Some pictures of my Naja atra China locality and their offspring 2010.
Excuse the partially poor quality of the pictures, even after some "workshops" with Guenter i did not become a better photographer.
It's not my intention to win a photo contest, but to show you some interesting pattern varieties.

First one of the adults. I'm keeping 1,2, 7 years old, they live together year round in a 140/80 cm enclosure.


Pictures of juveniles of the first clutch laid on 06. 08. and hatched on 08. 06. after 59 days. 10 juveniles out of 12 eggs hatched.



On 07. 21. i found another unexpected clutch of 8 eggs from the second female. These hatched 30 days later on 08. 20. - the clutch has been laid under moss and remained undiscovered for about 30 days.
Watch the aberrant mask pattern and stripes on the left picture and the unusual broad bandings on the right one.


Needless to say all juveniles are doing well and have started eating soon after their postnatal shed.

Thanks for watching, and have a nice day

Peter

You definitely learn faster in photography than I do in herpetology, Peter!

nice animals peter
gr jorg

Nice cobra's. I like this color-form the most of the atra's.

Georgus animal Peter.

Regards, BKK

BEAUTYFULL!!!!

I think one or two of the little ones will find there way to my home this october

did one of your China atra's ever spit Peter?

Great Peter. The aberrant patterns are interesting. The excitement of not knowing what will come out of the eggs and getting something interesting must be awesome.

i forgot to answer your question, Chaim:

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did one of your China atra's ever spit Peter?

I found one splash of venom on the front glasses some day - this spitting might have been triggered off by (stupid) visitors teasing the snakes.
No one of the adult trio ever spit while beeing handled.
My taiwanese atra rarely spit - once in a while.
One of my vietnamese specimens used to be a daily spitter, but has stopped with it about two years ago. Spitting isn't part of the daily business of Chinese Cobras, many or most of'em do it never, but once in a while one of'em tells you: "Yes, we can!"

Cheers
Peter

Thank you for the information Peter!

sounds good to me.

I just love Atra, nice to see cb ones. I enjoyed keeping these a few years ago.

Congrats! Nice cobras!

Beautiful animals Peter.

Randy