Malaysian Blue fat, premolt or pregnant?

[MorbidArachnid]

Found her original Order confirmation. She is H spinifer. Just read to keep them communally until the end of the 5th instar. Guess instead of deli cups I will need much bigger enclosure.

How long/which instar until I can find them homes?

thats not a spinifer, seller misidentified. happens very frequently. you can start selling them at 2i, they dont have a huge die off rate like spiders do so the only restriction is their small size really.

 

[BriDia3]

She's blue she was bluer when I got her. The male she was in with was blue as well. What else could she be?

 

[MorbidArachnid]

She's blue she was bluer when I got her. The male she was in with was blue as well. What else could she be?

Heterometrus silenus, we said this. You can tell based on the granulation patterns, the lack of prominent spines on the top of the chela, the black telson, the smooth chela face, and the matte black appearance.

These are all pictures of my male, the difference in color is based on lighting. Compare how granulated the prosoma is, the spines on the chela, the light reticulation on the chela face, and the color. This ID was confirmed by comparing it to descriptions in these two papers: https://bioone.org/journals/bulleti...nae-Simon-1879/10.1206/0003-0090.442.1.1.full
https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=euscorpius

This is a male Heterometrus silenus, and this is a particularly reddish hued individual, but again, compare the granulation on the prosoma, compare the chela texture and the granules on the top edge, look at how the telson color matches with the rest of the tail.

 

[BriDia3]

Thank you for that detailed answer and the pictures. I get it now. Yes, you all did say that. I should have reread the thread. I read everyone's answers as soon as they posted and forgot that my question from tonight had been answered already. Didn't think there were so many species that can look blue. My area of expertise is more Tarantulas. Thanks again everyone for your patience and responses and again sorry for being slow to catch on.

Does anyone want to see/read Scorpling updates?

 

[BriDia3]

Heterometrus silenus, we said this. You can tell based on the granulation patterns, the lack of prominent spines on the top of the chela, the black telson, the smooth chela face, and the matte black appearance.

These are all pictures of my male, the difference in color is based on lighting. Compare how granulated the prosoma is, the spines on the chela, the light reticulation on the chela face, and the color. This ID was confirmed by comparing it to descriptions in these two papers: https://bioone.org/journals/bulleti...nae-Simon-1879/10.1206/0003-0090.442.1.1.full
https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=euscorpius

This is a male Heterometrus silenus, and this is a particularly reddish hued individual, but again, compare the granulation on the prosoma, compare the chela texture and the granules on the top edge, look at how the telson color matches with the rest of the tail.

The blue/teal color in your boy is beautiful I wish mine hadn't lost her color like she did BUT she gave me Grandscorpions