today one of my Hottentotta caboverdensis - parthenogenic popped .. with a brood of abt est . 10+ 1st instar scorplings on her back and many yellow pre - matured embroys along the way.
i was thinking why she pop when her time of pregency wasn't ripe.. a little disappointed to be frank but overall glad she make it with the little thinking back it might be due to over feeding which lead to this pre mature birth .......

some pics to share ......

the small brood


the pre matured babies ,....


btw...2 nos of my previous Hottentotta caboverdensis brood molted to 3rd instar today ...


i believed a few have encountered some problems with this scorpion when they are in their early instar ...
tot i share some of my experience here and hope it helps you guys....

my setup for the Hottentotta caboverdensis scorplings consists of a normal sauce deli cup with a cover on the top.
bedding i use a mixture of coco-fibre and play sand(fine) of ratio 50-50 of abt 1 cm thick. sand on the bottom and coco-fibre on the top.
coco-fibre is always damp but never wet . this is an important part imo, as too damp prove to be quite fatal for this scoprion when they are in their early instar...

Ventilation is the next main killer in combination of the damp coco-fibre .... many little small holes were punch on the cover and at the side of the deli cup to encounter this.
too little ventilation and i believe "over humidity" in the deli kills the scorplings..

A few small barks for hides and feeding of newly born laterias or crickets leg once very alt day.

Hope it helps and happy keeping this lovely Hottentotta caboverdensis scorpion.

regards - can't stop playing mafia wars .........

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Added on April 18, 2010, 12:51 ambtw deathpion ... congrats on the newly molted

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congrats on ur newly molting too ryo ... so i shall see say fastest .. 3months later you will be busy again .........

btw i am thinking abt the prematured embroys .for discussion sake .. . as Hottentotta caboverdensis are parthenogenic sp .. during their pregency period for this sp .. there are no male's spem to fertilise the eggs thru mating session . therefore would the embroys be unfertilized ??? sorry as i don't really undertand the bio of parthenogenic sp.

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Added on April 19, 2010, 10:33 amyes her first brood ...

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very interesting article.. Reproduction in scorpions, with special reference to parthenogenesis .. need sometime to digest .. will be back shortly ...

btw , i decided to proceed with the article on the Word of the Day: Parthenogenesis which is shorter lol ... . also an interesting article...
some point to quote for discussion sake ........

For explaining everyday life—babies, puppies, puberty—the mommy-daddy story of procreation works fine. But at life's edges, conventional biology, like conventional physics, breaks down. As you approach the speed of light, time slows and distances shrink. And as you approach extinction, genes find new ways to pass themselves on. Scientists call it "reproductive plasticity." A Komodo dragon manufactures a mate. A shark's got to do what a shark's got to do.

from the above quoted ....if it is true, does this means those parthenogenesis sp say our some of our scorpion sp are slowly moving towards extinction stage ?? or was it at a time near extinction stage before our time???? if either of the two is true... what can we do to help on this like our thread says: Scorpion Conservation in this prematured hobby of our locally........

would like to hear some views from you guys...... on this

We're not there yet, but we're on the way. Two years ago, British officials authorized human procreation using sperm, nuclear DNA from one woman, and mitochondrial DNA from a second woman. Three weeks ago, they proposed legislation that would approve the creation, for research, of "a human embryo that has been altered by the introduction of any sequence of nuclear or mitochondrial DNA of an animal." The categories we've taken for granted—mommy, daddy, people, animals—are blurring. We're losing our innocence.

wow just imagine that ........ !!!!!!! human reproducing of one self without the need of a mating from a male .... hmmm i don't like that

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Hmmm ....... nah ............not as pure as gold which i wish ......... just another reflection of what u are tortoise laughing the lizard ????

btw define real knowledge.. as mentioned by you ...since u said about real knowledge... let see ur real knowledge explained or is it just keeping quiet like the other few previous posts when asked .. no wonder so many people said so much abt you in msn chat ... lol can't stop laughing while i am typing this .. hahaha if u would in the chat too .. hahaha
anw .....



Scorpion conservation your interested? I am here to collect them not conserve them.
yes .. i am interested in conversation . if u are not then you go ur path i go mine and i prefer it that way if u were to understand my "english" i no "police" so can't catch u if u do not want to conserve any ... lol ...

stop harming the hobby by selling dangerous sp and potentially hazardous sp to our enviroment
guys ... all of u all .... chef say we are selling and harming .......... so shall we quit the hobby or what?? ... i see quite a few thread sell hots too ... and the replier itself ... " selling to anyone that seems genuine " ... ( self understood )

btw ... with request from others , many told me to leave you alone ... well ... this will be my last post to you .... enjoy ur day ...

p/s : if it is of any personal .. do drop me a pm .. i will reply via that ..


