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Means if i am allergic to venom then there is a possibility of death ?

How can i keep this scorpion ? dry it or what ?

eat it....

If you are allergic to venom the symtoms and effects can be much more severe. From normal swelling to fevers and vomitting. The worst case scenario is a coma or even death though I have never heard about scorpion stings though. Mostly bee stings have been reported to have brought death.

Can someone tell me what i should do if i want to keep this 1st ?

I dont blame them for that.
If one think a scorpion sting could put somebody to death or serious illness, then i admire his courage to kill the scorp so that it wont kill others in the neighbourhood.

I understand some scorpions keepers and yet my gang of tarantula keepers might not happy to see this. But imagine the situation now is an unharmful snake that try to crawl into your house and you dont know heck about snake, you probably thought every snake is aggresive and venomous to put you into hospital or coffin. What would you do?

Well maybe Vins need to take the blame for being ignorance about this creatures, and the the scorpion take part of it as for entering human territory.

Agree to that.
But sometimes I need to constantly remind myself that we are all part of the food chains before i can throw in a meal worms or cricket to my tarantula and start eating my kfc chicken. Im sure all those chicken that i ate and mealworms that i feed to my tarantula was never a threat to me, but why i kill them.

Read Herefor bite reports of the scorpions keeper.
Especially this one -> Homometrus Spinifer

Im not a doctor but it is still safe to say that very unlikely a malaysian scorpion will caused death to even those allergic to it.
And smellyocheese said, a peanut can kill you if you are allergic to it.

vei hon, how to keep this dead scorpion ?

Vei hong, i think it is human normal reaction. Not everyone had an interest in getting to know insect. Everyone have a different hobby. I am doing what the normal other human do. Its not that i purposely go look for one or it pass by my house. It is right on my feet and its crawling towards my house.

This pic is to show the size of the scorpion.

Some other pics of the scorpion ....

That's not big. Thought the size was as big as your palm. You must be a small fellar to drive a car. LOL! No point drying it. It will become disjointed to small pieces. Keep in formaldehyde(ah.....sure sp?).

Yeap. When i snap the photo with RM 1 notes that time only i realise it isnt as big as i thought it is. Anyway, it is still bigger than those baby type one.

Formalyne ? Where to get that ?

Sorry i really dont know how to preserve it.
Anyway that is a very nice scorpions.
Lucky you never get stung by it.
And even lucky you got to meet a scorpion, many of them in scorpions thread dream to meet one themself.

I know how to keep an alive one, dead one? Formalyne lo... maybe can get in pharmacies.

Okie ... Anyway, this is all i could give to the scorpion thread gang.



This post has been edited by Vinspire: Mar 28 2006, 03:44 PM

well like i said, if you dont have to, dont kill.

Now got a bit regret after seeing scorpion thread .... Should have keep it in the bottle or something before i feed it with the broom. What to do ... lack of knowledge in this

atlease now u know what to do next time.
u just throw RM30-50 away... hahaha.

if u keep tat..u can sell to ppl...can earn n won kill...so next time must remember dun kill...

you can get kileed by it if you have an allergic reaction towards its' sting.