not for feeding. pure breeding. i have coco peat inside as substrate too. millipedes will be recruited accordingly. it seems that those normal millipedes have an population explosion a few months ago. they are everywhere now.

well fallenangel,those are whiskas cat food and they are safe, i even nibble on them from time to time. they are abit on the salty side.

plus i dont have kids in my room. this is at my camp not my hometown.

well actually i just let nature do the work for me. this tank was not clean or maintain for almost 3 month already.only last sunday i decided to clean it up. i was expecting rotting crickets and tons of very dirty rotting meterial but to my surprise there was none. only a kind of dust was at the bottom.

i thing that i always made sure to have are a ridiculous amount of hiding places. i use 4 egg crates in that setup. so there is ample room for them to hide. food i put on top but the as u know crickets they will dragg the food down. so what is left the small ones will eat while the big guys stay at the top.

and that is it actually. i dont have any other way of explaining on how i keep them alive till now. they survive 14 days without my care when i was in kl so i must be doing sumthing right.

rideon,

i think there is an excess of 150 maybe more cost there are pinheads in that enclosure. so i cant really say. like i said this is a breed and forget system and i am anticipating the sounds of the male crickets soon. i miss the chirps.the more the merrier.

This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 20 2009, 08:15 PM

i have no choice since there are no crickets being sold in sibu.

u sure got 1 kind of afs jamesiukini.

as i know afs are the most docile types of scorpions. i have about 20 plus of them and not even 1 tried to sting me when i have to rehouse them. and about cutting the telsons off , i give u an example to put my point about cutting the telson off:

"u are handsome,strong and muscular man but ur d*ick no power to erect when it matter the most. in bed"

that is how a scorpion feels without its stinger. put urself in that situation and see how u feel. it is the same with the scorpion. they need the stinger not only for prey but prorecreation aka breeding.

some rule of the thumb if u are really interested in keeping scorpions:

feed them
maintain them
keep them happy
dont handle them

thats all.

and please do research regarding your scorpions. there are alot of information regarding captive care and breeding of afs since they are a very popular species.

by the way ryo. like my new avatar?

This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 22 2009, 12:28 AM

i too have a scorpion that have the telson cut but not sure intentionally or naturally coz i found him in the wild.

it died after 2 month i care for it. but the scorp really in bad shape by that time. broken pectines and pectinals,really thin, broken telson.

a really mangled piece of scorpion but the most sporting. never show threat display. pinch only once in a while.

i miss that scorp.

om nom nom nom nom

as seen in the video, the padipalps are very large, a common characteristic of the spinifers which is easily distinguishable from longimanus.

and also the video title already says h.spinifer grooming.

got ryo pic meh here? i dont see one.

where got snail in there.
super mealworm la.

1 more video. really old.



enjoy.its time lapse. normally it would take hours to finish a mealworms.

well i can see 2 problems here lester in ur experiment.

1st the containers. they are round.

circle shapes tends to hold much better because the forces that is acting on them (ie gravity, molecular bonds,etc etc) are disprese evenly.

it is much better if u can try it in a square container.

2nd is the amount of in the experiment. that is too little to really tell either the clay and sand will hold up.

and for ur drying just put them in a microwave and it will harden nicely.

hahaha.

well unless u are going to make potery from the clay and sand mixture, microwaving it in a small amount of time is good enough.

basicly clay when dry will crack and become brittle. that is the nature of clay.

and clay will act differently from the way u dry it up,

air dry or sun dry?

but bear in mind that clay also can retain moisture when it is presented with it.

since u are doing a setup for ur desert sp and they are burrowers, there will be moisture under the clay and not on the surface.

just a reminder or maybe a suggestion, pre make the burrows for ur scorps especially the deep burrowers.

u get 2 good result from these.

1. u can see the behaviour of the scorpion in the burrows.

2. just in case the clay+sand mixture is a bit too hard then ur scorpions have a burrow ready made for them.

hmmm.rideon anything that is out of the ordinary on ur emp?

discoloration,fluids, other then the twitching motion?

on other news.

i have never seen my longi fight but today i don't k now what happen to a1 breeding pair. the male was stinging and apparently trying to tear his mate to bits. luckily i was aware of it and have separated them.

the female was none the better or the worse. looks a bit shaken up and the body doesn't look too good. i will post pictures once she has settled. she is a bit jumpy right now.

the male is a really large specimen. larger then any that i have currently.

i wonder what cause the male to be so aggresive to the female when most of the incidents regarding partners attacking each others are usually female that is attacking the male but this is the opposite.

this really stumps me.

erm but they were just 2of them. this is special honeymoon suite for them.
mana tau dah gaduh2 like this. haih.

it is starting to sound like a plot of a soap opera from latin america.

i started out with h.longimanus then.h.spinifer then the infamous L.australasiae.

and i'm not complaining. every scorpion and i mean every individual not the species itself is unique.

just enjoy ur first scorpion and always remember "dont handle them".

cheers.

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

first up . the ever famous but underrated


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 (after this sentence all is fiction. i really like this sp but still cannot afford it) took a picture of a new member of my invert family.



This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 27 2009, 09:24 AM

well now seems to be a very nice discussion surrounding the h.Hottentota.

how about if we reexamine the data on what type of scorpion this is. sometimes we might get our facts mixed up thus producing small errors in the way we care for them.

it is always a good thing to look to the past for advancement in the future.

well caresheets. hmmmm. i have only 3 sp of scorpions and all have the caresheet all over the internet so i dont think i will add to any benefit.

for the rest of keepers maybe they can put up the care sheet since they have more scorpion sp and have been in the field longer then me.

i only know how to breed crickets. lol.

well my guess on the sp would be an LA.

tried comparing it to the Chaerilus Celebensis but a few things were not found in the picture to support the id of Chaerilus Celebensis.

without more info on where u got it and the size of the thing its hard to id the sp and please give a nicer clearer picture. and since there is no positive id still and if it is a Chaerilus Celebensis plz handle it with care.