How to preserve liquid scorpion venom for long period of time

[Oyeh]

Hi guys, please I want to preserve my liquid venom, and I don't know how to, please I need help.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Venom usually has a pretty short life before degrading once it's outside the scorpion, venoms are usually large proteins that break down easily. Why do you want to preserve it?

 

[Oyeh]

I want to preserve it for sell

 

[darkness975]

Pretty sure it requires some intense machinery to preserve it in any kind of viable condition.

 

[Oyeh]

Pretty sure it requires some intense machinery to preserve it in any kind of viable condition.

So what is your advice

 

[sasker]

Who would want to buy scorpion venom and for what purpose? Is there a market for this stuff? If it is for the creation of anti-venom, I think the institute making the anti-venom would prefer life specimen that they can milk themselves. If it is for anything dodgy (creation of 'alternative medication') I doubt you would want to get involved.

 

[NYAN]

Who would want to buy scorpion venom and for what purpose? Is there a market for this stuff? If it is for the creation of anti-venom, I think the institute making the anti-venom would prefer life specimen that they can milk themselves. If it is for anything dodgy (creation of 'alternative medication') I doubt you would want to get involved.

Somewhere on the Internet it was said that scorpion venom is the most valuable substance on earth.

 

[NYAN]

I’ve seen people use dry ice and methanol for snake venom. Not sure how long it preserves it for though. I assume it could be used for scopion venom..

 

[sasker]

Well, that still leaves many questions unanswered

I mean, just any scorpion? Why is it so valuable?

 

[NYAN]

Well, that still leaves many questions unanswered

I mean, just any scorpion? Why is it so valuable?

I think medically significant ones. I think the purpose is for research, medicine or antivenom.

 

[NYAN]

It says a gallon is worth 38 million dollars. But the problem is you would need thousands of scorpions to be milked by more than one person daily. It really doesn’t yield much profit I think for how much work, space, specimens and time is needed.

 

[sasker]

I just did a quick search on the Internet. I found this:

https://drhealthbenefits.com/herbal/benefits-scorpion-venom

So before just grabbing the first scorpion you can find by the tail and starting to squeeze out the venom from the poor animal's stinger, I think it would be wise to look into any potential buyers. They will also be able to tell how the venom should be delivered (again, I suspect life specimens, rather than the venom itself as this is how it also works with black widows and Australian funnel webs) and from which species exactly.

 

[Oyeh]

Who would want to buy scorpion venom and for what purpose? Is there a market for this stuff? If it is for the creation of anti-venom, I think the institute making the anti-venom would prefer life specimen that they can milk themselves. If it is for anything dodgy (creation of 'alternative medication') I doubt you would want to get involved.

Hehehe, go to Google and search for the use of Scorpion venom, I belt you will be interested,

 

[Scorpionluva]

You will need a cryogenic freezer to store it and a state of the art lab set up to do the milking properly and you'd also need many specimens to milk at around the same time for the venom to stay viable or to be of any useful amount
Initial start up costs of such a lab is up to or over a million dollars so unless you have 1000's of the species that are currently used in medicine or the species that are currently being studied to be used in medicine soon ... id say it's not a legitimate venture to just milk and save the venom from a couple specimens

 

[Oyeh]

You will need a cryogenic freezer to store it and a state of the art lab set up to do the milking properly and you'd also need many specimens to milk at around the same time for the venom to stay viable or to be of any useful amount
Initial start up costs of such a lab is up to or over a million dollars so unless you have 1000's of the species that are currently used in medicine or the species that are currently being studied to be used in medicine soon ... id say it's not a legitimate venture to just milk and save the venom from a couple specimens

Thanks bro

 

[spookyvibes]

Huh, has me wondering if anyone off Craigslist will pay me a few grand for some Copperhead venom

If you're looking for a quick buck, I don't think this is the way to do it

 

[Scorpionluva]

Thanks bro

If you are seriously considering this as a way to make money from it- start in the right direction by acquiring as many specimens as you can , keep breeding as many adult pairs as you can and keep all of the offspring to raise up and do the same it's not going to be a get rich overnight story but with the current species being developed into many useful cancer cures ... it is still a very wise long term commitment that will be worthwhile with some time , money and effort put into it
I'm currently keeping all my specimens of 2 species being used in medicine and several other species that are showing promise
Best of luck to you with it !

 

[Oyeh]

Huh, has me wondering if anyone off Craigslist will pay me a few grand for some Copperhead venom

If you're looking for a quick buck, I don't think this is the way to do it

How do you mean

 

[ShyDragoness]

How do you mean

it is not a quick way to make money it would take a long long long time and a lot of money

 

[spookyvibes]

it is not a quick way to make money it would take a long long long time and a lot of money

This is what I mean. It's more trouble than it's worth in my opinion. If it's something you really want to do and you're passionate about, go for it, but if it's just to make money, I don't see you profiting off of it anytime soon.