Scorpion Picture Thread

[pannaking22]

Hottentotta trilineatus (?) action shot


Shot through the enclosure, but you can actually see a drop of venom on the tip of the stinger

 

[tabor]

So I bred another one of my C. bicolor females tonight, it started off rough due to a small mishap, but turned out just fine. At this point now I believe I have two gravid females.

And so it begins, I was transfering the lucky couple to the breeding container I had setup for them, but before I could get them transfered (instantly) the male started doing his shimmy shimmy on the females head:

Rather than interupt them I just figured I'd wait and see what happened, after some finagling the male got the female into the proper position:

The aftermath, the spermataphore is in the upper right!:

I really do need a better camera than my iphone.

Hopefully this was a successful pairing, but I plan on pairing each female one additional time with what appears to be the stud male and seeing what happens. They will then be placed into what I consider ideal Centruroides gestation conidtions and with any luck at all I should have two broods by early summer

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This gives me hope that one day they won't be as rare as or rarer than a Grosphus ankarana. Congrats on the mating. There are some others on here that are looking for a male so their females don't die without breeding.

Thanks. If you were referring to people looking for a C. Bicolor male, tell them to PM me.

 

[Kat Fenix]

so seeing papilio's photos made me look up focus stacking because his photos are gooorrrgeeeouuuus. I downloaded a program and tried it myself.

pictured here is the body of my P. imperator that has been in my mini fridge for about 4-5 years now. I think he's pretty much freeze dried at this point. I really enjoyed him.
But I wanted to try it with something that wasn't going to move around and I'm rather pleased with my first try!
Really want another scorp. They are really cool animals.

 

[Alltheworld601]

Buncha fat scorpions.


_IGP1854 by alltheworldinonegirl, on Flickr


_IGP1846 by alltheworldinonegirl, on Flickr


_IGP1839 by alltheworldinonegirl, on Flickr

 

[elliotulysses]

I'm jealous of your guys' photo skills

Here are my new guys
Indica

Sativa


And my beloved older guys
Ian

Isaac

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Centruroides gracilis, hands down my favorite scorpion to keep. Hoping this girl gives me lots of good babies.

 

[KDiiX]

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Here is Cleo short for Cleopatra and her babies .. I kept one baby and it yet has a name lol ...I'm wating to see the sex of of it name it ...

first picture is actually a perfect example for why not to pick up a scorpion. As you can see perfect it looks like the scorpions stands on the tip of the toes. A scorpion "feeling" comfortable on the surface he is walking walks "flat" without much space between scorpion and surface.

 

[exocet77]

Hottentotta Trilineatus

 

[Smokehound714]

This guy got settled in very quickly. The substrate mixture is holding up perfectly.


Unlike A. phaiodactlyus, A. pococki isn't as prone to mycosis, and actually can easily dehydrate. Substrate: 50% coarse sand, 30% silt, 20% clay. As long as they have good ventilation, mycosis isnt an issue, but Do allow the substrate to dry out. It's fast-draining, so simply misting will help maintain the burrow's integrity.

Males build much shallower burrows than females, and do not require as much substrate. Females are happiest with at least 4". Burrowing scorpions dig spiral-burrows. a 32oz polypro container makes a good enclosure, they're enabled to make a deeper corkscrewing burrow, and it seems to make them calmer.

Same specimen, before burrow was completed.

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Centruroides gracilis, hands down my favorite scorpion to keep. Hoping this girl gives me lots of good babies.

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Here's a better picture of mom w/ babies:

 

[G. Carnell]

Subadult Heterometrus bengalensis!

theyre really showing that rich brown colour, and some sexual dimorphism
subadult male on the left, subadult female on the right!

 

[2nscorpx]

Great! Such a rare species! It's good to see a healthy group of them.

 

[Hypnotic]

My androctonus mauretanicus.
Offcourse you can get from the picture that she past away the night before this picture was taken, so this was my last picture with her.
I'm not sure what killed her, just that her behaviour changed completely the last week before I finally discoverd her dead.

 

[ShredderEmp]

Our condolences.

 

[Koh_]

sorry to hear that but was it female? looks more like mature male to me.

 

[tsmith102033]

What's the best substrate to use for emperors I use coconut and he seems to be doing good in it.

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[Nikos]

Mesobuthus gibbosus

 

[G. Carnell]

NIKO BACK IN THE GAME, YEAH!


beautiful pic mate! i love the little speckles the babies have!

 

[journeys and scorpions]

Hi Nikos

You here

I love M. gibbosus!