joeysgreen
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- May 16, 2007
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My first scorpion, and I'm a newbie to inverts altogether. This baby flat rock scorpion was pretty cool, and I knew this species to be large enough to handle but not potent enough to be alarming. So thinking it was a good starter species, I buy it.
Once home I look more closely at it. It sure doesn't look like any flat rock I"ve seen at reptile shows or online. Perhaps it's just immature I convince myself
A fed it baby roaches every day
and it soon shed it's skin... it's about 1 inch long at pic time
It's more than doubled in size and is a beautifully patturned, agile 3" long scorpion. This is it's third shed with me, about a week ago.
So I take this critter, now believed to be big enough to share with friends at a herp meeting and pic it up with a spoon to let it crawl around on my hand. Soon it's confirmed to be nothing of the like and probably a centroides spp. They also said it could very well be dangerous and I should be more carefull until positively ID'd.
With some help from friends and this board I believe it to be centroides gracilis. Is this correct? Are the stings any worse than a bee sting (my limit with having a young son around) I have it on moist but not damp peat moss and mist each day just a little. Baby roaches are devoured. How big will this guy get, and can I improve it's care? I'm about as green as they come to inverts and am learning lots every time I visit this site![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
It was dumb to trust the petstore on this purchase :wall:
Ian
Once home I look more closely at it. It sure doesn't look like any flat rock I"ve seen at reptile shows or online. Perhaps it's just immature I convince myself
A fed it baby roaches every day
![](http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g315/joeysgreen/pets042.jpg)
and it soon shed it's skin... it's about 1 inch long at pic time
![](http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g315/joeysgreen/pets003.jpg)
It's more than doubled in size and is a beautifully patturned, agile 3" long scorpion. This is it's third shed with me, about a week ago.
![](http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g315/joeysgreen/DSC02025.jpg)
So I take this critter, now believed to be big enough to share with friends at a herp meeting and pic it up with a spoon to let it crawl around on my hand. Soon it's confirmed to be nothing of the like and probably a centroides spp. They also said it could very well be dangerous and I should be more carefull until positively ID'd.
With some help from friends and this board I believe it to be centroides gracilis. Is this correct? Are the stings any worse than a bee sting (my limit with having a young son around) I have it on moist but not damp peat moss and mist each day just a little. Baby roaches are devoured. How big will this guy get, and can I improve it's care? I'm about as green as they come to inverts and am learning lots every time I visit this site
It was dumb to trust the petstore on this purchase :wall:
Ian