Help is our scorp eating its scorplings?

JamieLawrence wrote:

Oi stop peeking Looking good though ay, lets hope they get up on mums back.

lol cant help it its sat right next to me with a towel over the top if they do get on her shall i put that other one back in with her do you think?

From the photo above it looked like more poorly-developed young . . . I had a V. spinigerus pop out a "clump o' babies" and then chomp 'em down later that day.

However, I think you have a shot with the one good one you rescued. I had a brood of U. mordax with one that wandered off from mom and made it just fine to second instar.

there so cute lol

well fingers crossed, maybe i will rescue more, they are wiggling under her so they might be ok, just depends on what she does with them i guess, ill keep an eye on things see how they go

Im sorry bex i can empathize with you as i just had to endure the exact same thing less than a week ago... i am taking all of the good advice i have gotten on here for my next attempt though...

I also had one that stayed under mama when mine were dying and being eaten and it lasted the longest so i hope yours makes it all the way i think mine died due to the poor environment i had her in

not sure why she is eating some but the ones she is eating seem not fully formed ...on the plus side though one has made it onto her back...yay ....but seems to be 4 gathered around her mouth one is just a blob...appologies for poor picture quality but im not wanting to remove the lid and disturb her.....

You are right, dont disturb her. Quality right now doesnt matter.
At least you will have one baby to take care of already.... Can only get better now ;-)

2 on her now and another on the way and she has dropped 2 on the bark but they are wiggling, and she eating another blob, seems quite a few are deformed

My guess is you'll get 8 youngsters...

Nice one! At least a few have made it and maybe more, is she still in the birthing position? Is the one you separated still going?

Wootz! at least a few made it up there & more on the way hopefully
Should have enough to get a small colony started.. ha

Well all but two have vanished those two are safe on her back, she never appeared to be in any position was just sat as she normally would be, I think there was problems with the birth a lot seems to be just blobs of white with no limbs, I think the separated one has died as it's not moved since input him in and he doesn't move when touched at all ....

****edit just looked and they are still coming out!! I can see two on top one trying to get round and another 2-3 underneath this birth is going on forever! I thought I wa bad with 18 and 20 hour births with my two lol she's been going for over two days now!

lol yup fingers crossed it all works out right now there is 4 on her back and another 3/4 on the substrate around the tub just hope they can survive off of her back

Wow that's an immense labour time, my spinigerus was done over night but that's the only experience I have to go on.

Fingers crossed for the bubba's!

Cmon 8!!!!

JamieLawrence wrote:

Wow that's an immense labour time, my spinigerus was done over night but that's the only experience I have to go on.

Fingers crossed for the bubba's!

thats what makes me think something isnt quite right with the whole thing, still some coming out now! be nearly 3 days in the morning

Pluto wrote:

Cmon 8!!!!

fingers crossed

hi bex have u got an update on the little guy and gals

This is her right now, there are about 4 or maybe more one the substrate though

***Update***

Think we counted about ten on her back and about 7 on the substrate

Conditions goin good

hope for the best

thats awesome news bex bet ur happy now lol and no wonder she looked like she was gonna burst lol

Yep very happy indeed even the lil guys on the substrate seem fine the all moving about and stuff they're soooo tiny though lol can't wait for first molt gonna have a real good colony out of these guys hopefully can breed off them and start sharing with peeps do scorpions have problems with being inbred?

No significant probs that i've heard of. There are scorps breeder who get a whole lot of scorplings from a single mum and proceed with inbreed. Although if possible, it'll be good to add in diff bloodline to the group
Maybe those with more inbreed exp can provide more insights.

& congrats Bex! 10 & more to come. Seems like there's alot of anxious uncles sharing your joy here