Poll: Scorps vs. Ts (owners of both only!)

[scar is my t]

i have a scorpian........ok not in real life but in the back of my mind but yea t's i think are better and less deadly i meen who here wants to die?

 

[gambite]

I started with an Emp as my first invert, and as much as I love Tarantulas, scorpions are more active and 'cooler'. The way they move, their body design, and the lack of urticating hair are all awesome! Ironically, though, I have a LOT more T's than scorps. The one thing T's do beat scorps in by far is in color and markings. You just cant compare something like an H mac female to any scorp. Even my favorite B jacksoni is bland compared to a lot of Ts.

 

[codykrr]

hmmmm...this must be a older poll i missed....well i think both are equally honestly, both have their down sides which is why i keep both, to balance the unwanted parts of each out...IE...t is in premolt and hiding the scorp isnt, T wont eat scorp will, theres just a good balance in keeping both try it and see. seems to me scorps are funner to watch eat and prey because they can sting pinch and rip the feeder to pices, where as the t just strikes does the happy dance and then starts drinking. one problem with scorps i have is that alot of the really awsome ones are deadly and expensive...one problem i have with ts is that some of the more awsome onse are hrd to get and REALLY expensive, like i said its a good balnce though but i will admit i like the colors of Ts better but il also admit my first tattoo so far was a scorpion(h. spadix ) to be exact

 

[Quixtar]

They all have their pros and cons, but I like Ts the best for their quality of display and their "cuddly" advantage. Scorps are definitely more fun to raise though. Nothing however, beats the thrill of owning a crazy pede.

 

[ph0bia]

I won't vote as I don't keep scorpions, but I have worked with them and have a few friends who keep entirely scorpions.

The argument is that Ts are generally more active and vigorous, they web and ambush. Scorpions are more agressive and usually more reclusive and slightly more difficult to work with (it's easier to avoid bites than stings). Ts also seem more varied and colourful unless you have UV lighting in your room, in which case most scorpions will glow eerily.

Pedes aren't arachnids. This is between the original arachnid(SCORPION) and the n00b arachnid(Tarantula)

n00b arachnids? I'd almost take that offensively. Let's just stop and compare a scorpion that stays pretty much on the floor and burrow to an H.maculata that can easily sprint up the side and bite you numerous times with medically significant venom. Nowhere in that enclosure is 100% safe, whereas if you're off the ground, even a Deathstalker Scorpion can't touch you. Consider also that most invert keepers start with something like an Emperor Scorpion because it's a tank, a heat mat and chucking in prey from a distance. Even a G.rosea may require you to place food closer to her and let's face it, Rosies can be quite a handful!

As for true spiders, I've kept a few in my time and most of them were fairly dull... In fact, the only one I enjoyed keeping was N.nephilengys (Hermit Web Orb Weaver) and that was only due to her unusual webbing. No burrowing, no wandering the enclosure, nothing but a spider hanging in a web all day until feeding.

T's are hands down winners personally, there is SO much variation with Tarantulas. Thousands of colours, hundreds of behaviors... With scorpions, they're available in yellow, brown or black, and all hunt in pretty much the exact same way "Grab, sting, eat". You can own a hundred scorpions and they're all in pretty much the same enclosure and pretty much the same care.

Not so for Ts.

 

[barkobarko]

i voted for Ts, because they're massive and almost all of them are lightning speed when it comes to grabbing the CRICKET :clap: . and cute

on the other side scorpions are also cool specially when tearing food items. but i love Ts

 

[codykrr]

phobia...sorry to break it to ya....but scorps are more than black brown and yellow...some are orange, red purple striped specaled...also alot of scorps are very diffrent, some dry some humid, some forest some desert some from plains....also there attitudes are very diffrent to...so are always pissed and some are calm, sme are nuts and some are insane...also some scorps are arboreal too living mainly in vertical places, i will say yeah there pretty much the same as far as feeding and preying but so are Ts....and also scorps came long before Ts and some even speculate that they may have been the first living thing on land because originally there from the water apparently...so i think credit is due to them any how....bot to mention each one has its own very unique venom is another plus...like i said before though....try keeping both and i promise there isnt ever a dull moment in you life.....they do compliment each other nicely, which is why i wont vote...because to me either doesnt "win" .....its like cheese and wine, or eggs and bacon....or cops and robbers....yu truely need both to makeit complete

 

[Aztek]

The argument is that Ts are generally more active and vigorous, they web and ambush. Scorpions are more agressive and usually more reclusive and slightly more difficult to work with (it's easier to avoid bites than stings).

Scorpions are active. Don't understand why T people say they're not.
Scorpions are easier to work with imo

n00b arachnids? I'd almost take that offensively.

I meant that scorpions came before Tarantulas soo T's are new(n00bs)

Let's just stop and compare a scorpion that stays pretty much on the floor and burrow to an H.maculata that can easily sprint up the side and bite you numerous times with medically significant venom. Nowhere in that enclosure is 100% safe, whereas if you're off the ground, even a Deathstalker Scorpion can't touch you

I don't get it?
There's fast sprinting scorpions as well.

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Consider also that most invert keepers start with something like an Emperor Scorpion because it's a tank, a heat mat and chucking in prey from a distance. Even a G.rosea may require you to place food closer to her and let's face it, Rosies can be quite a handful!

:? You can hand feed emps if you really want to.

T's are hands down winners personally, there is SO much variation with Tarantulas. Thousands of colours, hundreds of behaviors... With scorpions, they're available in yellow, brown or black, and all hunt in pretty much the exact same way "Grab, sting, eat". You can own a hundred scorpions and they're all in pretty much the same enclosure and pretty much the same care.

Not so for Ts.

Scorpions have various colors too. It just isn't their strong point.
What they do have is size and shapes.....
...The fat tail of an A.Australis.... the Slenderness of a male Centruroides... the flatness of a hadogenes... the bulkiness of a heterometrus... etc etc the tiny-ness of a Orthochirus .... the nuetral body shape of a Hadrurus... etc etc.

All T's are just two balls connected with 8 legs sticking out.

Lol @ scorpions just "Grab sting eat"
All Ts do is scoop something under them. You don't even get to enjoy seeing the prey being eaten.

And scorpions do sting in different ways you know.. some don't even sting. They just crush their prey. A centruroides slides its stinger all over the body till it finds a chink in the armor and then digs the stinger in.
a Parabuthus just stabs the hell out of the prey armored or not.

 

[natebugman]

I'm going to add my own silly point to this silly thread.

Tarantulas have the advantage over scorpions sexually:

- The male tarantula actually gets to insert his parts into the female instead of leading the female over a sperm packet on the ground.
- Male tarantulas have hooks to grasp the females fangs during sex so he's less likely to be killed and eaten during the process.
- Tarantulas can produce up to several thousand babies at one time as compared to what? A few dozen offspring produced by scorpions?

Advantage: Tarantula.