Gravid Vaejovis spinigerus?

Here's a shot of the troublemaker from my community attempt -- I see weird shapes through her membrane and I can clearly see the nerve cord pressed against her tergites. And she's eating in this photo, which is something premolt scorps don't do.

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Thoughts?

yes, gravid. Dont be shocked as im sure you know that if this is the last feed for a few months!

xxxx

yup looks prego

Gravid... Congrats..

wow you're going to be a proud daddy of spinigerus, once you have them at 3rd instar, let me know if you wanna sell any

Sha-WEET!

Most of the scorps I have, I'd like to wait until I get a second brood before I start distributing. I have one more male and female but they're both immature.

Although, I keep hearing these guys have HUGE broods, so I may be willing to get rid of a few.

well i done blame you for wanting to hold on to them to get a lager amount, but when that time comes of you wanting to, i will be willing to get a few

Congrats if she's gravid. I'm still unsure about the whole telling if they are gravid thing. But she does look it to me. Average brood size is 60 so I'm sure you will wanted to get rid of a few of them.

-Dustin

Mike, it's okay I only want about 30 or so...

lol@eddy

We'll just wait and see how many she's hiding from us.

good idea

I checked on her again today . . . I can clearly see the embryos and I think I may have seen eyes. But they're getting more discernible.

Oh, and I accidentally handled her for a little bit. Something startled her and she ran onto my hand. But I guided her back down onto the bark.

ahh they are fun little scorps... i have 250+ babies right now, 2I and 3I the majority (133 of them) being 3I brood sizes are rather large... and i have another 4 females with babies on their backs...be prepared for lots and lots of cages

btw. if u up the humidity a bit and raise temps by 5-10 degrees the babies seem to develop allot faster. and i mean ALLOT


p.s. get usto handling them, separating babies is easiest using fingers

I'd heard about the brood sizes. Luckily we have lots of little delicups leftover from when Lori's rose-hair had a sac last summer.

I just prefer to handle scorps that are big enough that I can keep easy track of them. Finger separating of babies bugs me when they don't want to get off your fingers. (Case in point: 2I H. paucidens yesterday.)

lol, ive been on here for a little while i just haven't had a chance to stop and post!

w00t i finaly had time to list my scorps FS lol

so, is that ur only Vaejovis Spinigerus?

Any idea how to sex these? I just had one mature on me so now I have a mature pair.
-Eddy

its really easy to sex them. think u could post a pic or two of each? from the side or inside a container from underneath and one from directly above the scorp.

I rather get derections since I dont have a camera. Pectine count or pectine shape?
-Eddy

i was looking for a link i saved on my computer with the exact pectin count... can't find it, basiclly females have short pectics males have long pectins, the males also have longer tail segments and a more streamlined body females tend to be quite a bit chunkier then the males, atleast in all the 100's of vaejovis i've gone through thats how its been... with males if u are looking at them from above u can SEE the pectins with females u can not. fairly simple =P

i'll keep digging around i hope i can find that link for u!

okay then i think the first one I have is male this one I need to look at closer.
-Eddy

i hope u got a pair! there need to be more of these guys CB way too many of them are collected from the wild...

wow i just realized the time...good night to all!

I was looking at my spingerus/confusus today and I think she might be gravid. We'll see she was WC

I've got two other V. spinigerus, Shadow. (When I realized you'd been here since February, I changed my post back ).

Eddy, these are the standard /\ male, / \ female, with the males' pectinal teeth almost touching if not overlapping. That one expert whose name escapes me for some reason (Someone McWest?) posted a really good picture of it somewhere.

kari? Yeah okay I'll look into it.