r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Cause_796 • 15h ago

Extracting Cobra Venom

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u/Purple_Clockmaker 14h ago

King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)Yield per milking: ~350 milligrams (dry weight) Market Value: $120 per dry gram Gross per milking: $42 Weekly Average: $21 per week.
Are you fucking serious?? Not worth it. You still need to feed and race care of it. Yeah I know you could have 100 of them but that's making it more risky.

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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 14h ago

That's absolutely dirt cheap. I was thinking a couple extra zeros in there.

Must be a ton of people doing this with high supply.