my black 7 foot forest cobra

ransnakeman45 · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

here are pictures of my forest.

Venomjunkie · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Beautiful Forest Randy! They are one of my favorite Naja for sure Smile

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**Eric** · Site Admin Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 334 Location: Pa

Wow Randy keep posting pics of that snakes. I'm due for a pair of those one of these days. So what's yours like I try to get as much info as possible from the guys that keep the forest cobras. They are awesome but have a killer reputation.

**ZEKE** · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 466

wow nice cobra! i heard those are hard to keep.

beautiful snake!

**Eric** · Site Admin Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 334 Location: Pa

Easy to keep. Hard to handle. LOL

**ZEKE** · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 466

lol my bad. seems like if they are hard to handle and like to bite like you said Erik that they would be hard to keep too.

Andrew · Joined: 15 Dec 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Outer Banks of NC

I hope you have lots of experience and are exceedingly careful. Do you have access to AV? That is the kind of animal that if you make a mistake you will be the next high profile incident that the folks from the Animal Protection Institue (API) & H$U$ would just love to use to ban exotics... not to mention it could put you in the grave. Animals like that are spectacular but they are no joke... they require the utmost in seriousness and professionalism to successfully handle them over the long term. How long have you worked with Elapids? How long have you owned that beautiful Forest Cobra?

JustAnja · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 56 Location: WI

Didnt you sell that snake to Jessi because you were afraid of it? I thought Jessi still had the snake? Are you saying you have it back now?

I thought Justin was supposed to get the snake back if you decided you couldnt handle it? Wasnt that the deal?
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**pythonjosh** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 59

Forests are the perfect cross between a cobra and a mamba. Extremely attentive, alert, and aware of their surroundings. Always twitchin their head like a mamba. They also have the tallest hoods of any cobra (in comparison to its length). I've played with a friend's that were only 4ft long, but a really awesome cobra that always requires 100% attention, cause it will test ya.

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jparker1167 · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 26

av only has a shelf live of 6 months can you show where you found that im sure not all have the same amount of shelf live but i have heard 3 years for most av. never hear of only only lasting 6 months.. if a person gets bit by a hot they are not ready to keep it ? everyone makes mistakes that doesnt me they are not quailfied to keep that animal. i have a friend that started keeping puff adders as his first hot at the age of 14 and he have his first bite for 28 years, and he has around 200 adult venomous snake breeders so does that me he should never have kept a hot ? no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.

you said this

The only way to acquire AV is via a doctor, because AV is a controlled substance and is only acquirable by prescription. Good luck finding a doctor comfortable with prescribing someone AV.

a doctor is not the only way to acquire av, and is not by prescripiton. you can fill out paper work to get a permit to import av, i believe ray hunter has a section on his site that list the prices for av he sells. you need a doctor to sign off on saying he ill administer av if you are bit i believe is how it works.... maybe someone will come along and correct us both if we are wrong maybe you could post this on venomdoc for brian fry to answer.