Urophonius granulatus

getting a Urophonius granulatus this week, any1 got any care sheets or experiance with this??

they are teensy, keep them on the cool side (around 70F) and keep them dry.

they look pretty awesome.. mabye you'll be lucky and get a gravid female or summink.

yeah lets hope so!! will they be ok at that temop? i was thinking around 25/28oc

these scorpions and bothriurids in general do not like high temps. infact, if it gets to high for them to handle, they may die. they prefer it around the 70 - 75 mark.

ok then, room temp it is lol!!

Yeah room temperature is good and at adult size they are less than an inch, the also like to burrow so i keep them in a mixture of coir/sand

keep them in the coolest part of your room basically.

in the wild they rarely live in temperatures higher than 16degrees C

I kept these not so long ago but my room was too warm for them and they ended up dying, including a gravid female.

they will burrow slightly, but the females are more likely to do the burrowing, the males are happy enough digging out a scrape under a small piece of cork bark.

males are very small and thin, females are larger and stockier. The males also have a little tubicle on the inside of their peds. basically looks like a zit lmao!

spray once or twice a week, keep damp but not wet. for substrate i recomend a sand / coir mix of about 50/50. you will need 2" max.

if you do a search on the forum I have a couple of previous threads on this species

excellent i'll see if i can find the threads!! i cant wait! i love the smaller species for some reason!

so do I.. the attitude of them is awesome... like little jack russels, small but think they are the size of a german shepherd!!!

oh and BTW my avatar is a picture of my ex gravid female U.G.

Are those the wood pgmy scorpions? Very nice markings. I like the little species more and more. I am getting a Pandinus Miliataris next for a larger single species. Then a H. Spadix...then I will chill for a bit. After that week I'm going to get a...

small species are good
very space saving

i will defo be getting some more of these!! love it to bits!! any 1 got any pics of the pygmy desert scorpion??

scorpion111 wrote:

these scorpions and bothriurids in general do not like high temps. infact, if it gets to high for them to handle, they may die. they prefer it around the 70 - 75 mark.

I've a Bothriurus spp. and I keep her in a little bit of peat/coco/sand/tiny pebbles @ room temps and she's doin fine. I've pieces of cork bark and board in there for her to hide in/under. Also a cap for a water dish

sounds good bud

here's one lol
<<<<<<<< that is a gravid female

if you look on scorpion files under gallery you will find my other pictures
Also do a search on here you should find my thread with pictures

awsome thank you!! i'm just really loving this species at the mo!!

yeah i thought they were pretty neat. but alas i cant really get anything else at the moment until we sort out the tarantula collection lol!

hoping to get some more this year though and have another go at breeding them

if you breed them save some for me!!!!

will do

thank you!!!