Centruroides Margaritatus Breeding report

Temperature: Approx 29-31ºC

Relative Humidity: Approx 70-80%

Duration: Approx 8-10minutes

It's only third day since my female C.Margaritatus molted to adulthood and i got her mated today cause i'm getting impatient

I begin by putting the female into a large container full of coco fiber with 2 piece of flat surface and let her run around in the container and drop her pheromone

After around 5minutes, i put the male inside and he begin to juddering like mad instantly

I don't even need to guide him to the female, he just walk to her while juddering and straight away grab her by her tail and gave her a stung her to calm her down

The male then started to hold her hand and the dance begin

He cant seems to find the flat surface as the container they are in was too big (I did this so that the male have more space to escape after the mating) so i took the flat bark and put it behind them

Soon enough, they are both dancing about on the bark and started kissing

The male's front legs are vibrating as well and i observed a strange behavior which i have never read nor heard bout it before

The male pull the female up and stick his front legs below the female pectines and start stimulating her pectines

I'm not sure why it happened but it last bout 10sec before he put her down, dance again and repeat it for around 10timesAfter awhile finally he laid down a spermatorphore and dragged the female on it

As soon as the female took it, they started to sting each others and i stop them with tweezer and remove both of them

Now i just need to wait and observed to see if the mating was successful or not

So, here's some pictures

Male approaching female

The male raising up the female

From this picture u can see the male front legs below the female pectines

Sperm :P

Finally an update!

Sorry guys, i have been real busy, tired and lazy lately

A lot of time when i wanted to update my blog my internet line was slow like a slowpoke and i cant upload any photo and decided to try again another day and that alone delayed until now...

Ok so what happened during the period where i didn't update my blog was:

1. I got a new DSLR camera! D3000 with a +10 Macro lens

- Bro bought it and asked me to share, well i don't have a choice but this is definitely be great. Check out my new flickr album

2. All of my Centruroides Balsasensis molted to 3instar!

- Only 6left due to cannibalism and dehydration, i separated them and they all molted in a few days =D

3. Bought some new scorpion and a Tarantula

- A gravid Leiurus Quinquestriatus (With some heavy mycosis infection)

- A pair of adult Lychas Mucronatus (Sadly the male died yesterday, but the female looks gravid)

- A pair of Babycurus Jacksoni (Both died after a while zzzz)

- A Tityus Stigmurus (Death on arrival)

- A Psalmopoeus Irminia

- Ok, in the end i only got 2 new scorpion up till now... Fuck my life....

4. Sold my Mesobuthus Martensii to make space for my growing collection

- They all went to a good home :)

5. More molt

- Hottentotta Hottentotta (6instar), Centruroides Margaritatus (8instar) x2, Pterinochilus Murinus, Lasiodora Parahybana, Holothele Incei, Cyclosternum Fasciatum, Cyriopagopus Schiodtei and Psalmopoeus Irminia

6. Bred my Centruroides Margaritatus

- Been waiting for this for a long time! Full breeding report will be posted in the next update

7. Started to keep mantis!

- Found a small mantis in my friend's carnivorous plant and decided to keep it

Well i think that's all i can think of now...

Here's some pictures

1.0 Centuroides Margaritatus 8instar

Hottentotta Hottentotta

One of the Centruroides Balsasensis baby

Gravid Leiurus Quinquestriatus

New Psalmopoeus Irminia

Dead on arrival Tityus Stigmurus (Don't ask me, i have no idea what make it like that...)

New mantis

Can u spot it on the right side of the container?

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