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Cedar and pine beddings are toxic for rodents/rats , they damage the respiratory system. So i guess the 2 females you had may have died because of that, but i'm not sure tho. Anyway i'm sorry to hear about your loss but i hope you can find lots of new joy with the 2 black hoods ;)

Sorry to hear about your loss. I had my adult male rat die on me about 3 weeks ago, and it was mostly my fault as i was misinformed on the importance of air circulation (shop keeper told me to keep em in some plastic enclosure which too make matters worse was way too small for an adult rat)...

Congratz with those mate, your C. hentzi looks amazing.

Hey. H. spadix :)

why is it assumed that the prey should be killed ? Isn't it the purpose of a neurotoxic venom to paralyze it's prey? When paralyzed they just eat it "alive"?

mm nice specimen :) congratz with her.

Nice scorps there , i wonder do you keep the 2 H. arizonensis in the same enclosure? If so, what's the size of the enclosure and have you had any probs yet ?

Hehe very nice scorplings there mate. Good luck with them and hopefully for you a second gravid C. vitattus soon :)

omg very nice room :) , i think most of us can only dream about this :) so organized hmm, my room tends to have books and bottles of coke everywhere :) but my scorp corner is allways clean :)

Tho i totally agree with you i do have a comment on this statement :) I agree with the fact that scorpions are kept because they are fascinating and we want to study their behavior. But doesn't that include the feeding of for example a mouse. It's a total other prey then a cricket or hopper...

Same here , don't want to get them too fat , i think they are more elegant when they are skinnier (sp?) , that's also why i prefer the smaller species tho i know H. spadix aren't considered small :). Well i had to begin with something right :rolleyes:

Yeah mine also eats like a pig , but i'm putting him on a diet now lol , otherwise he would crunch through 4 hoppers a day ;)

I'm pretty sure it was a mouse , and if i remember correctly it wasn't much bigger that your regular house mouse. Going to check google if i can't find any info on the "Grasshopper mouse" and i'll post the url and here it is : http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/onycleuc.htm

hehe ye , well i think the mouse i'm speaking of is a "Grasshopper Mouse" , not sure tho , been a while..

hehe funny you mention it , i actually saw a documentary on some sort of desert mouse/rats (can't remember) that ate scorpions on a regular base. They just taunt the scorp to sting and when they do they evade the aculeus and bite of the metasoma , bye bye scorp :eek: and it does happens...

My H. spadix uses its pedipalps to remove sticky sand from it's front legs, smart little fellow :worship:

I have to agree with this :) , i think it's a logic step once u feel comfortable handling solitairy scorps. And a communal scorp setup sounds very fascinating :)

thx for sharing this , might do the trick for my H. spadix. How's Sting doing ? Did he try to climb the corners of the terrarium yet ? It's quite funny :rolleyes:

Very nice looking H. arizonensis mate :) Hope you enjoy it , it's a wonderfull scorp and such a sadist, keep pumping that venom, poor hopper :rolleyes:

Hehe well i'm not complaining in any way :) , thx for the feedback