Well that's actually a very very sad opinion for somebody who keeps scorpions. The price never should be the first to think of. May be sometimes some people should think more "social". First of all Heterometrus sp. are not endangered in wild like the P.imperator probably is, i thnk this is reason enough not to buy theses scorpions as wc and obviously almost all P.imperator are WCs. As you said the are almost the same so there is no adequate reason why somebody decided for P.imperator if not the price is the reason. This is very sad because so many people pretend to love their pets but actually the mpst of them love to have their pets. The pet itself just comes in second place.
ACTUALLY i never was referring anything to you personally. On the other hand you related everything to you personally and claim that i have said everything about you personally. So who put words in somebody's mouth? Just you, which is kind of funny because you accuse me that i was doing that. For example you claimed that i think all of my opinions are correct because i am more experienced. I didn't say anything about wrong or correct opinions, especially not in relations to my experience. Of course everything your said first was right, i never doubt that i just said that it's a sad opinion especially if the only possible interpretation of that single sentence is a kind of recommendations to buy P.imperator because they are cheaper. If you do want to say something different you can't just say they are almost the same but more expensive. I know in times of Facebook, Twitter etc the people's many people don't take the time to say exactly what they want to say, sometimes if think some people think that all the others know what else the person had in mind, but didn't wrote.
You have clarified the confusion, but you still have told me that my opinion is a wrong/poor opinion to have. You have no right to claim my opinion as the wrong opinion. Also, I wasn't putting words in your mouth, I stated the fact that it appeared that you did. Course that can be blamed to poorly expressive text. I also never said that a Pandinus imperator was a better alternative to Heterometrus sp. Lastly, I said what I meant. I think that they are very similar in care, looks, and genetically too. To me they are no better than a Pandinus imperator with slight color variations. Also, don't make it sound like my anger got a hold of my words. I know what I want to say.
were all from the same hobby aren't we? so why wot we just talk about the things we love ( scorpions ) :0 . anyway, thanks to your opinion mr. G. Carnell, but sadly we don't have H. fulvipes and H. xanthopus here available in the market. It's really hard to make a decision cause both species are really nice. good thing there will be an upcoming inverts show. I just hope both H. swammerdami and H. madraspatesis are available ....
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