A bit of a conundrum

I stopped at the local pet store today, and saw an adult Babycurus sp. for only $30.

The thing is huge, but it also has bulbous pinchers. So I don't know if it's a female B. jacksoni or a male B. gigas. The store's invoice when they got it only gave a common name.

Obviously, if it's the former, I'd love to get it. There's just two problems -- I'm not absolutely sure that's what it is, and Lori and I are pretty much broke until January 5th.

EPIC SIGH.

Speaking of common names, does "golden thick-tail" mean Androctonus amoreuxi? 'Cause the owner didn't want to carry M. martensii after I described the sting reports to him (yeah, I know Babycurus spp. are worse and he's carrying those).

Oh, and it sounds like they'll be getting in Hadrurus spadix soon. Too bad I'm moving towards communal-only species.

Give me your paypal I'll loan you a few bucks.

awwww, that sucks dude.yeah, I think "golden fat tail" is amoureuxi, seeing as the austrailis' last few metasomal segments are dark.



and I hope you get that spadix, those are stunning scorpions.

Maybe you can ask the shop person to hold it for you until then? Wish I could help but I'm pretty much broke as well.

What color is the scorp?

Eddy, Lori glared at me and said "no!"

Jordan, while spadix are sweet, I'm staying away from solitary species. At least, if someone gets it knows nothing and assumes "scorpion = desert" then they won't kill this one.

Jared, I might just ask him that. He's a pretty cool guy to work with. The scorp was sort of a darker burnt-orange color.


Comparing my memory of this afternoon to my preserved specimens, she seemed to be a little larger than my female but with chela as proportionately large as my male.

it sound like gigas to me. PM your paypal if you change your mind this might just be oppertunity passing you by.

How opportunistic is it to buy a male of a species I never see?

Mr. Mordax wrote:

Jordan, while spadix are sweet, I'm staying away from solitary species. At least, if someone gets it knows nothing and assumes "scorpion = desert" then they won't kill this one.

he is calum i am jordan!!

Well B.gigas is around 9cm or more..

OI!


calum... well me, jordan... _scorpio_

Mr. Mordax wrote:

How opportunistic is it to buy a male of a species I never see?

You only need the female to breed. And I'm sure you can get loans from people who have them and I happen to know a few.

Based on what Kejser said about size, I'm wondering if it's not a huge B. jacksoni, 'cause I don't think it's as big as B. gigas. I need to go back and get a closer look (or show you guys a picture).

To the two UK kids -- I scrolled up enough to see a black-and-white avatar and thought it was the bottom of a scorpion's pinchers. That's what you get for changing your avatars so much!

defiantly take a pic with size comparison . B gigas. are exactly like jacks just a whole lot bigger. If you kept b. jacks for a while you can easily ID the gigas.

My last B. jacksoni died . . . um, quite a while ago. Spring? I forget. I've got the preserved male / female pair that made it to adulthood. Do you think it would be overstepping my bounds as a customer if I took those into the shop and photographed for a size comparison?

http://venomlist.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23293
Look at the colors


and look at the size

http://venomlist.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22510&hl=gigas


I have a really huge B.jacks but she aint a B.gigas

I went back and took a picture . . .



On the left is their scorp, on the right is my (deceased) male B. jacksoni.

I texted a small version of this pic to Eddy and Jared -- Eddy said B. gigas, Jared said B. jacksoni.

The size difference looks about like the pic Kejser linked.

Either way, I know now that it's definitely male, so I'm decidedly less interested than I was originally.

I think that is a Gigas.. look at the size of that thing.

iam going to say B.jacksonii

Same picture, edited.



So would you just say it's a very large male B. jacksoni, Kejser?

My male's mesosoma could have shrunk a little during the preservation process, but this one's pedipalps and metasoma seem much more robust.

Like I said I've seen "small" gigas only a bit bigger than jacksonii at shows.

Either way, it's a male for certain, so I'm distinctly less interested. If I'm going to get an adult male of a species, I'd like to know how old it is so I have a chance to find a mate before he kicks the bucket.

Like my immature C. margaritatus -- if it turns out to be a male, I'll know as soon as it matures and have the best shot at finding a female (or vice-versa).

Mr. Mordax wrote:

My last B. jacksoni died . . . um, quite a while ago. Spring? I forget. I've got the preserved male / female pair that made it to adulthood. Do you think it would be overstepping my bounds as a customer if I took those into the shop and photographed for a size comparison?

If your talking about the pet store in Corvallis, go ahead & overstep your customer bounds. The guys an unethical jerk. He will either let you do it, which Im sure he will, or not. Kim

Um . . . this was quite a while ago (December '08). I did bring in my specimen for a comparison and decided it was just a very large male B. jacksoni. The folks at this particular store are fairly nice but more or less uninformed when it comes to scorpions.