***Our ever growing collection.. Enjoy *** Updated 04.05.2011

Thanx all we are very happy with what we have at the moment and kinda forget about the buthides lol but always seem to be trying to decide what to get next, but I think my favorite at the moment has to be our scorp we got by accident (order got messed up) the Bothriurus Sp I love it's colouring

Ha, you got that by accident? That is sweet! I loved that one, probably the most of them all

Yeah we was meant to be sent a brachistosternus sternus ( which after serching doesnt even seem to exist) was a shock when expecting a yellow deserty species to open the tub and see that little fella quite a dark brown colour lol, we believe it's a Bothriurus burmeisteri not 100% though, we was also sold our keyserlingi as " Caraboctonus Sp" which was quite confusing considering the keyserlingi is the only species in the Caraboctonus genera lol

Well it sure sounds like you are making out on this shipping business

I scored my C. Sculpturatus as bonus scorps for ordering a bunch of P. Transvaalicus. All the P. Transvaalicus were DOA but the C. Sculpturatus made it. The are just 2 or 3i but are pretty darn cool looking!

Hope your luck continues

iitomodachi1 wrote:

Well it sure sounds like you are making out on this shipping business

I scored my C. Sculpturatus as bonus scorps for ordering a bunch of P. Transvaalicus. All the P. Transvaalicus were DOA but the C. Sculpturatus made it. The are just 2 or 3i but are pretty darn cool looking!

Hope your luck continues

awesome ahve you posted any pics of them??

231bex wrote:

awesome ahve you posted any pics of them??

I thought I posted some up here but don't recall. I did just post a link to a set of updated pics of my collection on my flickr page. Those pictures are public so you can look at them. It's in the below thread..

https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t5937-recent-collection-pix#69329

I might add that to my sig

Let me know what you think Those C. Sculpturatus are a really cool orange color and a bit feisty

You should def add to your sig!

They are awesome looking very bright orange, every time i see other scorpions i want them lol specially the ones i cant have!

The long legs on your Psalmopoeus Irminia and PsalmopoeusIrminia kinda gave me the creeps lol i really want a tarantula but only coz the creep me out kinda want to test my nerve a bit lol

The Heteroscodra Maculata is crazy looking, so what do you have to do with tarantulas is it basically the same as scorpions just kinda leave them to it, how often do you feed and clean and whatever you need to do with them, is it correct that they dont really need any heating or is it different for different species?

Thanks Yeah, the grass is greener on the other side huh? I hate that! GS does that to me all the time. I'm trying to fight the desire to get into more Andros other than AM until Maddox is a lot bigger but he sure has me wanting an AA!

As for T's it varies a little bit depending on the species but to be honest, I keep my apt at 75 degrees for the pets and only have lamps on the scorps. I keep my T's all right by my scorps though so they are a little warmer. I also have dropped back to feeding 1x per week on everything. This includes my T's. So usually one day a week I feed all adult scorps and P. Liosoma and T's and another I feed all the other scorplings. I should probably pick up to 2x a week for the scorplings again, or maybe every other week 2x a week.
That being said, everybody seems to be doing great

Also if you are freaked by the legginess of some of the T's go with a terrestrial species. Both the P. Irminia and H. Maculata are Arboreal T's which almost always have a lot longer legs. Terrestrial species will have much shorter legs .

I also keep a hands off approach with my T's as I do my scorps. I have handled more T's than scorps due to the occasional escape but do more looking than touching.

Hope all this helps T's are pretty fun to keep too, and very similar to scorps in basic care and maintenance.

Thanx for the info, are t's easy to raise from spiderlings or is it best to get an adult?

