care for baby desert hairies.

[rainman]

i have them in deli cups with an inch of sand and feeding them 2 pin heads a week. i'd like to know if their's anything else i should do. when should they get their 1st molt? when can i move them to a tank?they're still white. i've already lost about 10 all together right after moving them. i've got a lot left still. if i can get some fast info on care for young from u guys, i'd appreciate it.

 

[Kugellager]

These guys are very difficult to raise to adulthood...if you can manage to do it you would be the first. Ed (Atavuss) is the person I have heard make it the furthest so far...4th instar for a few of them I think?

Good Luck.

John
];')

 

[rainman]

i just sent him a PM asking him for advice. i just wanna get them through their 1st instar. cuz i hope i'd be in the clear after that to keep them alive. they're 3 weeks, how much longer til 1st instar?

 

[Kugellager]

They are already 1st instar if you have had them for three weeks...2nd instar might be several months as Hadrurus sp take several years to mature...though they may live as long as 20+ years.

John
];')

 

[rainman]

they're still white. how long til they get their color?

 

[atavuss]

Originally posted by Kugellager
These guys are very difficult to raise to adulthood...if you can manage to do it you would be the first. Ed (Atavuss) is the person I have heard make it the furthest so far...4th instar for a few of them I think?

Good Luck.

John
];')

the ones that just molted would be 4th instar. I left mine with the mother until they had all dispersed from her back and they did not run to her for protection anymore. it has been at least 10 months since their last molt. as per personal communication with Strider Smith they molt around once a year.
Ed

 

[jper26]

Rainman any special reason you took them off the mothers back so soon?

 

[rainman]

yeah, the fact that one of the mothers was already eatin the young and i wasnt gonna risk it with the other one. i was like, flick it, so i took them off

 

[atavuss]

Originally posted by rainman
yeah, the fact that one of the mothers was already eatin the young and i wasnt gonna risk it with the other one. i was like, flick it, so i took them off

when I noticed my h. spadix had given birth I put her in the closet in my herp/invert room and did not disturb her for weeks. if the young are/were still white you may have removed them too early IMHO.
Ed

 

[atavuss]

Originally posted by rainman
i just sent him a PM asking him for advice. i just wanna get them through their 1st instar. cuz i hope i'd be in the clear after that to keep them alive. they're 3 weeks, how much longer til 1st instar?

check your pm, I replied to you last night

Ed

 

[rainman]

well.............holy crap then. i'm crap outta luck cuz i already moved them all after i witnessed one getting eatin. it was either that or take a chance on moving them. so i moved them. most have already died now, so i'm just fixin on buying more adults and trying again

 

[jper26]

The scorpions that you raised and traded to a pet store did you take them off the mothers back right away?

 

[rainman]

i traded most of the spadix ones for an adult male, or female. i cant remember. the rest i was raising have all died now. i have no idea why. but with my new found knowledge i think i'll know in advance for future cases. but hey, at least i got another desert hairy outta the deal. but i really cared for those babies. lame how they just died after i had everything right. i think it was form me moving them from the mother's back right away. it was see them get eaten, or try and save them. i lost them either way. lose-lose situation i guess.

 

[Frank]

Maybe the mom just ate one that was too weak, maybe she wasn't eating all the batch.

Frank

 

[rainman]

yeah. that could be an answer, but the risk was still there though. i had no choice, man.