If you ever, ever, ever feel like you want to give up your scorpion. PM me oneoone, I'm serious.

Btw, your scorpion is likely a Heterometrus longimanus borneensis. Normal planting soil works fine.

Good good. Keep it well and keep looking for more. Chances are you'll find more around your house, Lol! Captive breeding them will be an awesome treat!

God will punish you for that.

"Please good God, punish him for that."

I LOLed at the above statement.

Only two people I personally know had deaths with their hottentotta slings, one just as hard headed as the other.

If you're into reading, here are some materials that may be of particular interest. If you need more literature, tell me.

Link 1
Confirmation of reproduction by parthenogenesis in Hottentotta hottentotta
W. R. LOURENÇO & E. YTHIER

Link 2
Parthenogenesis in scorpions: Some history
LOURENÇO W. R.

Be very careful with it Ryo. No pun here.

Nice setup pics there. It's worth the effort, right..? The enclosure magnifies the beauty of these little beasts 10x. Congrats.

P/s:
1.You may want to have the rock laying solid on the base of the aquarium to avoid it collapsing on your little one while burrowing.
2. I also noticed that the black exoterra substrate is not really the best choice when it comes to scorpions. You will almost certainly find it sticking to the tail end. But it does make for a nice contrast. Still having my Australis on the substrate for this selfish reason. Lol!

Yes I do. Never bothered sexing. Lol!

Here's a pictie for shares anyway.

Looks like a stubborn subadult who has refused to moult from July till now.

It get's water from its food. I only do very light misting on one side of the wall once a month. Australis aren't known to be very big on moulting so I'm not really worried yet.

Key to squabbles and cannibalism in AFS is food. Tackle food and you most probably will have a successful communal setup right from the early instars.





After moult pic. A precious little Chocolate Morph Babycurus Jacksoni resting after a tiring day.

This post has been edited by rafiqos: Jan 23 2009, 12:52 PM

Dia tak mau makan.

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This post has been edited by rafiqos: Jan 23 2009, 07:03 PM

Pictures for shares.

Heterometrus spinifer tank. I have 5 of my first scorpions housed in here.



Tityus stigmurus setup.


and a Malayan Freshwater Crab (Johora sp.)? We found this together at FRIM, right Wilson? You looked like you were enjoying the hike, right before beginning to look pale and wanting to puke. Lol wtf wilson. I'm sure Liette will love you for that..



This post has been edited by rafiqos: Jan 29 2009, 10:59 PM

It's glass s12345. What is dim? I don't get you.

I know la you breed pubic crabs (Pthius pubis)...told you to stay away from those red light districts. They aren't real women anyway, just normal men with gender issues. Stay safe boi..

It's a second hand aquarium filter tank rideon. Cost me RM15. Spent quite some time converting it tho.

Those containers can be found in local plastic shops. Tall ones going for RM2.50.

Tell me if you can't find some near you. I'll post 10 containers there for 3 AFS scorplings you can find around Sabah. Trade?

Yes they are.

Fran Kovarik's Review on the Heterometrus genus suggests slight variations between the mainland (West Malaysia) scorpions to those found in Borneo.

What we can find in West Malaysia is limited to H. spinifer, H. longimanus and possibly small populations of H. Petersii (up in the northern regions). I am also looking for more information on another large black scorpion from the genus Palamnaeus that is either a fact or a myth. The ones shown in yhuii's picture are possibly H. longimanus borneensis.

More literature from Fran Kovarik available here: Link

This thread has begun to dispense free ignorant advice. If you get caught with a well packed bug on you/your baggage(that is not declared and doesn't carry proper papers), the act is considered an offense. It's called smuggling.

And no matter what you do to try and explain, the customs will not quarantine shito for you and send it to your home one week later. You may end up with just a slap on the wrist if you're lucky enough. If you're not, then it is going to be a whole different story. If you don't know how to, at least educate yourself enough before unfolding on others your innate genius masterplans.

And to those free advice dispensers, why don't you try thinking thrice before posting. It makes this thread look stupid don't you think? My 2 kupang.

Don't appologize lah..just hoping that people don't get trapped by nonsensical theories.

All these things are available in the material testing lab at my work place. But the materials guy here is arachnophobic. I brought a scorpling for him to help me work on and he literally ran away. Literally.

Nice scorpion. But are you sure about the freezing part? Freezing crystalizes water inside the body of the scorpion and makes for a whole lot of mess when you finally want to work on it. I've read before that chilling(not as low as freezing temp) a corpse works better.

Guess the species.