Here some pictures of my breeding female of Naja atra, light colour phase from Taiwan.
The lady's 8 years old now and she just laid her third clutch today:



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First clutches (2006/2007) contained 11 eggs, today I found 15.
Well done, girlie, thank you!
Greetings from Austria, where it's a old national custom to find cobra eggs around Easter!
Peter

Nice result, Peter. 15 eggs is really good quantity for atras... They are nice, I keep my fingers crossed for hatching of all babies for you...

Congrats Peter. Nice clutch, and the caging looks beautiful. Another specie I have not had the pleasure of keeping. One of the few. I have some Monacleds from my buddy Mitch of Diamond Reptile Breeders, that are possible het for Sunset and Leucistic. My female looks just like the one in your pics. She has the same type hood marking and pretty much the same color. Someone told Mitch crossed N. atra with N. kaouthia, but Mitch told me the other day, they are not atra at all. Hope to breed them next season when the male is old enough.

Hello Petter
Do you have more other information of her locatility??

here is one of my07' Naja atra ,Hainan ,China

yes, also from me - congrats Peter, nice animals - i like the atras...
pretty docile and relaxed are ours.




picture of my couple atras from Taiwan:


enjoy!

Cheers
Mario

They hatch!
Incubation time 57 days at 28 - 29 degrees Celsius.
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a picture of the whole "gang" will be presented as soon as they're all out.
Cheers
Peter

you know i love them ....
tooo much...


thanks for this beautiful picture of few new lives...



cheers
Mario

Congrats Peter! It's a nice result.

Best wishes,

Dennis.

Wow ... what a moment!
Congratulations to the successful bred, Peter!

Really nice Peter. I love this light coloured form...

Jelmer

Nice Peter I hope my eggs hatch that fast. My B&W's usually hatch in less days than the Sumatrans, but with my luck the Russians and Sumatrans will take 75 days.

And here they are, just done their postnatal shed.
Darker in coloration as adults, and with aberrant mask pattern, as the parents are.
One can see two color types: some of'em have bright spots, some do not and are uniform brown.

Believe it or not, the uniform brown specimens are males, the spotted ones females.
And yes, sexual dimorphism doesn't occur in the genus Naja, as far as I know.

well, thats some beauties peter, congratulations!
lovely to see how cute they are.

pretty interesting finding on atras with the coloration differences between male and female. somebody els has the same experiences so far?


cheers
Mario

Do they keep this dimorphism into adult age? What do You think?
Congratulations, real beauties.

Nice Peter

Can't wait for my stuff to start hatching. Some Cornsnakes started hatchling today, but my venomous has a while to go

Hey cool man

Congratulations from Switzerland
they are absolutely beautiful and pretty cool little snakes
Would love to keep some of the in the future, like atras, very cool Cobra species...

Good luck with them mate

Cheers
Marco

Congratulations! That are some very pretty babies!
Good luck raising them.

Cheers,
Harold

and they all started best without problems.

two more pictures:

Stunning little cobra's
Good to hear they all started so well!

Cheers,
Harold

I'm still sorting out about 2000 shots, Peter.
Will come up with some postprocessed soon (hope so). A first view showed that there are a couple of acceptable shots among the 2000.

Thanks again for the possibility to do this. Also besides photographing it was a great experience ;-)

Jumping out of a lying position, not easy for a man in my age :-D

Hope my shots will fulfill Your expectations ...