Centruroides Balsasensis Enclosure

A male

Another...

A female, suspected to be gravid

Sulking cause was chased away by a female

This guy got the female, mating with her outside her hide

Jizz

Enclosure

Top view

Front view

They love having orgy party on this log

Parcel arrived

After waiting for 10days, my parcel finally arrived today

It contain total of 11scorpion

4.4.0 Centruroides Balsasensis,

1.1.0 Centruroides Sculpturatus Gertschi

and 0.1.0 Hottentotta Hottentotta

Overall, i'm very satisfy with the deal, very neat packaging and polite seller

Too bad the Hottentotta Hottentotta couldn't make it through the journey

She died in the container

She is very gravid thou, i can even see the embryo inside her

Those C.Balsasensis are smaller than i imagined, but they are all very active and doing great in a communal tank

Pictures, as usual

Upon receiving the box

Open up...

Beneath those peanut

Inside it, 11 tube of scorpions

Unpack my 1st female C.Balsasensis, looks gravid hmm

A male C.Balsasensis, the telson was clipped, but the others are fine =(

RIP Hottentotta Hottentotta

Female C.Sculpturatus Gertschi

Male with the trademark long metasoma

Group photo lolz.....

My C.Balsasensis in their communal setup

C.Scultp Gertschi will go to sam on Monday =)

Molting season!

Alot of molt....

Centruroides Margaritatus 6instar

Centruroides Vittatus

Hottentotta Hottentotta 4instar

Heterometrus Longimanus

Grammostola Rosea

Haplopelma Albostriatum

Brachypelma Smithi 5inch+

Not a molt but a nice Scorpion

Orthochirus Innesi

He is up for sale/trade, interested send me a email at shintaro_kagi@yahoo.com

Prefer trading for a adult breeding pair

Pandinus Imperator breeding report 2

12 October 2009

Today i mated both of my P.Imperator again, being convinced that the mating was unsuccessful previously by a friend

This time the female doesn't show much aggression as last time

The male was pushing for a mating dance while the female just keep moving backward but at last was forced into position by the male

Immediately both exchange sting, i used a tweezer to prevent the female from stinging the male until the male finish stinging her

Both was dancing around and the male drop spermatophore not long after that

This time the female stayed on it longer than last time, aprrox 1minutes but i still didn't see her bending down in curve taking in the spermatophore as told by my friend

At least she stay on it longer this time, i will not proceed to mate them again and see how it goes 1st

The break off was a fierce battle between them both and my tweezer Luckily both separated unharmed (Well maybe my tweezer was hurt lolz)

Pictures

It start with a fight

Then with some kisses

Ejaculate and end with fight again

Unrelated

Before

After

Residents (Heterometrus Spinifer)

More tarantulas!

Cyriopagopus Schiodtei

Holothele Incei

Cyclosternum Fasciatum

Rehousing

Enjoying their new home

Got them yesterday, i must say, they are all stunning!

Pandinus Imperator breeding report

4 October 2009

Promenade à deux

"Oh I love u, now let me sting u, bitch"

Chelicarae Kissing

He came

Video

I mated them few days ago when i first got the male but it fail

Both are juddering but male doesnt seems to be interested while the female tried to attack the male several times

After 15minutes i gave up and assume that the female already gravid

I separated them and feed each of them a cricket and heavily misted their enclosure

Few days later (Today) i tried again and this time with better luck

At 1st the female acted aggressively and try to sting him, i stop it with my tweezer

Then the male gave her a sting to calm her down and they start dancing around, passionately

Female keep her chela close to her carapace as in defense mode while the male pulling her around nervously

Within 2 minutes, the male settle down on a spot on the bark in the enclosure and stop there for quite awhile

I look from the side and i can see spermatophore coming out from his opperculum

Upon laying the spermatophore, he dragged the female on it but the female kinda refuse to go near the spermatophore

After trying for awhile the male manage to pull her above the spermatophore

Again i tried to peek from the side to see if it touched her opperculum but before i can see anything they started break off and attempting to sting and pinch each others to death

Immediately i stop them with tweezer and fight off the female and end the mating process

I'm not sure if any insemination was made but the female doesnt stay on top of it for too long nor bending down her body as written in the internet

I assume that she might really already gravid but was calmed by the male sting and was "forced" into the mating

I read that the spermatophore will plug the opening of her opperculum to prevent other male from inseminate her if she already mated

Perhaps she realize that she cant take the spermatophore at the end and tried to break off and kill the male

Whatever it is i'm looking forward to see the outcome