Hey all,

Been a long time since I've been on this forum, but am in desperate need of some help!

Whilst the hubby was doing his feeding rounds (he's not done it for a LONG time!! naughty boy!) he opened up our "male" hetrometrus spinifer's cage and lifted a piece of the bark and thought..

"They aren't crickets!" and holy moly the tank was FULL of babies just wondering around! So what we have done, is since we have both heard that the females tend to eat the babies once off her back, we have removed all 36 of the lil babies and put them into their own tank.

Their tub has got the same soil as the female, and 2 piece of cork bark for hides. Nothing else.

So I guess I'm asking for some help on how is best to rear these babies, i.e. do they need to be seperated into individual tubs straight away, what to feed, how often to mist etc etc

Thanks

Here's a few pics...

mum.


babies

Congrats what a nice surprise to find, that's a big brood too! Lovely pics and Het.

Found an interesting thread on raising Pandinus & Heterometrus babies that may be of use to you.
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=69385

how many do they normally have?

and thanks for the thread, very useful indeed.. altho no tips on feeding the young, only mum after the babies have been taken away from her.

thanks again x

You can feed the babies pinheads or cockroach nymphs. If you don't have those, use pre-killed prey by chopping up a large cricket. He definitely didn't check on them for a while, those are babies are 2 instar I believe.

pin head crix? arent they a bit err small? these things are rather large.. at least 2-3cm in length.
and yeah he hadnt checked on them in a couple of weeks.. hes not been very well bless him and i dont dare go near them lol! ive got a feeling they are 2nd instar as they werent on the mums back at all.. just running round, but she was guarding them pretty well.. got really aggressive and started trying to shoo them into a corner as tony opened the lid!

Wow that's awesome wish that would happen to me if they are big enough (they do look big) they should be able to handle prey around the same size as they are could still he'd crush them if your worried though

i think we'll ive them crushed food for a bit.. will they darken up as they seem very "pale"

Aww. Those babies are too cute. It's a good thing these scorpions are so hardy. Those babies made it to 2nd instar without anyone feeding them? XD

Gratz to a wonderful find there!

For these scorplings, baby-mid size b.lateralis roach can be another good alternative.
These roach are soft, nutritious, does not burrow and at times, their agility helps to entice the killer instinct in scorps.
Although they can be fast, it shouldn't be a prob if the enclosure is not too big.

Prob thats the reason H.laoticus and myself like them so much.. haha

Good Luck with the babies. Hope to see more updates on them as they grow

The overall size and the shape of the chela. It looks almost exactly like the female H. longimanus I had.

Edit: I, too, mistook mine for a "male" H. spinifer at first; she was so huge that her "girly little pectines" looked too massive to not be male.

so nearly 2 weeks since we discovered 36 lil baby h.spinifer in mums tank.. 2 weeks they have been together, and we still have all 36!!
all doing well catching and eating their own prey without it needing to be cut up for them.. so proud of our lil babies x