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Our White-lipped Python layed a healthy clutch of eggs on Thursday 12th June 2009, White-lipped Pythons lay later in the year compared to many other python species.

Breeding has taken place here at Midlands Reptiles this year to allow Woolfboids time to focus on various new breeding projects.

If you express interest in hatchlings, please contact us via e mail or phone, prices are around £180 each.

This year Midlands Reptiles were the second breeders in the UK to breed Pakistan Black Cobras (Naja naja), this species once known as (Naja karachiensis) is now classed under the same name as the more familiar spectacled cobra which is geographically located around parts of India and Sri Lanka.

We were astonished to find when the young hatched they have a full spectacle pattern located on their hood, resembling the Sri Lankan locality (Naja naja), after several sheds these magnificent cobras turn jet black with a patchy yellow under side like their parents.

Incubation was surprisingly short lasting only fifty three days, we incubated the eggs at 87 degrees, fourteen eggs were layed, we lost 2 within the first two weeks and another two within the last week, one snake died after a couple of days and one was dead in the egg.

All together we ended up with eight perfectly healthy Pakistan Black Cobras.

(L-R): Tom Charlton and Dave Nixon, sexing a 2 week old Pakistan Black Cobra, (Naja naja)

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Tom Charlton shares his travel experiences throughout Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia