Centruroides sculpturatus new brood!

[gromgrom]

Also, video! skip to 0:28, has anyone else seen this out of their mothers? The tail waving I mean. Does it signify anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFWwQxxquQM&feature=channel_video_title

Thanks

 

[Kathy]

Hey, congratulations! How many babies do you think? I don't believe the tail moving signifies anything, I think it is just hanging there. Kind of like if we hang are arm down, hard to keep it still. But you never know.

 

[gromgrom]

first count at 12-17.

 

[Galapoheros]

Going by my own observations, it looks to me like scorpions not only feel vibrations but subtle air currents. The more communal or at least tolerant of other ones like some Centruroides, Pandinus and Heterometrus wave their tail when they catch food, the others close by do react to it. I think it's a way of saying, "Hey stay away from me, I'm busy, this is my cricket or ...leave my babies alone!"

 

[gromgrom]

gotcha. i know this one genus... cannot spell or remember the name, starts with an o, from the middle east uses their tails like antennae, and i figured it was something similar here.

 

[scorpionmom]

gotcha. i know this one genus... cannot spell or remember the name, starts with an o, from the middle east uses their tails like antennae, and i figured it was something similar here.

Odontobuthus odonturus?

And nice brood!

 

[gromgrom]

Odontobuthus odonturus?

And nice brood!

maybe... but i meant, and found it, Orthochirus sp. to my knowledge

 

[Envyizm]

Congrats on the brood. I'm glad I'm not the only guy in Ohio producing scorpion broods.

 

[gromgrom]

Congrats on the brood. I'm glad I'm not the only guy in Ohio producing scorpion broods.

im definitely settling down now and wanting to get breeding groups together. gonna focus on B. jacksoni and bark scorpions

Also doing a trade with a guy on here who mentioned you as being Columbus's premier guy.. Getting a gravid gracilis from him.

 

[Sir Aculeus]

Grats on the babies!

 

[Purpleorange8]

Also, video! skip to 0:28, has anyone else seen this out of their mothers? The tail waving I mean. Does it signify anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFWwQxxquQM&feature=channel_video_title

Thanks

Glad to see my C sculps are treating you nice <3

 

[gromgrom]

nope not yours! Well, might be, i got these from a certain big name vendor at a reptile show! The other male and female I had died shortly after I got them, but this person had them all for a long while, so they could have been old. :/

and i really didnt think i'd like this specie as much as i do.

Glad to see my C sculps are treating you nice <3

 

[Kathy]

Purpleorange...haha we have populated the U.S.

 

[Purpleorange8]

Purpleorange...haha we have populated the U.S.

Kathy we need to meet up and go herping

 

[shining]

nice to see someone else on a forum with c.sculpt brood running around!!!!

 

[gromgrom]

nice to see someone else on a forum with c.sculpt brood running around!!!!

yep. got 2.8.65+ running around. Starting to throw them on classifieds as i'm making bigger and bigger broods constantly every 3 months or so.

 

[GS]

Its amazing at the rate of success you are getting with this awesome specie my friend!
Not that you need to hear this again.. but..
Congratz!!

 

[gromgrom]

Its amazing at the rate of success you are getting with this awesome specie my friend!
Not that you need to hear this again.. but..
Congratz!!

Pshh, this species hasn't all been great. I had two bad broods of 2 and 3 respectively.

And that last gracilis brood I posted failed, she abandoned them and they were dead when I got to them. Only two survived.

But, I'm expecting another brood of these guys within the next week or so.

 

[shining]

sheesh sounds like you got your hands full!
i seperated them today and the count was 20,21 plus the momma.

 

[gromgrom]

one more popped, believe its brood 9. looks to be 15 (the mother is incredibly tiny)

but theyre nice sized babies