Not all kicking Ryo. Some overdid the kicking part and kicked the bucket. But I'm really happy with the giants.

Wish to see them in real life
How big are they now?

1 more video. really old.



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

nice vids

---

Added on October 24, 2009, 4:47 pmsome pics to share (

6i Hottentotta Hottentotta muching



7i Rhopalurus Junceus ... i need to mate


Androctonus Mauretanicus i grow and grow in order to serve my master well ...


stike position ... ready to attack !!!


This post has been edited by s98432512: Oct 24 2009, 04:47 PM

lessily or lester kor kor?@_@
ur substrate is sand ?or pebbles?
Mix?lol

This post has been edited by tunemystylez: Oct 24 2009, 05:03 PM

lol kor kor
It's redang island beach sand rite?

yap
sand from the redang beach but part of it have been mixed with the play sand ... which i bought

tak kan jie jie gua?
haha...
@_@how much u brought back from Redang...lol

i think abt 1/2 kg

half kg is alot lerh?
or little@_@
saw many of your substrate using this type O_O
ah...nevermind,
continue with the topic=x

I still got some beach sand not yet use till now...
Too much sand since my YFT and P.Pallidus died
Btw my C.Balsasensis parcel arrived, cant wait to get back home

Rafiq, god answered 3/4, the other 1/4 is not there!!

talking abt sand ........

i tried some fine sand and earth clay together with water ... and i managed to scape some landscape in miniture container... till now so far .. i have to say the expected out come is better then i tot ... now will have to wait til it dry out to see the actual outcome

lol ....

Would like to see some picture

pictures always shows a thousands words ... alrite ..so let there be picture ..
sorry for low end picture quality.. lol ... my lously 4.2mp DC



as u can see there is one taller deli cup container.. the mixture is lay all the way up til the container top ...
wanted to try to see if the mixture is able to still stay intact after it dry out ...

the rest of the container were the normal type ... tired wif small container to see the out come first as i dun wan to wait for a long time for it to try out if i done a tank size construction .. lol

but again ... it might hold in a small container but nt for a tank ..well .. look like i have to experiment til then to see ..

anyway ...
as mentioned the container is freshly lay ... it is still wet ... i wonder how long will it dry up naturally

---

Added on October 24, 2009, 7:55 pmnice one ...

This post has been edited by s98432512: Oct 24 2009, 07:55 PM

Very nice, now u can make bump, cage, drainage etc in ur tank
I should try with mine when im free

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.

yap yap

do ask sam for more details on the earth clay lol ....

---

Added on October 24, 2009, 8:04 pmyou are right .... i did not tot of the container shape ...
round container do have a larger surface area than a square container... i missed that part out .......
hmmm .....

lol well like i mentioned ... wanted to get a feel in it first lol .. will try one bigger one ...
as for microwave .. i tot of that but decided to give it a pass as dryin gup too fast the mixture will tend to crack.. but if dry up naturally ... there will still be some water content in the inner part ...
it might still hold some water -humidility... which i think it is good... for example ... surface is bone dry but humidility is still there

what do you think ????



This post has been edited by s98432512: Oct 24 2009, 08:04 PM

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.

yes i do understand the clay issue.. lol ... btw when i picked up the red earth .. i was not reali that hard as i expected ...
i was hold a limp of it which i picked it up .. using two finger to hold on the top of the earth ... it was in tact and i am thinking to myself if it is too hard ..

but when i use my hands and act a little pressure over the lump , i was quite supprised that it break up easily...........

i collect about 1/2 kg of the earth back .. used to a small part of it and added more sand to it with water to loosen the structure further ...lol...

btw i find the idea of the pre construction burrow.. at the side of the tank glass ...i think it is cool to see them in their burrow ...

lol ....