Also seen these cute baby corn snakes in one of our local reptile shops and I really want one of those too ( but the owners reserved them for herself and her sister ) oh and an anole or 4 lol they are cool oh and the fiancee wants a turtle too lol Maybe just start a zoo hehehe

the weird thing is my cousin runs an exotic pets business but have never got anything from them, purely because when I asked if they could get me scorpions they only replied to me once then didn't bother again, ao i thought sod you then dont have my money, then the next time I spoke to my nan she asked me "what the hell do you want a tarantula for" I was like scorpion actually and she wasn't impressed so kinda put me off dealing with my own family lol as they just go chatting about ya, dunno where tarantula came from though I was quite specifically asking for scorpions

Lol, nice! Depending on the species, T's will get very expensive when they are mature. You're best off getting a spiderling, but I'd recommend getting something 1" or more. One of mine was 3/4" and I didn't have any problems. But from experienced T owners I was recommended to get something 1" or more, I guess the likelyhood of survival makes a big jump around there. You'll have to read up because T's aren't as good as scorps with water and drown very easily.

Too bad on the snakes. I want some Honduran Corn Snakes. Contimplating picking up a buddies Arizona Mountain King Snake which is a Pyro. But I also want to hunt some Eastern Hog Nose Snakes this spring

If you were here I have a buddy selling his king snake, Uromastyx, anery boa and some other herps fro cheap

Cool my dad had a hog nosed something lol was a grey quite small about 14 inches or so it used to sleep in my sleeve lol, he also had an Emp, and if I remember a huge red corn snake, some kind o tarantula and a geko, we lost the big red snake it got through a hole In the floor boards and we couldn't pull it back through .... Dunno if he ever found it lol it's prly still slivering round the old mental hospital that he use to live and work at

I need more space could have loads of stuff then... Hmmm wonder how much I could sell the kids for.....There rooms are quite large lol.... Only kidding they are my 3rd favorite pet lolz .... Nah I love em really... Honest!

231bex wrote:

Cool my dad had a hog nosed something lol was a grey quite small about 14 inches or so it used to sleep in my sleeve lol, he also had an Emp, and if I remember a huge red corn snake, some kind o tarantula and a geko, we lost the big red snake it got through a hole In the floor boards and we couldn't pull it back through .... Dunno if he ever found it lol it's prly still slivering round the old mental hospital that he use to live and work at

I need more space could have loads of stuff then... Hmmm wonder how much I could sell the kids for.....There rooms are quite large lol.... Only kidding they are my 3rd favorite pet lolz .... Nah I love em really... Honest!

All too funny! My kid doesn't do anything in his room but keep his toys there, I really need to get rid of the toys and set up camp in there

Beautiful pictures...

Bedlam wrote:

Beautiful pictures...

Thanx, amazing what you can do with just an iPhone

It is amazing what people can do on an iphone, think what you could do with a DSLR

i wish!! we was gonna get one for xmas but never did in the end always fancied being a photographer, gets quite frustreating with the phone sometimes though just not clear enough was gonna get that cannon 550d or whatever its called actually cant remember now, anyway money ended up goin gon the kids as normal

updated - added more pics

Updated lost our C.keyserlingi so back down to 23 scorpions again found her curled up on her side, knew it was coming though, she has never eaten and had this blockage/impact/segmant injury since we got her poor thing

Well Bex you couldnt have helped it. Just the way some things go. This was the one that didnt ever eat and hid 24/7?

yeah only in the few days before her death was she out regularly

At least she died at your place, in peace.. if that is any consolidation for you.
I'm sure it was for her.

I have a question for you: where can I find the little maps you stick outside your enclosures in which you put the name and where they come from?

Thanks a lot in advance

i found them on the forum they are done by a guy called Hauser ...

http://scorpions.f1.to/labels/75x50_label_template.psd

the link above is taken from the 'show of your enclosures' thread page 6 second post down

WOW Bex......just......wow.
Great pics for an iphone.
So T's & Snakes are considered exotic pets? I grew up always having both in the house....so why is it so hard for me to wrap my brain around ppl collecting Scorpions??
Oh yeeeaaah....they can kill kids,thats right...lol
well...back to Blacklighting.Theres a HUGE something tucked way back in the crack of a log.Im trying to figure out how to get him (her?) out w/o damage....lol

smoke