"I Realise I Just Fell In Love With Hottentotta Polystictus & Hottentotta Trilineatus  But I Still Love My Wife !" 

Do knw dat it is very lucky to get an emp as starter scorp

my my. its is very cold la in this thread. some artsy pic of my new scorps.

first up . the ever famous but underrated

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i do have to make the lighting better. i think its too dark.

so i adjusted the lighting,change the ligh bulb to a whiteish one and took a picture of a new member of my invert family. just arrive today by mail from a far eastern friend. guess what sp it is?


yellow fat tail. yeaaaaaa.

Why la u quote u remove the spoiler lester -.-''
Isnt that a Androctonus Amoreuxi?

congrats on the new addition... YFT yeah.. rite.... i'll b geting one yft soon... buahahahahahah...

Ryo.. ur not the only one here.. i had my fare of it..
the only one i know who has better luck is Lester... i dun kno wut you do but ur hot hot grow like crazy.,...

What should i do with the hot hot corpse i wonder...
Feed it to my C.Marg?

lester, mind tell us how u keep ur hot2? where u put them (dark corner or beside window), how long u mist n quantity, any heating when rainy day?

Thx bro, that would be helpful.... Hopefully...
About those sand, saw u mentioned that u get them from beach rite? Do you soak them in water 1st and boil them? Cause from what I know those sand do contain salt which is a no for inverts, correct me if I am wrong...


Kar, i wonder do this apply to other arid inverts, cause they have been kept in a dry condition, so the 1st reaction when they saw/sense water, they will drink like hell.... They never know they could die for this....


Bro, i dont really understand what is the main point in the post, is it how we mist the container? or I read the wrong post...
Is it this one ?

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Added on October 27, 2009, 9:22 pmbtw i lost 1 vittatus.... sad to see it. Suspect died in my car yesterday after meeting rafiq, coz quite cold yesterday.

damn,
today woke up at 5:00am and peek on my H.H ,
and its body turn over ,and...dont wanna continue...

If you were to ask me, these are the few hypothesis that I have narrowed down,

1) The Hottentotta Hottentotta that you bought is possibly an old Hottentotta Hottentotta. I believe like any other animals, scorpions too will be weaker and weaker as they age. In this case, we're still not sure because we can't tell how old exactly is your former Hottentotta Hottentotta. Any information on this will be of great use!

2) It could be a Wild Caught specimen. I'm not sure if you guys have experienced the same issues that I have with Wild Caught scorpions. What I actually have as feedback from my friends and also through observing my very 2 Wild Caught specimen(Liocheles Australasiae), problems do occur when it comes to feeding. Half of the time, force feeding is almost a must! And not only feeding, they also seem to perish easily in captivity due to some reasons that I can't think of now. 

3) There is one more possibility and that is due to the scorpion itself has already weakened itself before reaching to you. This is the only hypothesis that I still have great doubts due to my lack of knowledge in regards of how a scorpion can be weakened/killed. Especially for your Hottentotta Hottentotta case, there is a bundle of thoughts to be put in because you yourself is a credible keeper with experience. I believe with any "google-diseases", you should have been able to identify before hand.

I really do believe in mothers that are kept with minimal husbandry will lead to defected babies and even for some mothers which are kept with good husbandry, defected babies will definitely come by possibly either due to stress during labour, stress during gestation, imperfect gestation, or it can even be due to bad genetics. From my tarantula keeping experience, I have seen eggsacs that contain almost 50-80% of spiderlings that are born with Dyskinetic Syndrome or some even smaller than their siblings. Some are born not eating at all in which caused them to not go through 2nd instar or in some cases, 3rd instar.

EDIT : Ahh...it's not the same ones that we have. Hmm...I noticed your signature...and I see Tityus Stigmurus! May I know if there is any possibility if I were to get some as well? Uber interested!!

What? L.Australasiae die easily and need to force feed? O_O
I have no problem at all with my wc LA, i even caught one with brood from previous herping trip with taggy and all of the babies survived
(Few died cause i neglected them, ok sry man:()
About feeding, no problem at all, just kill and throw inside, they ll eat after a few minutes

Stigmurus and Jacksoni are from trading with lester with my innesi
They will only reach on mid nov thou... Grey color= Pending

inbreeding could cause any effect in inverts? For gravid scorps that refuse to eat, i dont think that they are full so they refuse to eat. Same as human beings, they need to supply nutrients to the foetus in the womb (if they have 1). Or maybe they not used to local crix? or they are too weak to eat after killing the prey as they are gravid n need more energy? Ryo do you tried prekilled prey?
And yeah, I agree with Kar too, wc specimen are not use to be fed with mealworm or crix. Hong/eddie once told me that wild caught specimen will refuse to eat as they were fed with other kind of bugs in the wild. They might never encounter these bugs in their life before and hence they refuse to eat. And I read that living things do "evolve" into different species (speciation) if they have different kind of food source. So might be the food are not their basic diet hence they might face some problem during digestion and absorption.
Lester, how about those  Lychas Scutilus ? U mention about you found their habitat right? So any news?

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