Who ? Me ?
I like aboreal species more...big scorpions tend to be slow and lumbering.
C.arctimanus molted...
C.gracilis molted

Waiting for Lychas burdoi and asper...

balthasar, I heard you met my partner, koo,with Hussein just now. hmm... heard you can hand handle martensii also... wah.... really expert already wor... wait walton come up kl we yam cha la. you show us how to hand handle martensii.

Androctonus mauritanicus arrived

They arrive yesterday all well and healthy, only one think ... guess they r still pretty stressed up.. the don seem very cooperative at teh photo shot session! always running arD! :mad: so sorry for the bad pictures

does these containers look familiar to you? hehehe



rehousing......





Androctonus mauritanicus 2nd instar



feeding

Parabuthus 4th instar getting rough, hairy and fat tail!



Some Meobuthus Tamulus feeding Pictures





Vittatus fresh moult pictures -- 5th instar







H.spinifer moulted skins

hahah pls DO NOT HANDLE MARTENSSI! ... the sting not fun

saw randy pots in AB forum, he caught a Lychas mucronatus in Malaysia,.

This post has been edited by Scorpfanatic: Jun 9 2006, 09:13 AM

Uncle there is no martensii in Hussein's shop lar...
Ur partner didn't hear me well though...
And i didn't even handle it leh...my arctimanus was on his twig...all three and i lifted all 3 up by lifting the twig...is tat called handling ???
nudging them a bit to make them move ler...besides tat...no contacts with the lil demons...apalar...

???????????????? WHATS HAPPENING>>

wahh... both my spinifer's molted skin broke

NAh...nothing big.
I dun have any martensii and hussein dun have them at his place too. I was playin with my centruroides arctimanus so i guess Andrew's fren mistaken them as martensii juvies. Wasn't handling them but they were perched on a twig tats all i hold...not the scorpions.

Lost one babycurus last weekend coz the cricket that it didn't eat, instead, ate him. but guess its a gal...

Good news is tat the gracilis and dentatus kids are getting fat and round...and grew and also molted...gracilis are really like speedsters...

sorry to hear about it,, it happened to me when i jus started the hobby to thats y i awys remember to remove un eaten food be it deaad of alive !

no lar...u said we have werd....lol...martensii cheap species...its the only one we could afford...well i dint say u handle martensii...u told them both u can ma... its double confirmed by hussien

sifu..........

No ah...hussein no say tat oso...hussein said u were lookin for me very much...?
I dun have a martensii and how can i even hold tat... I havent even seen a live one too

Niway, no camera to take photos yet but its here

Androctonus australis (i tot it was bicolor but since its a AA, its even better)
Buthacus leptochelys
Scorpio maurus
1 more i think shud be an Buthus ocitanus la...but could turn out to be something deadly though...still checking

Ok did a quickie shot this morning.

Here are the pix of the deadly australis.

First pic supposed to be an armourexi...I'm not so sure. Walton...wats that ? Is it an armourexi ?

Second pic is The Australis...yellow fat tail...i like the black telsons

3rd is the Buthacus lepthochelys...color is damn mesmerizing

4th & 5th are of a single S.maurus...will get lots of this bugger...damn entertaining to watch it forever with the stingers up wan







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first pic, it scoul be a a.amou...2nd is aa.. 3rd is defonatley a Buthacus... but dono wat sub species., chances r you might be right ...

Ok...cool stuff...shud see the way it eats...yummy man...
Male has a nice tail...female stinger a bit broken liao but stillcan punch hole into food la...

looks like going everywhere showing off his scorps ehh......... make sure they don't escape ah.

Yeah lar boy...they are all accounted for...niway just added another female to my Androctonus collection...SWEET

Niway, Hussein has set up his Androctonus australis communal tank up...will see the results tomorrow. Hopefully it works

yeah...meet up this week end for yam cha? lol PM me ur phone lar...i show u real martensii. then u can show me how to handle

Venom potency observation from A.australis

No joke. Have u seen a brown cricket turn whitish in color in less than 10 second...? I dunno if its the effect of the venom or the dying crix turning white.

Also noticed tat the australis even when low on venom, will still strike the prey with the telson...prey die due to injury and massive bleeding. It just uses the hook to pierce the prey and leave it there...i dunno they do that always but tats what i observed...will pay attention to mine during the next feeding. Walton, care to comment on this behaviour ?

from teh time you get the scop till now i must say it hasnt get use to the new home. hence the stress maybe still there causing it to kill and not eat. and they wont be lack of venom, it slike saliva to them unless you milk the venom like scientist does .

as for the criz... i fdon thin it turn white because of the venom ... well i cant be sure of that!.

australis being a usual desert scorpion will sting its prey before eating due to its natural habitat in a desert, some times food don come by so ofetn, hence androctonus species usualy take everything of its prey even that means its gonna get very very fat they prob think that they may not get a prey in a long time so they do nbot take chance in killing a prey, meaning all wayout to kill anything and everything they wana eat, defense over, making it the reason y its the most deadly scoprion in the world, but they can be quite sluggish and slow/lazy when adult. thats y i never aqure them as yet but other androctonus species, but i will soon becsue i still love the Androctonus australis "libycus morph"'s fading black tail,... thats wat you have Australis ...