fake skulls

hi everyone i was wondering if anyone new where to buy fake skulls in england . cause i want a desert hairy but want a fake skull for its hide any ideas pls let me know and dose anyone no a good invert shop in the uk who will ship me a desert hairy any help would be brill

We got our Haddy from predator or prey dunno if they have any now though, we got a cool fake skull off eBay and got a alligator/ croc skull from pets at home, I found it's beat to get things meant for aquariums seem to be slightly cheaper

thanx for ur help bex ive only just got my emps but im already well and trully hooked on this new hobby lol got a bit of time to find one ive asked my missus if she can get it me for my birthday lol

Once u have one scorp you are hooked and it's only a matter of time before the next lol there us a scorpaholics annonymous topic somewhere lol hangono here's a link

https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t5612-scorpaholics-anonymous?highlight=Scorpaholics

we started with one emp last year and had like 19ish others sincesince Lolz you wanna get down to sheerness and catch some for yourself we went and caught our own it was awesome gonna go again soon it's deffo worth the trip!! Here's a link to my original port on them....

https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t5330-sheerness-dockyards-yellowtail-scorpion-colony-uk?highlight=Sheerness

Yeah i started 4 months ago and now i have two emperors, one desert hairy. a pinktoe tarantula i got 3 days ago and today at 11 pm my friend gave me an adult chillean rose tarantula because he didnt want it anymore. My parents still do not know about my newest pet xD they will be happy when they find out tomorrow morning xD

Same here.... Started in January and ATM I have 7 scorps, and 2 more are on their way..

they are some cool scorps bex cant belive we actually have wild scorps in england how do u care for these guys then

i was shocked when i found out we had them in the uk, its mental really, been here for hundreds of years yet id never heard about it till last year lol, apparently came over from Italy on shipmenst of masonary!

I have put them on a sand/cocoa fibre mix with slightly more sand than fibre, as didnt really know what to do with them as they live in a wall lol, i put bits of broken brick in for them to hide in/under i dont spray much just a little bit and they seem to do fine, what id really like to do is have a large but taller rather then wide tank and have the whole back like a fake brick wall, with cracks dug out for them to get into, maybe carved out of polystyrene or something, just so its closer to ehat they are used to, they are incrediably active, easily the most active scorpions we have, if you do go to get some the main thing you need is a blacklight/UV torch it is nearly impossible to spot them without one

I got a couple of fake skulls from swallow aquatics if you have one of those near you, I suppose any aquarium place will do them or as said there's loads on ebay if you can await delivery.

Can't seems to find any H arizonensis for sale at the moment, they get snapped up pretty quickly these days.

Yeah this hobby is too easy to get addicted to, i'm pretty sure noone stays with just one scorp. I suppose once you have one it's not much extra work or cost to add another, and another.....untill you've allowed more room for tanks than yourself like me I really need to get over scorpaholics! On second thoughts that will probably end up with me getting more scorps

on the desert hairy maybe if i ask yhe guys in the exotics shop then maybe they can order me one from ther suppliers or something

if i cant get a desert hairy wot would be another good desert species that will be easeyer to get my hands on wot about these israili golds or are they for more experiend keepers

scorpio maurus are cool! bugzuk have some large for £15

http://bugzuk.com/scorpions.php?page=6

heres some pics of ours...

It's worth a try mate. Wasn't that how you got your Haddy Bex? Probably worth giving the main invert suppliers a call or email. BugzUK, Virgina Cheeseman, Spidershop.

Israeli gold usually implys Scorpio maurus which arnt meant to be to bad to keep although mine died recently so I can't really talk

Other desert species i have experience with that I would recommend are Hoffmannius/Vaejovis spinigerus and Smeringurus mesaensis.

It's just getting hold of them over here that's hard.

Remember though, they're probably not going to be large! I think he picked me out the smallest he had, cheers lol yours are probably 3 times the size mine was.

Sweet pics, Scorpio really stands out bright on the black sand

yeah thats why i went for scorpio maurus lol after checking he had some, i wouldn't mind either Hoffmannius/Vaejovis spinigerus and Smeringurus mesaensis, but cant get them
Yeah we got our haddy from Predator or prey but they dont have any scorpions atm

JamieLawrence wrote:

Remember though, they're probably not going to be large! I think he picked me out the smallest he had, cheers lol yours are probably 3 times the size mine was.

Sweet pics, Scorpio really stands out bright on the black sand

thanx ours are small too though only about an inch or so, so yeah certainly not large, that one at the show was huge compared to ours!
My maurus on the black sand has recently dug himself out and started sitting at the entrance to his burrow again, waiting for prey, but the other 2 are in burrows that has colapsed, they are alive coz we can see them by the glass but they are not bothered about eating or anything...weirdo's lol

thganks for the advice guys you have some really nice scorps bex wot size tank would u put a scorpio maurus in and have u got a care sheet for them

is smeringurus mesaensis a dune scorpion im not very good with the latin name gonna have to start learnin as i know some species havent got a common name lol

Yeah mate S. mesaensis is commonly called a Dune scorpion. You'll slowly get used to using the scientific names, I can even spell all the species I keep now lol it's mainly because most common names could actually be several species.

thanks for your help jamie the kids have some candy floss in a plastic cup gonna put that in for my emps for now wil cover it to camoflage it wil this be ok till i can get another natural hide for them and wot size tank would you surrgest for any of the desert species weve talked about and do they all have to live alone or are any of them communal

yeah any hide will do for now,

they are pretty simple to keep, our tanks are 8x8x12" with 4" of sand/excavator clay mix, small shallow water dish, you dont really need a hide as these guys burrow like mad, but its always good to have soemthing in for when they first move in to reduce stress
spray about once a week, temps should be about 24-30c
Some people say they are communal but from what ive read from people with experiance they really are not, we have ours in 3 seperate tanks, its not worth the risk really


i have found these care sheets

http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/S-maurus.html

http://www.schorpioenenforum.nl/index.php?topic=151.0

thanks bexs ur awsome

No problem

would a 30x30x30cm glass tank be ok for a scorpio maurus bex and has the humidity got to be bout 70 percent

Yeah that would prly be fine, and humidity should be about 55%