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The male was doing all the mating dance juddering stuff and is physically smaller.

No they were both from a reputable breeder. I missed the fight. Strictly deductive reasoning.

Sadly my dictator pair had a fight during a mating attempt. The female was stung in the telson and died, the male got stung in the left arm somewhere and seems to have nerve damage. He holds the arm close to him and it quivers when he tries to use it. Pretty crappy feeling after all the work and...

When do they reach maturity?

It appears that my two dictators are male and female. One developed much quicker and larger than the other. They dug a burrow together about a year ago, but the smaller individual recently moved out into a half coconut about 24" away. It's a 100 gallon planted tropical tank. Now he is hanging...

The other day outside the burrow of my two dictators there was a severed claw. Like the whole claw. Not molted looking but the finished black color. There was a scrap of dried up meat looking stuff at the hacked off point. I was pretty sad. I figured I had waited a tad too long to feed the pair...

Thanks very much

Thank you!

Thanks, about an hour to draw him from life and reduce it to line art, another hour to stripe it

I have to do the other side now.

I pinstripe hot rods and bikes for a living. I thought I'd work on my tank a bit today...

Update: I checked on her this morning. All is well. She survived intact and unharmed. Apparetly these animals don't suffer from shock like fish or birds do. I have quite a few doctoring episodes under my belt over 30 plus years involving all manners of life. The worst one ever was facial...

How did it go?

Yeah I took a lot of little breaks. Had to stay calm myself too. Holding her with that wet Kleenex seemed to help her relax.

once a weakness is found in the component, the tweezers or scissors can be used to destroy it. Sometimes I pushed the needle up into My own finger to crack the shell and then I had a ridge to get the scissors in. The whole time the scorpion is going nuts and thrashing hard. Especially when...

This is the rupture point as indicated by the needle. Everything forward of that remained attached to the scorpion with only the front limbs fully encased.

Thanks! Yes conditions were optimal. Its tank mate successfully molted three days prior. A split occurred in its exoskeleton at a weird place during the molt. It would be akin to taking your sock off and having a while section rip off and stay on your leg. The stinger was still too floppy to be...

Another thing, this scorpion had become seriously overgrown in its old body. I think that may have contributed to the ejection malfunction.

My dictator got caught in its molt today. The whole entire front limbs to the body. It took two hours of every pair of tweezers and blunt leather needles in the house to free it. My observations are as follows: the exoskeleton is as tough as popcorn shell. The more convex the panel, the higher...

Excellent! Thank you for showing us that!. I'm excited by the dog like eye with patina. I'd have never thought they'd have eyes like that.