baby scorpion's on the way

ive had this h.spinifer for a few month's now an she just kept getting bigger but as she was from a pet shop it was 50/50 if she was gravid or just due a moult but came home today an she is giving birth right now.
could only see one through the tub so guessing she has just started, will be leaving her alone so i don't stress her.
pic's to follow when she is done but for now here is a pic of her from last week.
i may be slightly exited at the moment

Nice congrats, do you happen to have a picture of her side when she was gravid?

~Abyss~ wrote:

Nice congrats, do you happen to have a picture of her side when she was gravid?

thank's, think i have will have a look

this was a few month's ago when i first noticed her getting fat

and this one was a week or 2 ago

Great thanks I just wanted to compare with one of mine I suspect of premolt

no problem.
just had a quick look i can definitely see 3 scorpling's possibly 4

couldn't resist a couple of pic's, 5 out so far an she still look's huge

Thank you for posting. This is awesome hope you have a huge brood.

finger's crossed for a nice number of them, will leave her in peace until tomorrow then have a re count

oh i know how you feel. my H. longimanus just popped a coupled of days ago but my female only managed to get 7 out and 2 got eaten haha.

congrats, man!

cheer's mate.
just checked on her an she is still giving birth, there's got to be 12+ on her back an their still coming

Fricken sweet dude! Keep us updated on the kids.

Patcho wrote:

Fricken sweet dude! Keep us updated on the kids.

cheer's man, will do

Awesome pics! Congratulations!

update.
she has now finished giving birth and a rough count there is 26 on her back but may be more underneath, she seem's fine and have just taken a pre killed cricket

I love spinifers so much!

Awesome!!
Congrats and nice documentation!!

Take care man!
Joey

Ok so I'm a bit of an expert at counting uncountable white blobs. I'm guessing you have 24 babies there. Best of luck!

I'll trade you 5 of my emps for 5 of your spins? Keep in mind some won't molt and get eaten along the way to 2i. So my count is your final number.

a little update on the baby's.
they have now all moulted an starting to get some colour to them, mum is doing fine an happily eating anything i put in there for her.
some pic's

Got a couple of questions regarding my baby scorpions.
They have now all moulted for the first time an all bar a couple have left her back an are either sat in a corner of the burrow or moving about.
What ive read says remove them once they leave her back/moult to 2nd instar. Do i remove them now?
And a real noob question are they 1st instar when their born or when they have moulted once?

1st when they're born, 2nd when they've been through their first moult.

I generally remove babies once they've all hardened up after moulting to 2i and are obviously completely mobile i.e. they're wandering about away from the mother.

nice one, cheer's callum.
they were all off an moving around the RUB so have now put them all into little setup's, all 29 of them.
there are a couple that are still very small after the moult but finger's crossed they will still eat/survive

will get some pic's of the baby's later