Congratulations Jarvis!! I don't know much about H. Madraspatensis but they are surely beautiful looking species!! :D
Hope everything goes well with other two species of Heterometrus you have.
sizes for two swammerdami mated
Female
Male
I'm just showing how big they really are and these pictures should clear things up.
Well they might not be the largest one you've seen in your life,
but certainly big enough for me and I'm very happy keeping these scorpions.
Bah...
Pectine shots from 3 different H. swammerdami for comparison
This is an adult male Heterometrus swammerdami I got recently.
I decided to take a photo from his ventral side for comparison with other two that I already had.
Although it's pretty hard to tell by just looking at this...
That's spinifer.
spinifer tends to have thicker or bulkier chela compared to longimanus
as length to width ratio being 2.4~2.6 in spinifer and 3.3~4.4 in longimanus.
(unless it's a female longimanus; ratio is 2.4, but the one showed on the vid is not a female longimanus)
From what I know, other...
I will!! I saw other breeding information on this species and looks like I have at least more than 15 months from now so I guess you're right, I really don't need to get nervous. But thanks for the advice!!
Well when you get a female, you can send me a PM or something.
Just let me know how you would want to work this out.
I'm open to any suggestions and I would love to help.
By the way, I love your G. ankarana. What a beautiful scorp!! ;)
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Thanx!! I'm glad you liked the pictures. I did feel sorry for them too when I was watching them mating in that small container but there was nothing I could do cause I never thought they would mate each other. But it was pretty interesting that they were so focused on mating and didn't care at...
yeah it's really hard to tell them apart by just looking at the underside.
Like you said, I would recommand counting pectin tooth but not something totally reliable because it's only one or two differences.
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LOL you guys...;)
Well I hope this helps!!
Heterometrus swammerdami Female Chela
Heterometrus swammerdami Male Chela
Heterometrus swammerdami Female Ventral Shot
Heterometrus swammerdami Male Ventral Shot
Heterometrus swammerdami Mature Female...
Thanks !!
Yeah, that's just a temporary home for them cause I have to move next month.
But I'll get a bigger and nicer home for them after that for sure.
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That's right I got pretty lucky on...
So here's the story...
I got two adult H. swammerdami on Tuesday (04/19/11)
and both were 'supposedly' females because that's what was written on the labels.
However, the larger female did act a little bit strange and I was wondering what would happen if I put them together.
So on Thursday...
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