Hottentotta Hottentotta babies

After having my adult Hottentotta Hottentotta for 17days, finally she popped and gave birth to a bunch of tiny puny

Not as much as i expected but still enough to satisfy me haha

According to the seller the last time she popped is about 6-9months ago and her last brood already reach 5th instar

I tried trigger the birth by misting the enclosure and it really work, in just 2days doing it she popped

Amazingly they only took 4days to molt to 2nd instar, i still have to wait till they get down from the mom before calculating them but i have roughly around 10-15 babies

Most of them will be keep by myself or trade to others experienced hobbyist cause i want to ensure they have higher survival rate so we can have more babies in the future and we will not need to import them in anymore in the future

Hope everything will turn out as expected

Pictures

Day1

Day2

Day3

Day4

Found one of them died on the substrate :(

Androctonus Australis died

After 14days of struggling to keep up living, finally Madoka who stucked in her last molt decided to give up living

She passed away peacefully on this rainy morning...

She have been doing well for this few days until last 2days when i noticed she got weaker

I didn't expect she will passed away so fast....

May she rest in peace...

Good days or bad days?

Yesterday when i woke up i checked on my Liocheles Australasiae (2instar) communal tank and found this

One of the freshly molted was being mass cannibalism by its tankmate

I heard that L.Australasiae are more communal when they are still sling, looks like i was wrong

Feel damm sad because i don't have much babies left with me...

Gotta separate them.....

After this bad incident, i got a huuuuuugeeee surprise!

I uncover my Hottentotta Hottentotta hide and found her with babies on her back!

This really made my days, although the brood are not as much as i expected but i'm glad she doesn't abort her eggs like many others keeper experienced

I counted roughly 15-20babies with some inferterlized eggs where the mom are eating them

I woke up in the morning today and found another bad incident happened, my OBT died!

Killed by a oversized mealworm that i throw inside its container yesterday

I thought that it can overpower and eat it but somehow i was wrong and the predator became the prey

I throw the fucking mealworm in front of my Leiurus Quinquestriatus and watch it being eaten and suffer in agony

Serve it right, should have crush his fucking brain before feeding it

Like yesterday, bad incident usually follow up by a good event, my Grammostola Rosea molted

She is so much bigger now, one of the legs that have been missing due to bad molt regenerated and it looks so funny having a miniature legs :p

I sexed it and turn out to be female, just as i expected, hope she can matured soon

Pictures as usual

Mother hood

Poor OBT :(

Culprit!

Die die u fucking worm!

Molted Rosea

Who say female raise up hand~

Pets World Day Arachnid Exhibition

There is a small tarantula booth in the Pets World Day on 3-5 of July and i was there to help out too

During the whole 3days i learned alot and see different people, curious, funny, wise, arrogant, ignorant etc

Thanks Andrew and Dennis for correcting my mistake and taught me new stuff bout tarantulas so i didn't give the wrong information to the public

It was a tiring days but its all worth for it, expecting the next exhibition

I met with alot of forumer that i never meet before as well as knowing some new great friend

Also there is a guy that pissed me off so much

He bought a scorpion (H.Spinifer) from my friend's booth and request for it sting to be clipped

Saying that his friend will handle it in very rough method and will be safer if it cannot sting

No matter how i convince him that it should not be handle and his friend is not suitable for scorpion but he just won't listen and have it clipped at last

Seriously his friend should just get a hamster instead of a scorpion

I hope his girl will ask for cutting off his balls to prevent her from underage pregnant, just like what he did for the scorpion

Some pictures to share, credit to Dennis, Rideon and Andrew

Some handling picture after the event

If everything goes well we will have another exhibition on 24 and 25July =p

Picture unrelated

My friend's new sg blue sling, thanks Rafiqos for the great discount

Some of my scorpion setup

Boredoom+a digital camera= Pictures of my scorpion enclosure

Hottentotta Hottentotta

Orthochirus Innesi

Hottentotta Polystictus

Rhopalurus Junceus

Parabuthus Pallidus

Tityus Stigmurus

Leiurus Quinquestriatus

Androctonus Australis

Update of my Androctonus Australis

Still alive and kicking, the 2pair of legs behind seems to be not functioning

She still looks weak but got a lil bit stronger since the 1st day

Hopefully she will be able to walk on her own pretty soon and survive till adulthood and give me some babies =p

Aside from that, i have my 1st haircut in 2009 just now

Tomorrow will be at a exhibition helping on the tarantula booth, must cut my hair neatly :p

Before

After

Ciaoz~