[Discussion] Capturing Scorpion's Behaviour

It's Rhopalurus junceus.. lolz

@DolbyR
Close bud. The pic is very tricky with the red tint from the IR lamp. I wouldn't be able to guess if she's not mine as well.. haha

@tfleming
Nice 1. How did you guessed it?

If you must know, LOL! It was this area here in the pic.
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Neat! Salute you

One of the signs of a gravid scorpion... keeping the male at a "Tail's length"



[HOW TO] Tell if your Scorpion is Gravid:

Aah thanks GS, that answered a lot of questions, now Im pretty sure my P. granulatus is gravid.

As usual great capture!

tfleming wrote:

As usual great capture!

Thanks bro!

shadowfoot wrote:

Aah thanks GS, that answered a lot of questions, now Im pretty sure my P. granulatus is gravid.

Glad it help
Look forward to your success then!

my emp likes to hang practically upside down in her little tree stump hide i got for her.

Sorry for the bad capture but couldn't miss posting this.
Went in the kitchen for some coffee and it cracked me up when I saw this:

H. troglodytes:

Unfortunately opening the lid would had disturbed her off, so no clearer pics this time.

That's funny.

Here is a video of my silly digger A.B. I always laugh at his moves

DolbyR wrote:

Sorry for the bad capture but couldn't miss posting this.
Went in the kitchen for some coffee and it cracked me up when I saw this:

H. troglodytes:

Unfortunately opening the lid would had disturbed her off, so no clearer pics this time.

So.. Doing handstand does help to fight against insomnia! Lolz

Wearelegion wrote:

Here is a video of my silly digger A.B. I always laugh at his moves

Vid#2 cracks me up.. Lolz
But it clearly shows their reaction against substrate's vibrations.
Great capture

Whats that hide made of (in vid #1)?
It seems like something that i would use

The hide was made from some kind of wood decoration for flowers that I found in some flowers my girlfriend got. Hard to describe but it was a ball from compressed wood with shaved off top (looking as a pot). I just sawed it in half and got nice hides. Problem for Bicolor is that he is digging whole night around his terrarium and allways burries his hide in sand and again when day brakes starts to dig it out...

A neat hide

You mean your A.bicolor dig out and expose his hide at daybreak?

Yes. I think I managed to get just the right temperatura for the peak activity. Never a dull moment with this one.

GS wrote:

Vid#2 cracks me up.. Lolz
But it clearly shows their reaction against substrate's vibrations.
Great capture

+1

Very good documentation.

here is my Hottentotta C. bathing

choose 720p or 1080p for best fullscreen

Nice and detailed vid. Thanks for sharing. But may I ask you to use the "embed" link when posting, makes it more "user friendly" for the forumers.

Interesting video.

Yesterday my second Hottentotta C. poped her joung and I was fascinated to see her gently pick up one of the liittle scorpions by its metasoma and lift it to her back (front part of the body with eyes). Didnt expext to see such thing from a arachnid...

Wearelegion wrote:

was fascinated to see her gently pick up one of the liittle scorpions by its metasoma and lift it to her back (front part of the body with eyes). Didnt expext to see such thing from a arachnid...

It's always nice when you see something like this that shows how good maternal instincts the scorpions in fact do have.

I guess it's good time to remember a similar happening with one of GS' Lychas:
A Lychas mucronatus' True Love Story - by GS

OMG I never saw that it is beautiful.

I found it interesting that both my bicolors dig these sink holes and position themselves always at the bottom facing up as if they are waiting for pray to stumble down to the hole. Don't know if any of you guys had this experience with this spp but my 2 guys use this method pretty well in practice when I put an cricket or roach in there. Also it is a dead giveaway that they are hungry as when they eat they don't go back to the hole, instead the migrate to their burrow. I see now that the picture could be at the lower angle but to explain better it is a 45 degrees angle hole.

Very interesting. Mine has never done that.