Show Us Your Emps!

[PhilK]

I know this is probably done to death, but being in Australia I don't get to look at many of your awesome scorps. Emperors are one of my favourites (I like the big ones. Cliche, I know).

Could you all please post pictures of your Emperors for me to drool over:drool:?

Also, if you have any other big/long species (like flat rocks etc) I'd love to see them too

Thanks!

 

[~Abyss~]

Mom, dad, and baby

P.imp with H.spinifer

My original set-up...Its been upgraded...ALOT

a good inside view

Heres a MALE flat rock i traded off. The tail gets a little cut off but trust me I'm 100 percent sure it's a male. Just in case theirs any arguments I'll try to get the guy I traded it to to take some pics.

 

[Aztek]

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Blancing

 

[Ted]

 

[P. Novak]

Dang Ted, fighting on your hand?

Here's some old old old pictures of scorpions that aren't with me anymore.

P.imperator's

Their Enclosures throughout the time I had them..

H.troglodytes

 

[Lucara]

My lonely little male Emp. I'm going to find him a girlfriend here soon.
(First time I held him!!!)

 

[PhilK]

Amazing animals everyone! Truly drool-worthy.... I'm soooo jealous.

P.Novak, those are great enclosures!

 

[craig84]

I miss my scorps Here is some shots of them

 

[Galapoheros]

Two giant males emps I found in a pet store

Here's a CB female that I saw mate with one of the monsters, ..don't know if that worked or not. She'll be three around next May.

Here are two CBs that are almost 1.5 yrs old, same instars but the one on the right allot bigger.

Male Flat

Two females fat flats

I still don't know what Heterometrus sp these big shiny black things are. Some say spinifer, others say longimanus.

 

[P. Novak]

P.Novak, those are great enclosures!

Thanks! That's when I was actually into planted enclosures, no I just do the simple naturalistic way, a rock or a piece of bark used for hiding. No more plants.

Wow Craig, that sure is a big group of P.imperator, nice! :clap:

 

[Ted]

yes..lol
they fought on my hand..ended up being a three scorpion fiasco.
great pics you guys!!!1:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[PhilK]

All those pics are rip-snorters guys, well done!
Love the tails on the male flat rocks... So long and thin.

Do emperors use their stings much, on prey?

 

[craig84]

Thanks Paul. Nice pics everyone. EMps are the best scorps

 

[P. Novak]

All those pics are rip-snorters guys, well done!
Love the tails on the male flat rocks... So long and thin.

Do emperors use their stings much, on prey?

Nope, they have those big crushing claws. I've only seen a P.imperator use it once on a giant hissing cockroach.

Wow Todd, those are some huge P.imperator's, can you get a shot next to a ruler?

 

[Galapoheros]

Cool! I'm able to see more of the pics now, computer's outa date. Awesome pics. Hey abyss, what sp is that small one in there? It's a Heterometrus sp. I'm gonna guess H. laoticus but there are others it could be. Do you know?

 

[PhilK]

I'm so insanely jealous of these scorpions.. Emperors are the biggest scorpions in the world, aren't they?

 

[~Abyss~]

Cool! I'm able to see more of the pics now, computer's outa date. Awesome pics. Hey abyss, what sp is that small one in there? It's a Heterometrus sp. I'm gonna guess H. laoticus but there are others it could be. Do you know?

i cant see my own pics on these computers if its the first one then its a P.imp just not one molt away from adulthood. If it's the secong one it is a Het. sp. I id'd as H.spinifer. Altough you might be right there.

 

[P. Novak]

I'm so insanely jealous of these scorpions.. Emperors are the biggest scorpions in the world, aren't they?

In my mind they are the heaviest and Heterometrus swammerdami being the longest, but who knows for sure.

 

[Galapoheros]

Sorry dudes, I can't keep up with the posts with this piece. Sorry I can't see everybody's pics. The emps are pretty big Paul. I bought an adult mouse to feed a rat snake. But just for the hell of it, I put it in with one of the emps to see what the emp would do. That sucker was 110% going to kill and eat that mouse. I didn't want to be cruel so I took the mouse away immediately and gave it to the rat snake. The snake squeezed the hell out of it til it's eyeballs and brains popped out of it's head, I felt allot better ...anywhooooooo, I think they're about 6 inches but they sure look bigger don't they... Yeah Abyss, I know what you mean. I can't see my pics either! A piece of junk I have! But no, that little one in the first pic with the two "adults", I'm pretty sure you have a Heterometrus there. Petco was selling H. laoticus here with a bunch of emps. They didn't know. That sure looks like a Heterometrus to me. The chela are too big for it's body to be an emp and should prob have more granulation on the chela even as a young emp. Man I'm sure no scorp expert but I still have 4 of them that look like that little one in the first pic. It'd be cool to post a better pic of it. Congrats if it's a Hetero, don't know when we'll see those in the stores again.

Ahh, now I see your second pic, it's just a close up of the scene in the first pic.

6 inches with the tail, I know they look bigger. The perfect set up you had there. Looks like palm seedlings, some of the plants?

 

[P. Novak]

Sorry dudes, I can't keep up with the posts with this piece. Sorry I can't see everybody's pics. The emps are pretty big Paul. I bought an adult mouse to feed a rat snake. But just for the hell of it, I put it in with one of the emps to see what the emp would do. That sucker was 110% going to kill and eat that mouse. I didn't want to be cruel so I took the mouse away immediately and gave it to the rat snake. The snake squeezed the hell out of it til it's eyeballs and brains popped out of it's head, I felt allot better ...anywhooooooo, I think they're about 6 inches but they sure look bigger don't they... Yeah Abyss, I know what you mean. I can't see my pics either! A piece of junk I have! But no, that little one in the first pic with the two "adults", I'm pretty sure you have a Heterometrus there. Petco was selling H. laoticus here with a bunch of emps. They didn't know. That sure looks like a Heterometrus to me. The chela are too big for it's body to be an emp and should prob have more granulation on the chela even as a young emp. Man I'm sure no scorp expert but I still have 4 of them that look like that little one in the first pic. It'd be cool to post a better pic of it. Congrats if it's a Hetero, don't know when we'll see those in the stores again.

Ahh, now I see your second pic, it's just a close up of the scene in the first pic.

6" with or without their tails? Cause 6" without it is a large scorpion, must be 8-8.5" with it.

Haha, yeah the mouse was much better off that way..