My (no longer) modest Collection

Sorry guys, no scorpion pics this time.

Brchypelma auratum - AKA "Aura" molted 2 days ago:

And my latest additions:

Grammostola porteri 0.1 - WC - AKA "Chili":

Grammostola sp. concepcion 0.1 - WC - AKA "Maria Concepcion":

great pics your chilli looks so fury i wanna stroke it lol, hows its temperament mines a feisty bugger considering they are meant to be docile!

She's the calmest T I've seen until now. Really docile, haven't flicked even 1 hair until now (and I've handled her a lot since saturday). A friend of mine had a porteri too, but his is definitely feisty, and not for handling.

The concepcion is pretty docile too, just a bit faster than the rose... and she's the only specimen on this sp. here, got it through a friend from a more serious collector.

Your collection looks to be growing quite nicely. I wish Hottentotta tamulus and villosus orange morph were available in the states. You may have to change the title of the thread from "modest" to something more fitting like "awesome" or at very least "impressive".

Envyizm wrote:

You may have to change the title of the thread

It will be changed...when my collection reached 50 spp.

Brchypelma auratum - AKA "Aura" molted 2 days ago

Just wow on that one! Looks almost like little flames on all it's knees LOL

Annababe wrote:

Just wow on that one! Looks almost like little flames on all it's knees LOL

Probably why they're called flame-knees

DolbyR wrote:

Annababe wrote:

Just wow on that one! Looks almost like little flames on all it's knees LOL

Probably why they're called flame-knees

LOL, well I did not know that! Go me, hahahahaha

i did not know that either...nor did i see flames however looking back omg there is proper flames thats awesome

*~BEX~* wrote:

nor did i see flames however looking back omg there is proper flames thats awesome

+1

I've never actually looked them that well.. I realized only now that the shape of the red/orange actully is like of a flame. Always thought the common name comes just from the colouring

Now I need a B. annitha too

DolbyR wrote:

*~BEX~* wrote:

nor did i see flames however looking back omg there is proper flames thats awesome

+1

I've never actually looked them that well.. I realized only now that the shape of the red/orange actully is like of a flame. Always thought the common name comes just from the colouring

Now I need a B. annitha too

Indeed you do! LOL

ditto i do too lol

Nothing new this time, but had a bit of time on my hands and took had a photosession with a part of my collection.

Androctonus bicolor:

Brachypelma albopilosum:

Nhandu chromatus:

Iurus dufoureius asiaticus:

Mesobuthus caucasicus:

Pandinus spp.:

Heterometrus swammerdami:

Parabuthus villosus 'oranje':

Hottentotta caboverdensis:

Hottentotta tamulus 'sindicus':

Enjoy!

Hottentotta hottentotta caboverdensis, not Hottentotta caboverdensis caboverdensis is the subspecis.

Will3 wrote:

Hottentotta hottentotta caboverdensis, not Hottentotta caboverdensis caboverdensis is the subspecis.

No.
It was recently accepted as a separate species.

DolbyR wrote:

Will3 wrote:

Hottentotta hottentotta caboverdensis, not Hottentotta caboverdensis caboverdensis is the subspecis.

No.
It was recently accepted as a separate species.

How recently?

It was published in bulletin d'arthropoda n.44 the last august.


Quote from Eric Ythier:

Quote :

The validity of species status of H.caboverdensis has been accepted in a recent note (Ythier 2011, A new locality record for Hottentotta caboverdensis Lourenço & Ythier, 2006, Bull. d'Arthropoda n°44, 8-11).

Finally an update from my side.

Hadogenes paucidens:

Hadogenes troglodytes:

Got 2 more Leopard geckos as well, more on those later on the herp section.

Would I be correct to assume that the H. troglodytes is an adult female?
AFAIK, male's metasoma segments are even longer.

It had stretched the tail out this morning. Approximate total length is 20-21 cm.

Sweet new additions mate, I have a 4i H. paucidens which I've had since 2i over a year and a half ago!!

The troglodytes does look female, males metasoma is seriously long. 2 potentially gravids for ya there if the paucidens is adult

Nah, paucidens is pretty small, about 5cm body.
I might pass by the place again the next days to see if the guy still has any troglodytes left and check if I could get a male too and try to mate them.

Ah ok, one potentially gravid then and one definitely pre-moult. Don't hold your breath for that moult though, could quite a wait left lol

You won't be able to miss the males of these, they really stand out.

Haha, yes. My I. dufoureius was about 6 months in premolt
I think this one is still eating too.

Will keep you posted on what happens with getting a male, although, as you said, she could be already gravid.

Finally a new addition on the scorp side for me

Got this one early this month.

Mesobuthus gibbosus 0.1 (Greece WC):

Nice! Seems like adult by comparing the ventilation hole as size reference.. or maybe that's just a really tiny hole.. lolz

Best if it's WC possibly gravid