[Sharing] WHO MOLTED TODAY? (Post molting pics here!)

Cool! Im curious. I thought only Parabuthus species grew that big molt per molt. The thing you see crawling out of the old skin is just mindboggling how big it can be housed in something that small. Looks like hottentotta use exactly the same trick.

I'd say that she is about 2 1/2" from mouth to acleus now. At i2 her size was comparable to an i2 A. australis

ok thanks, very interesting. This entire thread is! If you want to learn about a species, this is the topic.

I've got to see if I can get video of her hunting. She is quite aggressive, much like your Parabuthus are.

GS posted some great Hottentotta feeding videos a while back...

Yes 21 or so in a toolbox.. they ALL took the food. Quite scary little loonies. Be prepared to get overrun by hottentotta babies -)

Oh yeah. Add them to the 60+ slings I've already got from my P. boreus. Ihave read somewhere that they can mature and start producing at i6, but I'm hoping she'll get to i7 before she starts popping on me.

pluto wrote:

Art dude! You should publish those.

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lolz.. thanks Sam

Streettrash wrote:

Oh yeah. Add them to the 60+ slings I've already got from my P. boreus. Ihave read somewhere that they can mature and start producing at i6, but I'm hoping she'll get to i7 before she starts popping on me.

Yes, they can start giving you broods at i6. The overrunning issue most likely comes in when you raise all the slings from your first batch to adulthood

Hope I can get rid of most of them prior to that to be sure.

OMg Gs think those smithy pics are the most beautiful T pics ive ever seen...such clarity and detail awesome and i agee you should get all your pics published!


@street gorgeous scorpion.... does anyone else collect all there molts lol?

*~BEX~* wrote:

does anyone else collect all there molts lol?

I do. I have most of mine in delicups, labelled according to species and instars. Only thing I don't keep are the early instar T molts.

i collect my molts.i just drop all the molts of my ts and scorps in a lil plastic toothpic container.

a couple more of my c.sculpts molted to 4i.
heres a good pic for you Pluto.an example of their resting stance and how they stretch out.(two different specimens but both approx same size).


i take that back what i said earlier about their molting positions.they molt in any which angle possible.

Thanks for the pics shiner, it does indeed take on the same poses as tityus species. When walking its cool to see them stretch out and go into sprint mode.

its like a hadoeken when they get moving!

Cool pics they are a really nice orange colour!

everytime i look at em i want an orange creamcicle.

haha nice! I really like these, looks such a bright orange.

One of my H. tamulus just molted to 4i. Probably the other 2 will follow in the next days.

Something is fishy around house Sam. I have a Androctonus bicolor scorpling born on the 22nd of July which, today, turned instar 4..........

I have no idea why they are molting this quick in succesion with serious jumps in growth...
DolbyR, do you have an instar 4 bicolor atm?

Something is strange, seeing people have bicolor scorplings which are older and still instar 2 or instar 3 max. I still have two instar 2s and the rest are instar 3 with one instar 4 and 1 suspected to molt very soon too...

Its cool though.

I'll take a pic soon

No 4i's yet. One 2i and the rest are 3i's.

Molting demon A bicolor i4

@ Dolbyr i thiought that was two molts when i first looked lol great pics

@Pluto thats soooo cute

Well it just molted so it cant sting yet, thats why I took it on my finger lol

i love a freshly molted scorpion

@DolbyR
Congrats my friend. Great specimens there.
I like the pictures you posted. Seemingly an earthquake just happened at your place!

@Sam
Congrats too!
Some Androctonus bicolors does molt fast.
I've several 2.instar specimens has attained 5.instar in 3mths from birth.
But their colors are not as dark and awesome like yours.
Currently they are still residing in tackle-boxes... moving them to larger deli-containers soon