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Does she have her tail backed into the corner of the tank? All my gravid ladies would do that a few months before popping.

I have a set of siblings from an old wc mom that was huge, and they all ended up huge as well. They also took 3 years to mature, carried for over a year, ate their mates, only produced one set of offspring each with bad survival rates, and half have already died of what I think is old age. I am...

P. imperator

You know, I never thought about it before because he was so tiny compared to some of his sisters, but with his claws folded up to his body and tail straight out he just fits in a quart size mason jar which is a little over six inches. That whole brood was huge, but so was their mom! It was what...

My last adult male passed today so I was finally able to get a couple of good pictures. He was unique in that he had a completely black telson. I was just wondering how common this is? He was born here to a wild caught mom, just over six years ago. None of his siblings had dark telsons, but I am...

Thank you! I will do that. I am not sure of the species, it's these guys:

One of the hunks of wood I brought in for them had isopods hiding it and I did not notice until the woodlice started having babies. Is it a problem to have them in the same enclosure? Will it affect the millipedes at all, or their reproduction? It would be a serious pain to try and sort them out...

How old are the slings? They will do cleanup on any that were born imperfect or that may have had a bad molt when they're still tiny. I've read that they will sometimes snack on them as well if they get hungry enough, or to regain energy immediately after birth but it's not something I've...

There's a good care sheet pinned. I use a deep moist substrate like cocofiber or organic peat moss so they can bury and so the humidity stays high, rewetting as neededto keep it moist but not flooded. Some airflow is needed but they are tropical so need 80% RH or so which usually means a...

Mine preferred large roaches over everything else, but due to allergies I was forced to switch to crickets. They won't normally chase down dinner so it takes longer for them to catch the crickets. I try to keep the room over 80 for them at all times, and it gets into the 90's in the summer. I've...

I have one male left, and then the mated pair. Didn't plan for two cases of cannibalism and a sudden death, figured I might only loose one or two over the years. Had to buy back a male I sold last year just to keep my breeding program going. I'm almost in the same boat you are! Finding ready to...

Broken tiles or pots will work for a hide, it doesn't have to be fancy - just something for them to squeeze under and form the roof for when they start digging. Given enough substrate (I use 6 to 10 inches of pre-moistened peat moss) they will eventually make their own caves and tunnels, but...

Very much, I have a group of sisters that have about 3 inches difference between the smallest and largest, and one female whose claws are two to three times the size of the others. Visually the largest looks to be almost twice the size of the smallest. Males tend to be smaller yet, but the...

All three look female to me. #2 is either overfed or preggos, can be hard to tell until they deliver but I'd go with preggers based on her shape. Do you know what happened to cause that weird gap on her abdomen? Usually they stay pretty evenly spaced.

I've tried finding reliable identification information for a few years now. Found one paper showing the location of trichobothria on all Pandinus species from that area of Africa, although it's no longer online and of course I forgot to save it. Even with the guides it's hard to locate the right...

Have you tried searching scholar.google.com ? It's a great resource so long as you already know what keywords you're looking for.

When my first emps were that little, I was pre-killing prey by head crushing. Some little ones catch on fast to feeding on their own, but they do feed from their parents for longer than the first year (up to 4i, 5i) if they're left together and some are slower to figure it out. Finding the right...

I take back everything I said. Spiders are great! They're wonderful. Nope not scared of them. They do not need to try to convince me by sending a wolf spider to crawl up my leg while in bed after speaking badly of them, really, s'all good... *shudder

I'm freaking terrified of native spiders, but I breed scorpions and do fine around adult T's. Slings make my skin crawl because they look like native spiders but at least they're always contained. I still consider myself arachnophobic. It's something about the legs. Whenever I have to get up...

I do 4 to 6 crickets a week, especially for breeding females, so that should not have been the issue. With the attitude change and the bloating it does sound like she is gravid. I have a blurry photo of one of my females from a few years ago where she looked like a sausage with legs right before...