Care Sheet for Venomous SnakesAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 2.67 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 11/02/2005 |
Main Category: | Snakes |
Sub Category: | Venomous Snakes |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Basilisk15 |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Egyption Cobra |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Your vet will likely not want to probe your snake for obvious reasons. Just wait until they’re adults in order to sex them. Females are bigger than males and have thicker bodies. |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | For natural looking substrate, you could use indoor/outdoor carpeting, aspen shavings, astrotourf, or repti-carpet. If you want easy substrate use paper towels or newspaper, which doesn’t look very fancy, though. Don’t use pine or cedar chips. |
Lighting and UVB: | Like most snakes, they don’t need uvb , but it wouldn’t hurt. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | They need temperatures from 95-116 degrees on the warm side and 75-80 degrees on the cool side. The humidity should be between 40-50 percent. |
Heating and Equipment: | Use a heating mat with a thermostat to get the right temperature. I don’t like those stick on heating pads. I heard heat lamps dry certain kinds of snakes, so be if choose to use heat lamps with basking bulbs, be careful. |
Caging Provided: | They need a large cage. A baby cobra can housed in 20-30 gallon tank. When they’re adults, they need at least a 70 gallon tank. I like rubbermaid containers with holes poked on the sides, better then tanks, but it’s up to you. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | They should be fed the usual mice/rat diet. As they get older, increase the diet from fuzzies all the way up to rabbits or colossal rats. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | They don’t need any, unless you have a gravid female. |
Maintenance: | Don’t even think about buying these snakes, just to be cool. These are one of the most deadly snakes on this planet. Other than that, they’re maintenance is pretty straight forward. |
Some Words on this Species: | I never had a cobra, but I’ve done a lot of research on them. If you want one, don’t be stupid and capture them. It’s not only harder and more dangerous, but a wild snake almost never does well in captivity. Do it the easier and smarter way and buy a captive bred one (if you could find one). This way, you can tell when a snake is healthy. I don’t understand the people on this website who capture snakes and keep them as pets. I know this care sheet sucks, I just wrote it for fun. |
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