asian forest scorpion.[question]

wow thats huge!!!

My pics were taken a week before she poped. And very agressive..

wow,nice scorp u have there electrophyste.but i learned from u all one fact,the nerve cord is visible when she is gravid.

now i know the differences between a pre-molt and a gravid scorpion already..

well,what can i do now is to wait and offer them food..

^She may refuse food, especially as she's getting close. If that's the case, just take it out after a day or two.

When she does pop, she won't need to eat with the babies on her back, so don't worry about feeding her then, either.

offer her a meal about a week after they are born.
when the babies come of her back you can offer them headless crickets. they must be headless because they will still be soft enough for the crickets to snack on.

if you can feed them small cockroaches this will save you a lot of worry about removing them because they wont touch your scorps so can stay in there forever! or until they become lunch!

guys.the scorp is getting smaller instead of expanding,what does this signifies?

Are you sure about that?


mabye it's just about to pop or something... hmmmm....

could be burning off some of its meals as it is fasting...

she is thinner i think..but bad accident happened yesterday.

i forgotten to close the container[which is used to keep her]..she climbed out and drop onto a pretty hard surface..
she was dropping from approximately 3.5feets...

thats damn hurt for her..dunno those babies inside still alive or not..

She may have lost them and re absorbed them, but im not sure how likely that would be

If she isn't cracked or bleeding anywhere, then she should be fine.

Babies at that stage would be awful squishy and should be able to absorb impact fine.

Mr. Mordax wrote:

If she isn't cracked or bleeding anywhere, then she should be fine.

Babies at that stage would be awful squishy and should be able to absorb impact fine.

once escaped,she is searching for ways to escape every minute now..lol

guys,i still wanna confirm it's sex instead of getting false hope..



so this is?

I'm guessing female, due to the shape of the operculum, the pectinal teeth seem kinda long though. but, still guessing female.

scorpion111 wrote:

I'm guessing female, due to the shape of the operculum, the pectinal teeth seem kinda long though. but, still guessing female.

yea,im noticing the pectinal teeth too..looks like a male from the teeth..when comes to the shape of operculum,its a 'love shape'...

Most definitely female. In most males I see, the pectine teeth come very close to reaching (if not overlapping) the first pair of booklungs.

*Connie* wrote:

if she is infact not expanding nor staying the same then she isnt or wasnt pregnant.
She COULD have been but they all died inside OR she was just fat from a big feed and is now returning to normal size

so by judging the operculum shape,ur guess for my scorp's sex is?

i dont know if the operculum thing counts in Heterometrus sp. but from the lenght of the pectines i whould allso say female..

But still they are a differnt genus and sp.

iam going to check on my own

Same family though, Kejser. Either way, to the best of my knowledge, both genera are close enough that they can be sexed the same way.