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Well it didn't go too well. I ended up having to just amputate right chela, and I couldn't free up the tail. Tried wetting it really good but no dice. It stressed her out a lot and I may have hurt something while trying to free the tail. She seemed just about dead this morning. If she's still...

She's stuck. I was planning on trying to get some small scissors to cut her out, but I wanted any advice I can get on here. I gave her a vertical climb but I don't think it was tall enough - only about 3 inches - because I thought she was gravid not molting. She's stuck by 1 claw and her tail...

The scorpions that looks most like emps are Heterometrus species. One way to tell them apart is that the bumps on the Heterometrus chela are usually striated/patterned. Based on that, both the pics look like emps to me, but I'm no pro. The good news is that Heterometrus are calm enough some...

I think the question is are all pedes supposed to be hidden 98% of the time ;)

This is maybe slightly off topic, but is there a reason males usually have more pectin teeth? Is it because they use their pectines to find a good spot to lay their spermataphore and females don't need such good sense to find where the male left it?

Step 1: put it in a sopping wet hot tank (like any emperor) Step 2: ignore it, except when you drop in a couple crickets every couple weeks or so (like any emperor) Step 3: separate the young at 2nd instar or so into individual deli cups

Also you can try a false bottom: fill the bottom of the tank with small rocks and water (an inch or two) then substrate on top of that. Humidifies from below

Cool, thanks guys.

Just got 3 new C vittatus - and they look great so far! pretty sure I've got 2 male one female, judging by the metasoma lengths. I have one question for folks here: how often are mistaken identifications a problem with these guys? I got them from Ken the Bug guy and I know he's got a...

Have any of you guys seen this? http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/10/27/internet-porn-fills-gap-in-spider-taxonomy/ Its a project for identifying female Linyphiidae and they're looking for anyone who has photos of identified species that the project hasn't included yet...

I've gotten that stuff too, not sure what it was. It didn't seem to hurt anything, but it was wierd so I switched to a different kind of substrate anyway.

now my other one just died. They were both P. Imps. They were in seperate tanks, she died about a week after him. I guess it must have been an infection or something, I don't think I was doing anything different than I've done for a long time. I just started giving them some heat lamps which...

He wasn't seeming good lately, and now he's dead. Its got me feeling all fatalistic now. blah. Stupid inevitability of death. I wish I got him to mate first, but he was too small and I was always afraid the female would eat him. I froze him, i guess I'll put him in resin this weekend or...

oh man i haven't been on here in ages. anyway: It sounds like you are/have been keeping other flat rocks for at least a little while, so if you are doing right by the others you are probably doing right by this one. Its possible your imagining it (I'm not kidding its so easy to notice things...

its because you didn't tell her how pretty she looks.

I think its probably gyrating, my emp has done it once. he just put his claws in the air and had a seizure. I posted about it and people said it was a mating display, but I had no female so I don't know. Now there is a female right next to him and I haven't seen him do it. Either way he was...

Im not a doctor but its probably the same thing that makes small or large human babies. Combo of genetics and available resources.

huh. Ok well that's two now and I trust you guys. I'll try to get a pic of his other claw later, because it's imbalanced and my pics didn't really do a great job of showing that. He has the membrane in the other claw of course, but it's not so large and noticeable. But if you guys say so I...

if its just a tiny break I bet it could heal with a molt. I don't really know though.

but isn't one side rather more prominant than the other?