asian forest scorpion.[question]

so its a pure female huh?

yep.


if it doesn't produce any offspring, you could try and breed her again.

*Connie* wrote:

she MIGHT not have been gravid at all. could have just been well fed from the shop.

wait a little while and if nothing happens you can always try to mate her

but broods are big. I have 32 (the bad moult one is still alive) scorplings

sad one man..but i keep this for half a year already..may be im the one who fed it.

but she only consume a little if not mistaken..

should i take a photo of her,and post up as to compare with the previous photo to see if she is expanding or not?

If you've had her for a year and a half, she would have popped by now. That's the upper limit on their gestation.

she still ain't popping..
swt

^I concur. I have a female (different spp.) that I think may have reabsorbed her embryos -- if I can't get her to regenerate them, I'm gonna try to pick up a male.

oh..later i might post some photo of her to check whether her size is increasing or decreasing...

yo,so her size is increasing or decreasing?
u can check her previous photo in the first page..

increased a bit i think

Just wait it out, dude.

If you've had her by herself for 18 months, she'll either pop soon or not at all.

im wondering whether those withish bulbs formed are embryos or not?
any idea guys?

she looks like she is gravid, and I think she is gonna pop, real soon.

so is that those embryo?

could be, but the best way to "see" inside is to shine a torch through the membrane at the side (they grey skin-like part) in the dark, and see it there are any white blobs. this only really works when the scorp is really close to popping though.

I don't see the blobs very clearly, but like I've said before, the membrane on these species is too think to see embryos very easily.

If you've had her for 18 months, and she is gravid, you're reaching the extremes of their gestation limits.

Here's a good picture of a gravid Centruroides vittatus -- the embryos are much more visible than they were in my gravid Heterometrus longimanus.

ok so i think you guys miss read him he has only had this scorpion for 6 months, Not a year and a half. I think your going to have scorplings in the next 2 to 3 weeks. Keep up humidity and up the temperature a couple of degrees and that should speed up the proses\

junshern222 wrote:

but i keep this for half a year already

OH! Ok, then, yes, probably going to pop soon. Sorry, I read it backwards as "year and half," not "half a year."

<-- Mike being dyslexic.

Sorry if I confused you, junshern.

haha,harm not made..
so if embryo really exist,what should be seen is i use a torchlight on her?

it depends how close to popping she is, but you could give it a try. plus as mike said this species has a thick membrane.

*Connie* wrote:

if you think she might birth then bump the humidity and she will birth...is this not the same scorpion that you said is now thinning down? or is that someone else?!?

yea,this is the one thinning down...but how humid i must make it?
just pretent that there was a heavy rain everyday?