Centruroides Balsasensis Breeding Report

I purchased 4.4.0 C.Balsasensis on 25 OCTOBER 2009 for a mass breeding project. I was told 2 of them are already gravid but i'm not sure which one as they all looks the same size. I noticed the 1st mating on the 1st night i got them, 2 males are fighting over a female on a log i put in the enclosure

I left them over night and found a spermatophore at the next morning and i have never witness any mating nor found any spermatophore since then

Several weeks later i noticed one of the female is bloated up and faint reddish embryo are visible on the side of her pleural membrane and separated her in another container

Around 3weeks later, 7 DECEMBER 2009, i woke up in the morning and found 2 babies trying to climb on her back
She was all covered with babies within 2hours and was munching down underdeveloped eggs after i finish my breakfast. Rough estimation around 15 healthy babies was born

The other 3 female have visible faint reddish embryo visible too and i separated all of them from the communal tank and expecting more brood from them very soon

Here's some pictures to share
Spermatophore found on the next day i got them

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7 DECEMBER 2009

Babies marching to mom's back

After an hour

Process done, munching time

Temperature: Approx 27-31ºC

Humidity: Approx 60-70%

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8 DECEMBER 2009

Not much different, i mist the enclosure a lil bit hoping they will turn to 2instar sooner

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9 DECEMBER 2009

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10 DECEMBER 2009

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11 DECEMBER 2009

Found one scorpling walking on the substrate I picked it up and noticed the tail was flat and cant cling well on my palm but i put it back on the mom's back anyway

Their color are turning darker

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12 DECEMBER 2009

Some are molting when i checked on them It took approx 5hours for all of them to molt to 2instar. It's amazing to see them hanging and molting upside down. At 1st i thought they ll fall on the substrate to complete the molt but their climb back on the mom's back to pull out the metasoma part instead

Found one dead on substrate tho...

I then separated the other 3gravid female from my communal setup in containers below

One of the setup

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13 DECEMBER 2009

7th day, all molted to pretty 2instar

They looks way bigger after the molt and their tails are really long

Here's a picture for u guys to figure out their size

Exhibition @Jaya One, Palm Square 2

Yesterday was the launching of pets ownership in Jaya One, Palm Square and we was invited to exhibit our inverts and give a talk bout care and tips for invert pets

Overall it's a nice event with lots of crowd and booth, but not much of them are interested with inverts

It's sad when no one is listening while our representative are giving the talk but i salute his courage to continue talking till the end

Met up with a lot new people, cats, dogs, turtles and other inverts lol

Aside from that, I got the chance to learn how to use a 3ccd cam corder and it's really awesome!

Took some pictures and video on the event, will edit the video in future and upload it

Not much report today as nothing special really happen (Funny no joker approach us in this exhibition haha)

Overall view of all the booth in the event

Scorpion display tank

Nhandu Chromatus

Grammostola Poteri

Opistophthalmus Boehmi

Leiurus Quinquestriatus

Androctonus Bicolor

Hadogenes Pauciden

Heterometrus Spinifer in food heaven

Some live porn to spice up the event

Dog obedient training team demonstration

Sifu Dennis in action

He want the ice cream

Eric from Sugar Glider booth giving talk

Tangerine Enigma (If not mistaken)

Lol.... I was in love with this guy

Orgy Party, turtle style

Hisser!

The infamous Lychas Scutilus baby, i was lucky to have it

Enclosure

Centruroides Margaritatus 7instar, size compare to my thumb

Side by side with a 6instar

A rough sketch of our future logo by Rideon

Turning it in Adobe Illustrator, not final design tho

Animal Wonder Exhibition@ Seremban2

There was a small exhibition yesterday in Seremban2 and we was invited to exhibit our arachnid by Darren

The journey to the venue is really long and bored, it tooks me around 2hours to reach the destination using public commuter

I brought a Leiurus Quinquestriatus, a Pandinus Carvimanus (for sale) and my colony of 7Centruroides Balsasensis to be display there

Upon arriving, the 1st thing in my mind was this place is HOT!

The exhibition was held in a open area with a small event tent for our booth

The crowd was good, a lot of people was there but not much stop by and ask questions

Most of them just come and have a few peek and went away

Some even pulling their childrens to prevent them from getting near to us

Like usual, a freak show instead of a education exhibition

One thing that always happen when u are doing an exhibition is that u always met up with funny people

People who think they know those inverts we displayed better than us

No, i'm not saying that we are the only one that understand them but they are really arrogant and have no idea of what they are talking about

A old man in his 80s wearing a pair of big old fashion glasses with a tough guy in his 30s wearing a green color shirt came to us and claim that they are the scorpion and centipede king and start bragging how great they are in the past and saying the way we keep our inverts are all wrong

The old man aka the centipede king even claim that kissing a king cobra trick is outdated and he swallow the whole king cobra like how they swallow a sword

Perhaps the king cobra he meant was the one hiding in the so call scorpion king's pants

Pictures

Happy Shao and Rideon pedophiling young childrens

One of them, looking at a bunch of centipedes in the bottle

Cyclosternum sp

Uroctonus Mordax, dedicated to Mike

A death male Malaysian Earth Tiger :(

Scorpio Maurus

Some big ass turtle

Baby Sulcata

Pig Tail monkey

Ferret

Racoon, this guy like to bites lolz

Photographer rideon in action!

Stage performance by Francis and the gang

Behind the scene

Petting zone