Scorpion Picture Thread

[Smokehound714]

gravid female P. silvestrii

 

[G. Carnell]

Haven't posted pics in a while so updating my usual species!


Heterometrus bengalensis male and female

Heterometrus phipsoni male:

My baby Euscorpiops karschi are moulting to I3 now, pictures of each instar-

 

[Venom]

Hottentotta caboverdensis, 5i.

 

[gromgrom]

Pictures of my first Parabuthus schlechteri brood. Had 64-66 with 0 casualties as of yet!

 

[Scorpster1]

Uroctonites montereus

 

[kellysaxez]

someone help id please



in a separate container

 

[CABIV]

Don't take hiding advice from Felines-

I recently purchased this Hetermetrus (of some kind). Clearly, it learned how to hide from the cats in the pet shop i purchased it from.

I found it like this the other morning, it was still sitting like this hours later. later on when I was trying to refill the water dish, it hauled itself up by its metasoma and turned around. he has been hiding in this not-so-hidden hole for the last few days. I've watched it leave the hole, only to go back to it. Whatever floats his boat!

Its scorpion brain must be thinking "I can't see him, he can't see me!"



It does give a good view of his bottom side-



He came out when I disturbed the cage-



Then back down the hole he went as soon as I left the room for a while-



"Hey guys, Whats up?"





I don't know, maybe this is normal scorpion behavior and i'm a clueless noob, or something is wrong. I would think that the scorpion would prefer a darker hide? I set up a "stone" hide that goes fairly deep, but it only seemed to use this for the first few days.

This hole was originally so that I could pour water down into the lower hydroball layer if necessary. Perhaps this is comfortable in terms of humidity? but then why not just tunnel under the rock into the humid layers? Perhaps the scorpions prefer a "starter burrow"?

 

[G. Carnell]

nice pics guys!


That last Heterometrus is most likely H. petersii by the way!

 

[CABIV]

Just out of curiosity, how can you tell?

 

[G. Carnell]

Hey,

Ive kept a lot of Heterometrus, your one is part of a group of similar species_ h.laoticus, h.petersii and to a lesser extent h.spinifer (not malaysian ones)

Within this group an easy way to differentiate is that h.laoticus has a smooth body compared to h.petersii which is granulated! For a more scientific description and key see kovarik: revision of the genus heterometrus (open access)

 

[CABIV]

I found this literally minutes after asking last night!

http://www.factorioforums.com/scorpio/pdf/2004-Heterometrus.pdf

Still a little tricky, but I assume as I get deeper into this hobby I'll start picking up on the finer points.

 

[G. Carnell]

Got some new Indian Heterometrus - the lines between species are so blurred it will be very tricky to identify!
From Odisha!

 

[JLPicard]

My H. Troglodytes during a clean-up of its enclosure.

 

[Smokehound714]

Smeringurus vachoni immanis female!

I love this species!

 

[Smokehound714]

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in a separate container

Hadrurus arizonensis

 

[8 Legged Techie]

Here are some of my Scorps!

Hadogenes troglodytes

Opistophthalmus sp.

Androctonus australis

Androctonus amoreuxi

Androctonus bicolor

Hottentotta judaicus

Leiurus quinquestriatus

 

[G. Carnell]

Nice pics!

I just got a new addition, Iurus species from Turkey

Large male with very large notch in claws!

 

[styrafoamcow]

my Heterometrus enclosure

 

[Biollantefan54]

V. carolinianus

 

[Mattias]

H. spinifer


P. cavimanus

P. cavimanus ( freshly molted )


B. jacksoni


O. innesi