Najakeeper
Arachnoprince
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Hello all,
Cobras always fascinated me the most among snakes, I think even more than Death Adders (Acanthophis), which are my current favorite venomous snakes. I have kept several cobras in the course of my venomous snake keeping. I actually got into venomous snakes with an albino Naja kaouthia (monocled cobra) (bad decision), then I had Naja nigricollis (black necked spitting cobra), Naja pallida (red spitting cobra), Naja haje legionis (Moroccan cobra) and Naja nigricincta (zebra spitting cobra). I have kept these wonderful snakes within a 10 year period but I haven't had a cobra for over 2 years since I sold the Naja nigricincta I had.
Recently, I saw some snakes that were for sale. As a geneticist by training, mutations have always fascinated me and these snakes are very interesting on that count. Also, they are not inbred hybrids like most Naja kaouthia mutants available in the market.
So the male is called a "Highlite", the genetics are bit unclear but the father is a wild caught Granite Pastel het for T- Albino and the mother is a first generation captive bred carries a gene associated with creating extra orange in Orange Pastels.
Here he is:
He will get to be more orange with each shed but will display some melanin as well with a clearly defined Monocle and banding.
The female is the superform of the Orange Pastel mutation and she probably carries the extra gene mentioned above as well. The father to this female is a wild caught Orange Pastel and the mother is a first generation Orange Pastel with the extra gene. So both snakes have mothers, which are sisters but unrelated wild caught fathers and they all originate from Thailand so they are not hybrids of Farmosa cobras etc.
Here she is:
The snakes are bought and paid for but I will bring them home in October 2013. My breeder friend in the Netherlands will take care of them until I secure the proper Antivenom and get my snake room properly organized for them etc.
I already love these specimens and only god knows what will come out if I manage to breed them in a few years.
I will of course have much better pictures and HD videos when I have the snakes in my snake room/photo studio .
Cheers
Cobras always fascinated me the most among snakes, I think even more than Death Adders (Acanthophis), which are my current favorite venomous snakes. I have kept several cobras in the course of my venomous snake keeping. I actually got into venomous snakes with an albino Naja kaouthia (monocled cobra) (bad decision), then I had Naja nigricollis (black necked spitting cobra), Naja pallida (red spitting cobra), Naja haje legionis (Moroccan cobra) and Naja nigricincta (zebra spitting cobra). I have kept these wonderful snakes within a 10 year period but I haven't had a cobra for over 2 years since I sold the Naja nigricincta I had.
Recently, I saw some snakes that were for sale. As a geneticist by training, mutations have always fascinated me and these snakes are very interesting on that count. Also, they are not inbred hybrids like most Naja kaouthia mutants available in the market.
So the male is called a "Highlite", the genetics are bit unclear but the father is a wild caught Granite Pastel het for T- Albino and the mother is a first generation captive bred carries a gene associated with creating extra orange in Orange Pastels.
Here he is:
He will get to be more orange with each shed but will display some melanin as well with a clearly defined Monocle and banding.
The female is the superform of the Orange Pastel mutation and she probably carries the extra gene mentioned above as well. The father to this female is a wild caught Orange Pastel and the mother is a first generation Orange Pastel with the extra gene. So both snakes have mothers, which are sisters but unrelated wild caught fathers and they all originate from Thailand so they are not hybrids of Farmosa cobras etc.
Here she is:
The snakes are bought and paid for but I will bring them home in October 2013. My breeder friend in the Netherlands will take care of them until I secure the proper Antivenom and get my snake room properly organized for them etc.
I already love these specimens and only god knows what will come out if I manage to breed them in a few years.
I will of course have much better pictures and HD videos when I have the snakes in my snake room/photo studio .
Cheers