Mike's first brood of 2009!

One of the females caught May 1 with my professor and his kids.

Six other females standing by.

Expect a full breeding report to follow, once the kiddos hit 2I.

Wow, thats alot of mordax

I find it incredible how many mordax' you breed Mike.

Marketing techniques going to be available to those of us with a growing Brood? Put me on the list to adopt

congratulations mike. the world will soon be taken over by mordax hahaha!

Good going mate you will be swimming in little Mordax's soon..

congrats on the brood(s)

Congratulations Mike!!

Thanks guys! I was gone for the weekend, came home and checked on her, and everyone's still doing well.

There's so many that they're spilling off the top and clinging to the sides of her mesosoma.

Brood #2 arrived today . . . pics to follow.

And #3!!

hahaha well done mike

Pics! Clicky for bigness.

Brood #2:


Brood #3 -- this girl sealed herself in a burrow:

they are looking good still...congratz sir!

yeh, looks great

No new pics, but the fourth one collected the same night as the others popped either today or yesterday -- as did my HUGE Vaejovis / Hoffimanus sp. that was collected in Arizona last month.

What are those Vaejovis like, are they similarr to arizonsis?

In terms of raising? Not really, I think they're fairly easy. They don't burrow three feet into the sand.

In terms of size? Much smaller . . . though they do have the same "wander about lots" thing going on for them.

Pics, courtesy of Lori! Clicky for big.

Found this first instar off of mom's back already, but looking alive and well (from brood #2).



Brood #4 -- you can see the hollow mom dug out under her bark in the first pic.



And the Vaejovis sp. (guessing spinigerus).

What are you going to do with all those babies!? I hope you have a good adoption service in mind!

Mrs. Mordax wrote:

What are you going to do with all those babies!? I hope you have a good adoption service in mind!

Hahaha

wow!!! impressive breeding results! those mordax are amazing. the little scorpling on its own made me go "aww" despite myself lol
and well done with the Vaejovis/Hoffimanus thingy! i have one that i've been growing on from sling (managed to kill most of the rest through over-watering )
the last is thriving though!
how big is mature for them just out of curiosity?

I've seen scorps listed as V. spinigerus range anywhere from less than an inch to about three inches -- one on the smaller side I've had for a year and a half without any molts, and it's been fat enough to look gravid for about six months. Part of me thinks they're just random members of the genus that weren't properly identified.