Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update

Rasputin · Parabuthus Number of posts: 1053 Age: 27 Registration date: 2008-03-13

gramps wrote:

great pics man cheers

reckon it hurts um when they molt ?

regards sam

Sam, I'm akin to say it probably feels quite nice to molt - imagine being stuck in skin that's too small for your body and being able to shed that skin and stretch out.

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PaperTiger · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 3:18 am

When I was watching him and trying to stay awake, I could have sworn I heard him grunt.

binksyboy3 · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 6:17 am

PaperTiger wrote:

When I was watching him and trying to stay awake, I could have sworn I heard him grunt.

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Mark · Pandinus Number of posts: 10 Age: 25 Registration date: 2009-10-17

Stunning scorp, the colours straight after the moult are so fresh and vivid, the scorp just pops. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing! Smile

**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 9:35 am

Weird! I've never seen one molt face-up like that. Most of my cast exuviae that I find are face-down.

Gramps, I'm guessing it feels like removing a really tight pair of jeans. Razz

And I definitely agree with Ras on the age -- the tail's too skinny for an adult female but the chela are too skinny for an adult male.

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Rasputin · Parabuthus Number of posts: 1053 Age: 27 Registration date: 2008-03-13

Mr. Mordax wrote:

Weird! I've never seen one molt face-up like that. Most of my cast exuviae that I find are face-down.

Touche, they usually molt facing the ground. The reason, I can see, for the scorp having molted the way it did is that the vert might not be tall enough. Hey PaperTiger, can you take some pix of the enclosure so I can see the climbing surface in comparison to the terra firma of the enclosure?

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PaperTiger · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 7:51 pm

Yes sir I will. The enclosure had an upright fiber (as pictured) and they keep knocking over like the "housekeeping" LQ's keep rearranging the covers. So this one pictured is a female?

Rasputin · Parabuthus Number of posts: 1053 Age: 27 Registration date: 2008-03-13

No, Mike wasn't sexing it but rather pointing out that it is still too young to tell by those pix. Not that it can't be sexed but that we aren't going to take a stab at it at this juncture based on those pix.

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PaperTiger · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 8:11 pm

Ok thanks, jumped the gun a bit Mad

Rasputin · Parabuthus Number of posts: 1053 Age: 27 Registration date: 2008-03-13

No prob. I bet if you got some good close-ups of the scorp and maybe a clear shot of the pectines, we could sex it.

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PaperTiger · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 8:19 pm

Cool, My GF got a glass baking dish I can use for the flighty pair. Supposedly the breeder sex'd then to be female and a male

**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 8:28 pm

I've heard from a few people that you can't reliably sex this species until mature (or subadult in the case of females, assuming you know for certain the instar).

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PaperTiger · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 8:37 pm

Not for certain on the instar and your had previously advised on this on my chocolate version some time ago; thanks for the reminder though as it is appreciated,

Rasputin · Parabuthus Number of posts: 1053 Age: 27 Registration date: 2008-03-13

Mr. Mordax wrote:

I've heard from a few people that you can't reliably sex this species until mature (or subadult in the case of females, assuming you know for certain the instar).

True. But where does sub-adult start, i4, i5, or i6? I leave for 8mo and apparently missed that memo on sexing a B.jax.

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**Mr. Mordax** · Subject: Re: Babycurus jacksoni molting (pix heavy) update 10/24/2009, 9:52 pm

I call subadult one molt before adult, usually . . . not sure if it's a true technical term.

Anywho, males mature at 5I and females at 6I. You can sex at 5I (mature males or subadult females, if my definition holds) because males will have the bulbous pedipalps and females won't have the thick tail they gain at 6I and will lack the bulbous pedipalps of a male.

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