My Venomous Snakes

[Najakeeper]

I must have gotten the species wrong, it just sounded... Wrong to do to a snake.

It can still be a cobra but not defanged. It probably had a venomoid surgery as I described above.

Another question, I was watching one of the feeding vids and you mention that there was no anti venom for the snakes you were feeding (the black & yellow cobras), do you keep anti venom on hand with the other species you work with? I'm just curious.

We have a joint antivenom bank in Switzerland where we pay into. It is quite expensive to keep antivenom for all the snakes we keep individually but having one bank makes it quite cheap, about $150 per year. So far no one has been bitten to test how efficient it is but I foresee no issues.

In case of Samar Cobras, there is no antivenom so a bite may result to artificial breathing in an icu unit. I try to not to take chances with them.

Thanks for watching the videos.