Show Us Your Emps!

[kotex]

this are my spinifer and emps

 

[PhilK]

Keep posting piccies people! Any of the big species please

I read that emperors have the upper range of 8 inches in length? (That's 20cm to us metric sytem users)

 

[~Abyss~]

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.

haha I just went trough my photobucket...LOL...yeah your right at one time I had five scorps in one tank two Het. sp. and three P.imps including a baby. I guess i put the wrong picture. Hmmm.... if i remember correctly it's the same scorps as the next picture. Well it doesn't matter i ID'd them both as H. spinifers since they looked exactly the same except one was bigger. But you could be right too. I gave away my last one but I still have one I'll take a better pic for you.

 

[Phil Hall]

 

[Vfox]

A couple shots of my emps (Pandinus imperator) and ocher keeled flatrock (Hadogenes paucidens).

He crawled over my shoulder and ended up here, lol.

 

[Xaranx]

Here's my heterometrus petersii, fat ones are 2i, fresh molts and slim ones are 3i. Gonna put them in a 10 gallon with lots of substrate at next molt, they were so small when I got them. Not quite emps but they are similar and I felt left out

 

[PhilK]

Stunning... Keep them coming please!
Any of the big species. Emps, flat rocks, Asian forests etc etc (I don't know their species names yet)

 

[RoachGirlRen]

Ok, you asked for it; I have exclusively big black scorpions. Prepare to be bombarded with pictures. Please note, if these scorps look underweight in the pics, it is because they are early pics from when they were first rescued or purchased; actually, many of these pics are of the fattening up process.

Khaeryne (Emp)

Azrael (Emp, possibly red claw?)

Gremlin (Asian Forest Scorp)

Rancor (Emp, possibly red claw?)

Animus (Asian forest scorp)

Nero (Asian forest scorp)

Aura (Asian forest scorp)

Hsigabhari (Emp) - brand new; I had to feed him before taking him out of the container he came home in he was so hungry!

Kymie (Emp)

Mogwi (Asian Forest Scorp)

My basic set-up per scorp.

 

[PhilK]

Insnaely jealous... That is amazing

Anybody got Heterometrus swammerdami or Heterometrus spinifer? What are the common names of these?

 

[Xaranx]

Asian jungle scorpion is the common name for heterometrus sp.

 

[PhilK]

So they're all called that? There's no different names for the different species?

Was under the impression spinifer was the Asian forest scorp and swammerdami was Indian something.. no?

 

[TheDill]

here are a couple pictures of my baby emperors

 

[Aztek]

So they're all called that? There's no different names for the different species?

Was under the impression spinifer was the Asian forest scorp and swammerdami was Indian something.. no?

swammerdami spinifer longimanus etc

 

[ZooRex]

Anybody got Heterometrus swammerdami or Heterometrus spinifer?

What I would give for a swammerdami...They are just so cool but they are extreamly rare in the states because of indian export laws. ~ Rex

 

[Thaedion]

Keep posting piccies people! Any of the big species please

I read that emperors have the upper range of 8 inches in length? (That's 20cm to us metric sytem users)

Here is a link to a picture of the 2 forms of emperors, forest & Savannah, the picture has been floating around but belongs to Pandinu.net here is a link to the pic I uploaded to my photobucket account -->HERE<-- The forest form are probably the record holders of 20cm.

If you want to see a large Heterometrus sp check out the video I have on youtube

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the AB user 'TABOR' owns her and most of her young now.

 

[Mr. Mordax]

The dill, you need to get those emps off of the bark chips and onto some coco fiber or peat.

So you like big forest scorpions? (forgive the blur -- hard to take these pictures with only one hand ).

 

[PhilK]

Holy crap. You people are so so lucky. What I wouldn't give for an emperor and a big Asian forest scorp! So shiny... Are the Asian Forests more agressive?

 

[Vfox]

Holy crap. You people are so so lucky. What I wouldn't give for an emperor and a big Asian forest scorp! So shiny... Are the Asian Forests more agressive?

Don't get me wrong, I like my emps and all, but gawd are they boring. The only reason I've seen them in the last two weeks is because I lifted the hide today to see if they were still alive! Lol! Seriously, great looking animals, and I am glad to have a pair, but my flat rock and C. vitts are so much more fun. (Although my flat rocks been hiding for 3-4 days now, haha).

 

[TheDill]

i changed the substrate to peat moss..they just love it...so much more moist for them..TY for the advice

 

[P. Novak]

Holy crap. You people are so so lucky. What I wouldn't give for an emperor and a big Asian forest scorp! So shiny... Are the Asian Forests more agressive?

Yeah Heterometrus sp. are typically more skittish, but still not to the point where I'd label them as defensive. It also depends on individuals.