Scorp'ling "moviestar"..:)

[Kenny]

Hi all...

It's late and I have used my IR video camera and got some very cool shot of my emperor baby's attack against a cricket.
I have this pot against the wall of the cage and beneath it the scorp'ling has made it's own "room" and since it's against the wall one has a direct look into the 'room".

I just really release the cricket thruu the hole in the pot so it falls down into the space between the pot and cage wall and then it has just "one-way down".

Down there it's dark and out of the shadows comes one little scorpl'ing with mega attack towards the cricket and I had "front-row".
This was just awesome to see.

I missed about the one fraction of a second the attack, because I had the camera turned off for the moment :? but the next part of the attackis there and I also shot when the scorpling started eating..

Kenny

 

[skinheaddave]

So when are you making this footage publicaly available?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Kenny]

Hi....

Hi..

Well,, I don't have digital,,although it's a Sony with all kind "candy" on it including this very cool thing called nightvision.

So I don't know really how to get the none-digital over to the computer..

I would be glad to share it.

Kenny.

 

[skinheaddave]

You see, I have a digital capturing ability, but not the camcorder. Do you have anyone localy with a video capture card?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Kenny]

DOH,,,

Hi..

I should have known..lol.

I'll see if I can get a video-capturing card ( or anyone that has one ) and I'll work on it.

I also have a lot of spider'lings in-the-dark-life on tape.

The really go from Dr.Jekyll to Mr.Hyde sometimes

Especially my Green Bottle, really goes mega active during night.

have a good one
Kenny

 

[skinheaddave]

That is as it should be.

I find that most of my spiders will do at least something during the day. Most will capture prey, for example. Most of my scorpions will not -- but once night hits you can hear them doing their thing. Unless you have a red light on them, in which case you can occasionaly catch them with your eyes as well.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Kenny]

Oh yes..

Hi.

Yes mine also take prey during day when tempted with it.

I gave my A.Avic crickets 3 days in a row during day without problem.

The scorp'ling is more, as you say, abscent during day to just show from it's "room" with 2 claws sticking out during night, being ready.


Kenny

 

[skinheaddave]

Found two more exceptions to my "won't eat in the light" rule with scorpions. I had forgoten to mention that my C.exilicauda will capture prey in lighted conditions -- especialy when they are hungry (when I first got mine and introduced some crickets, it was a 21-scorpion feeding frenzy).

I just got three of my A.bicolor and both of my P.transvaalicus to eat in lighted conditions. Hoorah.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Kenny]

Dungeon,,,

Hi..

My emp baby has built an incredible dungeon beneath this halfburied pot that I have.

I used coconut bark that I mixed with jungle mix and it seems that since coconut bark to some extent contains "square-ish" pieces that seem to work like "coloumns", support-beams,,, in between the softer junglemix that the emp dug out.
Creates a real "cozy" dungeon-system.
When I mist, I only aim at the hole at the bottom of the pot and the water pours down.

I also provide misting on the substrate.
The coconut maintain the moist pretty good.



Kenny