during copulation, during egg formation in the female, as well as incubation temps in Naja species. I'll call it "Temperature Sex Determination in Naja". I believe it is called TSD when talking about turtles, and lizards.

Hi Randy,

huge congratulation from me!!! I was hoping in more eggs, but this quantity is surely nice too. Hope they are hatch (and we can split them with Mario Embarassed

Can`t wait for it bounce

Best regards,
Peter P.

Congratulations, Randy

Wish you all the best.

Regards

Henning

I´m not very experienced in kobras and never kept them at home,but would like to share this picture with you.I caught this big black specimen of Naja sumatrana two weeks ago in Borneo,Poring Hot Springs.

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this small baby of sumatran kobra killed a NP staff near of my bungalow IN THE NP!!! Mad

When I asked them for a reason they were very surprised........

Excuse me ... what does "NP" mean here?

I think NP means National Park.... Wink

Here ya go Mario. I took a new picture this morning. 3 of 6 have pipped.

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Here are a couple pics of last years babies, so you can see what they look like out of the egg.

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Here are pics of the first hatchling out of the egg today, July 5th.

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Amazing, it looks very nice... I keep my fingers crossed for hatching of all 6 of them...

Best regards,
Peter P.

One is out of the egg, 4 more have pipped, so only one egg left to pip. Last year I got 5 eggs and 4 hatched, the year before, I got 7 eggs and 6 hatched. The 6th egg this year looks real good, so I think all 6 may hatch this year.

wow, wow, wow -

congratulations Randy! cute little buggers you got there!
i hope all 6 will hatch and i certainly hope the sex ratio is good too...

cant wait man!

cheers
Mario

5 are out of the egg, and the 6th pipped yesterday, so all 6 will hatch this year.

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