This male certainly like his chick BIG. Hahahaha, hopefully he didn't become her meal which I doubt judging from the fully fed syndrome. BUsy yet manage time to watch babies being delivered and initiating sex for scorpions, hehehehehehe.

a question, as what been told, scorpion sometimes will be fasting.
i got my 2 scorpion from deathpion last 2 weeks.
once got it, my male scorp been ate about 6 to 7 cricks, female just about 3 to 4 cricks.
since then, my male been eating 2 to 3 crick/mealworms after 2 or 3 days.
but my female, after the 1st day, until now, just ate about 2 or 3 cricks/mealworms.
is it due to it gravid as what i been told, so her feeding will be reduce??

I din know that gravid will affect their appetite but 2-3 crix every 2 or 3 days is completely normal la
Mine only eat 5 crix every 2week

last 2 days just give my male 3 supermealworms.
today give again 2 super mealworms as well... all he take.
but wan to give to female, duwan... keep on refuse

Aiyo come on la, u are not 1st time keeping scorp right?
Different individual different metabolism, affected by a lot of factor like temperature, humidity and probably a lot more
Nothing to worry, really

haha... indeed i'm not 1st time keeper mah...
but then is 1st time got gravid scorps mah...

You should ask the people who sold it to you, reason it, they are most likely have experience with it.

For me, gravid or not, they will all feed like normal, unless when they are near birth, my balsasensis tend to reject food a few weeks prior to birth

Received my parcel today afternoon ...
2 H.Spinifer from Rideon ..
The size are smaller than my expectation..
Feed them 1 mealworm each..
They bite it and keep running like a kids..





Sorry for the poor picture quality , Taken using my handphone and bad resizing skill.

Thank god those scorps are alive.. was worrying after soo long in the parcel.. Its good that they hv started to eat.. keepup the good work

Thank god my scorpions are all alive too =]
Fallen in <3 to Hottentotta Hottentotta

Hey guys . . . What do u do when a 3rd instar Emp Scorp goes MIA in the hse? . . . Happened yesterday n so far havent found it back. How long do u think it'll survive ? :/

This post has been edited by Sarahlyf: May 18 2010, 02:13 PM

Try searching it with UV blacklight, if u have one
Where do u live? Maybe i can borrow u mine
Also try searching in dark, humid hide like under/behind ur shelf or anything

I'm from KK, Sabah. But thanks for your kind offer.
ya horr... I didnt think of that. Only searched with a regular torch. I got a fren who has a UV blacklight. will borrow from him.

Hope i find it. The 1st scorp who molt under my care. got a bit of sentimental value =p

Next time be more careful
Also i dunno if this will help but try putting a wet towel everywhere on floor
If ur room is dry and it is searching for water source, it should go and stay under the towel
This work for centipede, not sure bout scorp thou

molted 2nd instar




This post has been edited by s98432512: May 18 2010, 11:44 PM

My Adult H.spinifer escaped. The first place it headed was the bathroom which is kinda a distance. Tropical species tend to look for humid place to hide. s

Still missing
Been checking all areas that is 'damp' , 'dark', 'humid' . Tried the wet towel thing but my mum . LOL. Could hv escaped to the garden or maybe the doggie snack on it jor.

Time to say sayonara , bye bye little scorp. I'm sorry I wasnt a good keeper to you XD

Ld50. wtf is it and why it is there.

let start from the beginning. in the times before LD50, it was hard for scientist and doctor to know the lethality of drugs and medicines use to treat patiences. so a fellow named J.W Trevan develope the LD50 test in 1927 and since using "death" as the target allows comparisson between chemicals that poison the body in very different ways. since 1927 there are other types of methods in determining the median lethal dose which are far more accurate and faster the the one develope by J.W. Trevan.

What does LD50 means.

LD50 is an acronym for lethal dose 50%. some call it median lethal dose. but what ever they call it it means a simple thing. a lethal dose that was given to a number of test subject that killed 50% of the test subjects. usually mice and rats.While LD50 is great to determine the median lethal dose it only measures short term potential of a certain chemical. LD50 is usually expressed in mg/kg to the body weight of the test animals.

You may ask "but mice and rats are only a few hundreds gram in weight per subject". that is true but the solution is simple just weight the total weight if the rats and u get the kg part of the ld50 equation.

How ld50 test gets done.

In nearly all cases, LD50 tests are performed using a pure form of the chemical. Mixtures are rarely studied. just pure chemical forms except for venom research.

The chemical may be given to the animals by mouth (oral); by applying on the skin (dermal); by injection at sites such as the blood veins (i.v.- intravenous), muscles (i.m. - intramuscular) or into the abdominal cavity (i.p. - intraperitoneal).

The LD50 value obtained at the end of the experiment is identified as the LD50 (oral), LD50 (skin), LD50 (i.v.), etc., as appropriate. Researchers can do the test with any animal species but they use rats or mice most often. Other species include dogs, hamsters, cats, guinea-pigs, rabbits, and monkeys. In each case, the LD50 value is expressed as the weight of chemical administered per kilogram body weight of the animal and it states the test animal used and route of exposure or administration; e.g., LD50 (oral, rat) - 5 mg/kg, LD50 (skin, rabbit) - 5 g/kg. So, the example "LD50 (oral, rat) 5 mg/kg" means that 5 milligrams of that chemical for every 1 kilogram body weight of the rat, when administered in one dose by mouth, causes the death of 50% of the test group.

so is everyone clear on the concept of LD50?

good. if not please re-read the article slowly.


so how is ld50 important to us?

in simple terms it let us know how lethal a certain species of animal or chemical is. and it also helps the doctors to come up with a treatment plan for us if we ever had the unfortunate luck to be stung or poison.

i'm sorry for the delay of my article. i had work and my health was failing me. i hope any question can be answered by the comunity.

akagidemon signing off.

Nice to see you popping up, been wondering where were you. Take good care of yourself bro. BTW nice article.