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#1 User is offline   AzJohn 

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 08:54 AM

I have not seen these guys here. They are one of my favorites.

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 09:39 AM

Hi John,

I have seen them come by, but not very often, I'll give you that. It's a very nicely colored, funny little scorp! How "large" are they?

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 10:19 AM

The largest I've seen is around 1.5 inches. I have a 6. Being wild caught, there is a good chance a few a gravid. I hope to have a few babies soon. I can't wait to see the little ones.
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Posted 26 March 2009 - 10:55 AM

I really like these guys, great color and such :D
Too bad I haven't seen them for sale here yet.

Nice pics :thmbup:
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Posted 26 March 2009 - 11:31 AM

nice scorps!! ^_^
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Posted 27 March 2009 - 06:36 AM

Neat looking little scorps for sure. You might try to breed them in captivity so you can give others good info on them (hint hint)
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Posted 27 March 2009 - 08:43 AM

I'm planning on tring to breed these guys. I really don't know much about them. I've seen them in there natural habitat and have made some guesses about their life style. I don't know anything about how they interact with each other. I'm hoping that a few of them are gravid. If I can get babies, I'll keep most and try different things to breed them. I want enough scorpions so the loss of an individual during breeding isn't to bad. If any one has experience creating a captive bred population from wild caught adults, I'd really appriciate the insights.


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Posted 27 March 2009 - 03:32 PM

It's been awhile for me, since I have been on. I just thought I would add some insight to help you. I received 4 last year from Arizona. Turns out all were gravid. I put them all in a container about 6 inches tall full of semi moist peat. They immediately dug straight to the bottom, and I think I may have seen them out once or twice. They aren't the best eaters, and are usually scared of anything more than half their size. The babies are incredibly small. Even smaller than the broods I have had from 4 different species of Compsobuthus. They totaled about 10-15, and were very hard to rear. It took forever for them to finally come out of the burrow. So hopefully you can have the luck I had, and they are gravid. And hopefully you can gain more knowledge from these, as they are incredibly beautiful.
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Posted 29 March 2009 - 10:16 AM

View PostLokal, on Mar 27 2009, 04:32 PM, said:

It's been awhile for me, since I have been on. I just thought I would add some insight to help you. I received 4 last year from Arizona. Turns out all were gravid. I put them all in a container about 6 inches tall full of semi moist peat. They immediately dug straight to the bottom, and I think I may have seen them out once or twice. They aren't the best eaters, and are usually scared of anything more than half their size. The babies are incredibly small. Even smaller than the broods I have had from 4 different species of Compsobuthus. They totaled about 10-15, and were very hard to rear. It took forever for them to finally come out of the burrow. So hopefully you can have the luck I had, and they are gravid. And hopefully you can gain more knowledge from these, as they are incredibly beautiful.



Thanks for the insight. I appriciate your personal knowledge about raising early instars. So far mine are eating when well. I don't feed to often, a .5 inch cricket goes a long way with these fellows. I collected a very small individual. It's the same size as my 2i parabuthus, it's eating small crickets. It looks like prekilled pinheads as food for the babies. I'm trying to start a termite colony. Based on my personal observations and on communications with other local invert people they feed a lot on termites. I actually found one living with termites under a rock.It's the biggest one I've seen. They seem to come out when it's wet and eat untill it dries out. Then the dissapear for a few months untill it gets wet again.

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Posted 07 May 2009 - 02:03 PM

She just had this brood last night. It was the first time I got to watch the entire thing from start to finish. That was very cool. these were the only picture that was any good. I didn;t want to take the lid of off the deli cup. I've got two more females that I'm hoping produce babies soon. I'm going to try feeding fruit flies and week old crickets. They are tiny. Mom is about 1.5 inches.

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Posted 08 May 2009 - 01:54 AM

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Posted 08 May 2009 - 12:57 PM

Sweet!!

Congrats on the brood :thmbup:
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 04:58 PM

I kept a gravid female a while ago. She was very sensitive. One minor disturbance and she dropped and ate the brood. I haven't been able to find any since.

Good luck with them. I think it's a worthwhile species to breed if you can.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 09:55 AM

View PostAnubis, on May 9 2009, 05:58 PM, said:

I kept a gravid female a while ago. She was very sensitive. One minor disturbance and she dropped and ate the brood. I haven't been able to find any since.

Good luck with them. I think it's a worthwhile species to breed if you can.




So far mine have been very tolerant. I've got two others that are gravid. One is about to burst. I more concerned finding food for them. If anyone has experience feeding very small scorplings please explain how you went about it.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 08:00 PM

They remind me of Bothriurus sp. I have a gravid one.

About how big are the babies? Or shall I say tiny? :P

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Posted 11 May 2009 - 06:31 AM

The babies are very small. I would guess around .25 inches. Maybe a little more. They are bigger than I thought they would be. I got a large female Hadrogenes paudicens. I thinking of trying to get a picture of one of these guys sitting on top of her.
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Posted 29 May 2009 - 07:07 AM

Finally 2i. Getting here took forever. They where born on May 5

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Posted 29 May 2009 - 09:05 AM

that is awesome! i think i have a gravid female from San Bernardino county, CA and from googling it seemed like a hard species to get 2i from





i have always fed my super tiny bugs (scorps, tarantulas and other mygs, and centipedes) prekilled, possibly oversized prey items. if the prey is much more than 1x the weight of the bug i am trying to feed then i almost always split it open somewhat... i have seen 2i C. vittatus feed off of an adult cricket this way :)








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also, this is a bit of my anal retentive geekiness seeping out... but when you have something very interesting like this you might consider always having the full, proper scientific name in the title. i did some searching for "Superstitionia donensis" both with and without quotes and never saw this thread. if you had the full name in the title i suspect this would have been quite high in the listing and made the first page... normally when i search if there are more than 100 hits i might not sift through everything past 100 as they tend to not have that much pertinence to what i am looking for... but i would have loved to find this thread, for sure!

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Posted 29 May 2009 - 10:06 AM

someones gonna need termites haha
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Posted 29 May 2009 - 10:09 AM

Congrats, that really took them some time to molt. Good luck raising them :thmbup:


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also, this is a bit of my anal retentive geekiness seeping out... but when you have something very interesting like this you might consider always having the full, proper scientific name in the title. i did some searching for "Superstitionia donensis" both with and without quotes and never saw this thread. if you had the full name in the title i suspect this would have been quite high in the listing and made the first page... normally when i search if there are more than 100 hits i might not sift through everything past 100 as they tend to not have that much pertinence to what i am looking for... but i would have loved to find this thread, for sure!


I think that's a good idea. I've changed the title.
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