Anw aside from the above mentioned, chuk aside the issue and the person, i need to apologize here , with regards to conversation of scorpion . i rem.. sometime back a discussion was brought up ... wildcaught vs captive bred . havesting from the wild for selling WC sp and captive breed sp to provide for the hobby itself .... but sort of halt ...

many of us i believe go for CB sp as not to disturb the wild population .... some only allow WC sp for starting of new culture of sp. and 2nd generation onwards will be Captive bred before sold to provide for the hobby. do correct me if i am wrong ...

personally i think this a good way of conversation too......


p/s: deathpion congrats once again for the new molt

This post has been edited by s98432512: Apr 20 2010, 09:13 PM

one of my female Parabuthus transvaalicus scorpion molted from 6th instar to 7th instar.. finally matured and able to breed this sp..

kind of strange this time round for this molting. Normally from what i observed, all my current Parabuthus Transvaalicus scopion molt in flipped position meaning the back facing the sub, but this lady molted in not the usual flipped position but the opposite way ..... and the time took for final molting is much longer than usual too ...... took more than 15hrs so far and still molting..... is this usual ????...

anyone encounter this before? ..

yes still breathing .. and able to move once awhile like while in molting.... til now more than 17 hrs aready . and still molting ...........

thanks my finger crossed too

much improvemnt i must say.. most of it is out of the old exo ... left the stinger bud part .... do u think i shall exercise some aids on it ?
it is the first time it took so long for a molt to complete....... or is it because it is the last molting that why it is so long ?

hi guys thanks for the advises

some updates

actually i wanted to seprate the exo from the newly molt flesh when i got back home after work after much consideration taking into the factor of long hours of molting taken and also left a single section.. but i never have a change to do that ..when i got back.. the last section have came off by it self aready thanks god .. everything is fine . lol ...

i quite supprised by the numbers of hours it took for it to molt ..... so far the longest molting period i ever had ......
one pic on the newly molted



cheers

hi deathpion .. thanks

huh ?>?? who ???


thanks ryo ..... yes so far i have 1 matured female @ 7th instar , another 1 going to mature, female currently @ 6th instar and 2 matured male @ 6th instar....
so far now waiting for the newly molted female to harden it exo , pump it well with roaches ,mealworms and crickets before attempting to intro the male for mating........ also at the same time waiting for the other female to molt ........ if everything goes smoothly .. shall have two pair for breeding


btw who is harry ????

This post has been edited by s98432512: Apr 23 2010, 12:34 PM

a normal step up / step down transforemer from 230 - 24 vdc or 24 - 3 vdc might do the trick ... i believe such equipment can be easily get from the engineering department ...

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Added on April 24, 2010, 2:48 pmbtw do watch out on the amp delivered ... too high and it might fry the specimen

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Hi guys ,

was searching on some informations on this scorpion - Orthochirus Scrobiculosus Negebensis when i came across a pic of a newly molted specimen.

tot i share it here for thoses that did not seen a newly molt Orthochirus Scrobiculosus Negebensis before ...



pic taken from AB - Tabor - a very experience keeper and breeder of scorpion.

hi hi ..

look pretty much like a dead one to me ..........

hmmm ... RM58 * 3 = RM174 .. i dun think people wan to buy your dead H.spinifer for that price lor hahahaha
Lol.. personally i think the dead specimen is for photo shot only for his sale thread.

lol... good one ...

sorry sorry .... recently quite slow ... lol...

two pic on a 5th instar fat Emperor Scorpion from a scorpion lover friend
lol.. i must admit that he sure able to pump his scorpions fat too






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hI lonelystarz ,

do do a few pics of ur new AFS setup
hoping to see ur setup

cheers

correction. is 2 months. aug ~ oct

Hi bro long time no see well ... i not sure why it took so long too but DHL = deliver half way lost .

hi the tank look nice maybe u would like to spray more water

hi uncle, i am sorry for your loss.. yes i did lost a few due to changes too .. antz are able to take down smal scorpling ...it is a never ending battle for us

btw... one of my Androctonus Australis Hector(Tunisia) molted yesterday ..... XXXXXX & xxxxxx & yyyyyyy . hahahaha eat ur hearts out hehe



This post has been edited by s98432512: May 15 2010, 08:05 AM

one new brood today ......