Desert hairy scorp care

[anythingoes]

Practice what you preach

I like the way you took a quote of mine and changed the word tarantula to scorpion, and the word animals as a whole to animals first. So therefore it isn't my quote and shouldn't be quoted. It would have been smarter if you had left it exactly what I had said then I would have found it amusing.

In direct response to your above statement these scorpions can hardly be called large, they get to 4' max right? when emperors get to 8' ocassionally.
Whats difficult to look after about keeping a dry cage and replacing the water every so often.. surely you should revise what your trying to say.

I have sufficient knowledge of scorpions and tarantulas and because this variety are from the desert whereas I'm used to looking after tropical scorps, and tropical tarantulas I wanted some heads up. What you said does not apply to me, so I suggest you try not to be smart.

Secondly I have owned scorpions in the past being of the more calm disposition Ive held this little guy and he is in no way as aggressive as someone mentioned, also I have read up the venom isnt potent and because of his small size i'm not that worried in the event that I do get stung.

I have a lot of experiance with tarantulas and lesser experiance with scorps. But I know the danger involved with these animals and I'm sure I can handle looking after a small scorpion when I own some of the larger more aggresive T's.

When you own things like Goliath Birdeaters, King Baboons, baboon spiders in general and have owned scorpions in the past.

Also thankyou to everyone that has provided some 'helpful' information.

Thanks for your time.
Ryan

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[ "I have sufficient knowledge of scorpions and tarantulas and because this variety are from the desert whereas I'm used to looking after tropical scorps, and tropical tarantulas I wanted some heads up. What you said does not apply to me, so I suggest you try not to be smart.

Secondly I have owned scorpions in the past being of the more calm disposition Ive held this little guy and he is in no way as aggressive as someone mentioned, also I have read up the venom isnt potent and because of his small size i'm not that worried in the event that I do get stung.

I have a lot of experiance with tarantulas and lesser experiance with scorps. But I know the danger involved with these animals and I'm sure I can handle looking after a small scorpion when I own some of the larger more aggresive T's." ]


Now i'm rather new to scorps - i've an indian ornamental femal 6" leg span at present, a peruvian velvet roughly same leg span though much bulkier specimen in regards to build, a emperor scorp 1" total length and a desert scorp around 2.5"


Now by the way you portray ourself and the knowledge you provide is very knowledgeable but to say a small scopion sting is nthing to worry about - i find mad - the saying goes the smaller the scorp the more potent the sting.


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anythingoes

 

[edesign]

I have not heard the size being a general rule.. Fatter the tail, the more venomous. In general.

 

[zonbonzovi]

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Read last post date:sarcasm:

 

[snippy]

I have not heard the size being a general rule.. Fatter the tail, the more venomous. In general.

Even as a general rule, that does not work There are huge amounts of exceptions, i don't think you might even want to say that venomousness (is that even a word??) and thickness of the metasoma correlate in any significant way.

Regards
Finn

 

[darkness975]

What's up with the influx of zombie threads lately? The last post was from 2006 until yesterday.

 

[yames]

Dude that angry kid is 26 now this is like a time capsule of awesome! Zombie flame wars are the best you should PM everything they typed back to them. Nothing makes you feel as smart as reading your own ridiculous internet trollings.

 

[Nanotrev]

I was going to say... I saw parabuthus and one of the really ancient admins in this thread, two people I've not seen since the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Makes me wish para was still here, I could tell him about my success with getting H. arionensis to adulthood. Meh.

Maybe there's an evil thread necromancer possessing people.

 

[Greenjewls]

Really? well how big do they get to?

Here's one of mine that is 4.4". Pallidus should easily get to 5". To clear up some other details - temperament varies, between individuals and also on any given day. I have some that are always super aggro and some that are aggressive about 5 days out of the year. Usually if they sting they give a dry poke or a little drop, but there's a 5% chance they will dump everything and that would be much worse than a bee sting. I've been tagged in the wild about 30 times and by captives maybe 3 times. Do not keep them super dry, 20-50% should be good. Burrowing substrate is mandatory if you want a happy hairy, they live for tunneling! You can search my scorpion posts if you want, I've been typing a bunch about this species recently. I've been keeping these for about 25 years and they are great active scorpions if given the right conditions. In the wild they are most active at 90 degrees and 40%, but it is best to give them a gradient. If yours is not an adult, you will probably lose it because they rarely survive molting (in captivity).[video=youtube;vvY9TKodaO8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvY9TKodaO8[/video]

---------- Post added 10-16-2012 at 08:52 AM ----------

damn the zombie got me too.... need to pay more attention