Albino C. gracilis

[fangsalot]

been all over PSL and the anoles are everywhere in the state...the scorps are nocturnal and the anoles are diurnal...so I am having a bit of a hard time saying the anoles are eating them....The scorps I collected on a key down there...I have also collected gracilis in PSL and never seen a light one...but there is another light colored scorp down there that has not got eradicated by anoles lol

WOW!been in PSL for years and ive NEVER seen a scorp of any kind.why am i not seeing them?where exactly have you guys been looking?

 

[telow]

im saying they stand out haha anoles are known to eat them
yes they are nocturnal ya think hahaha dam man hahaha
but being light like that they would standout in the natural habbitats
making them easy to find for preditors thats all im realy saying



but here ya go hahaha not so 1 of a kind anymore are they

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albino scorps :liar:

 

[telow]

WOW!been in PSL for years and ive NEVER seen a scorp of any kind.why am i not seeing them?where exactly have you guys been looking?

where have you looked so far there ?

 

[John Apple]

very cool pics...hahah had to there
Mine are pink as plings and those are yellow...still very cool as adults mine are yellow and those are orange-brown...have to take some new pics
as far as anoles eating them that has gotta be a very limited thing...there are habitats where these are in that they could hide being any color so I still think your grasping here...what's next.... are the corn snakes eating them cause they are nocturnal haha.vittatus [spelling] is yellow so the anole analogy does not work unless the anoles are digging for them or pealing the bark from trees

 

[telow]

hahahahaha yeah man take some new pics

im not saying attack of the anoles haha but they are a preditor to scorplings
even the fire ants are prey for them but corns peeling bark hahaha nut
with the anoles i was saying they would be targets for things like anoles
which eat everything .


anyways
what are your plans to do with them if you produce more
are you going to send any for DNA work or anything
they dont need to be ided
i think a dna report would be intresting on these then you would know for sure what this oddity is

but if anything i think its Leucism and not albinism im not saying its impossable

 

[John Apple]

yes A friend at Eastern is gonna do some work for me ...they also have some of the scorplings...neet color morph in any event...selective breeding will prove it out or will not
Ya know being Florida I bet they are getting consumed by any number of introduced geckos [which are nocturnal]...
yeah I was crackin on ya with the corn thing

 

[telow]

good good that should be intresting to see the findings
i would get more pics of them posted

i had a few C.sculpturatus gertschi pop out some c.s.g.
and normal c.s. babies a few years back
and i remember brianS had some Centruroides chiapanensis
that had popped out some broods with pale babies as well
then the gracilis in those pics and 1 more not in pics
but yeah man thats a pretty neat oddity you have all in all
haha and they are centruroides

hahahaha maybe my c. guanensis group will have "albino" babies hahahah

 

[Canth]

good good that should be intresting to see the findings
i would get more pics of them posted

i had a few C.sculpturatus gertschi pop out some c.s.g.
and normal c.s. babies a few years back
and i remember brianS had some Centruroides chiapanensis
that had popped out some broods with pale babies as well
then the gracilis in those pics and 1 more not in pics
but yeah man thats a pretty neat oddity you have all in all
haha and they are centruroides

hahahaha maybe my c. guanensis group will have "albino" babies hahahah

I was just going to bring that up! I had a few, but being a stupid kid, I let them die :/ I'd kill to have the collection I had 3 years ago!

Normal C. chiapanensis

Light morph

Centruroides are an amazing genus ha!

 

[telow]

jared if i could get my old collection back i would die bro
i miss all the species i had those days were fun
im getting them all back;P plus some hahahaha
3 or 4 years is long enough without them

 

[Canth]

jared if i could get my old collection back i would die bro
i miss all the species i had those days were fun
im getting them all back;P plus some hahahaha
3 or 4 years is long enough without them

Me too! Sadly, my days of a big collection are kind of short lived. We'll see how college works...

You better hook me up with those species

 

[fangsalot]

where have you looked so far there ?

ive lived right off of us1 in 3 differant places.also off of port st lucie blvd.never seen one scorp.

 

[telow]

right near 1 is psl river park there in there
and in savanna park or behind indian estates
also a few other spots but i cant think of them off hand

 

[bluefrogtat2]

mine...

thanks john...
andy

 

[syndicate]

Have any of the light colored ones produced young yet?
Interested to see if the gene is passed along!
-Chris

 

[John Apple]

Yes they have.....One large 'albino' female has produced ...being bred to a sibling she has produced a clutch with one normal scorp.[which was odd to me]...the 'albino' males are breeding with the 'het' females and the original mother.......this is an interesting and kinda fun scorpion and has fast become a fave
I have sent off some and sold some siblings from the colony so maybe someone else will produce

 

[lancej]

Do you have any updated pics?

 

[Lucas339]

yes i have been following this for a while. can you post an updated pic of adults.

 

[Dave]

I collected about 50 gracilis from a specific local and one adult was a pale brownish uniform color. Beetleman now owns it. Maybe what you have is similar to that.

 

[John Apple]

ummm yeah.....it is genetic...once her 'normal' sib sisters produce it should be neet also

 

[bluefrogtat2]

seems to be albinism to me...lol
andy