Sicarius hahni

i raised 1.1 Sicarius hahni (Namibia) from slings. they grow adult in about a year. i haven't noticed any aggressive or mating behaviour, after introducing the male into the females enclosure. everytime i was observing, they just did what they do all the time, hiding buried in sand, pretty boring spiders to keep.
3 weeks later, she started building an egg sac. i'll keep you updated as soon as the spiderlings hatch.













more S. hahni pics

very cool hauser! I love the way this species hunt, and the eggsack is crazy!

oh man that is the best egg-cup i have ever seen in my life!

wicked pictures

0.1 Sicarius hahni








1.0 Sicarius hahni

That is wild. You need to Photoshop a cigarette into her mouth on the pic where she is sprawled out under the egg sac

Wow, that is cool Really nice pictures, and what a beautiful spider

two months later, ~25-30 Sicarius hahni spiderlings hatched!

oh wow congrats on the brood they look awesome!!!

Even though I've attempted to breed widows, I think I'd require a change of pants if I came home and saw that.

I mean, um, congratulations on the successful brood!

meanwhile the 5th eggsac has hatched and #6 and 7 on the way.

congrats on the success mate
those lilones are great looking.

wow! they are really cute for such potentially dangerous creatures lol
but then i know the temperament of at least some of this genus is not so bad.
really great spiders! one day i'll keep them i hope congrats on the successful breeding!

...and another one hatched

that's awesome, you sharing the wealth? I've been fascinated by the sub-genus Sicarius for a while. My favorite is Sicarius terrosus. The problem it that whenever somebody gets one in, they don't plan on parting with it and nobody's breeding them out here to my knowledge. Yes, I'm late seeing this thread but I just don't give a crap.

Rasputin wrote:

that's awesome, you sharing the wealth? I've been fascinated by the sub-genus Sicarius for a while. My favorite is Sicarius terrosus. The problem it that whenever somebody gets one in, they don't plan on parting with it and nobody's breeding them out here to my knowledge. Yes, I'm late seeing this thread but I just don't give a crap.

actually, i do sell Sicarius cf. hahni: http://scorpions.f1.to/?n1=sale. i keep Sicarus terrosus as well, but i'm not going to breed them, nobody's interested in S.terrosus, here in europe.

Wow amazing pics they don't look real! Proper mental looking, never seen anything like that before!

wicked pics.

Before anyone comments on this being an old thread, I have to say I have not seen this and am glad someone was grave digging as these are some really cool looking spiders and absolutely amazing photographs!!

Actually, Hauser updated this thread with sweet new pics

Ahh, I see, cool!! So are these really the worlds deadliest spiders? I had to do a little reading on them after seeing this thread. I wasn't familiar with them. Amazing, but a bit scary even with the supposed timid demeanor. Only way to survive a bite is to amputate the limb that was bitten immediately?? That was the one source that I read :/ I guess not good with a 4 year old in the house, lol

That's scary "pooh" so no chance of survival at all then really *runs screaming*

dude if i was standing on sand and saw spiders come up out of it....
like mike said, id need a change of pants and id also need a heart transplant

on a serious note, is this species prone to cannabalism or do you move the babies or adults out of the tank or are they communal?

the lycan mikey wrote:

on a serious note, is this species prone to cannabalism or do you move the babies or adults out of the tank or are they communal?

i don't know about cannibalism, i remove the eggsac into a delicup before they hatch. 1-2 weeks after hatching, i separate the spiderlings (legspan ~7mm and fast as hell!!) in small delicups.

i've read some stories about S. hahni being the deadliest spider..... one bite or just a mean look and you're dead before your body touches ground!
i don't believe, i think it's a myth. there's no documented case of a S.hahni bite.
sure, they have a very toxic venom, but the are so tiny and they have an extremely small amount of venom. they are very fast but not aggressive at all and prefer to hide or play dead.
but i keep my S. hahni with the same caution as my other potentially lethal animals and i would never encourage anybody to do different!