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  • 08-06-2006, 05:15 PM
    Schlyne
    Baby surprise
    I haven't been around here at all this summer, life has been hetic.

    Just a couple of recents shots. About 3 weeks ago, when I was at Arachnocon, this happened:

    http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7...lbabiesqe3.jpg

    She had 35 babies total. 2 died a watery grave, as I had set up a temporary moat around her deli cup, in case any of the babies crawled out before I could get in there and seperate them all.

    I fed them all last night, it went well. With these unexpected additions, I now have over 100 inverts in my care! :O

    These are C. gracilis babies.
  • 08-15-2006, 03:37 PM
    Schlyne
    Re: Baby surprise
    So about two days ago one of my C. vittatus scorpions had babies as well.

    I collected 5.6.0 C. vitattus scorpions at Arachnocon, and I expected at least two of them to be gravid. I'll try and get a good picture later, I don't want to distrub the mother too much. I've seperated her from the rest of the colony though.
  • 08-15-2006, 04:07 PM
    Smulkin
    Re: Baby surprise
    Good news and nice surprises!

    How many younglings do the vitattus typically drop as compared to the gracilis?
  • 08-15-2006, 04:50 PM
    mr~python
    Re: Baby surprise
    thats very cool, but also kind weird looking to me at the same time, lol. the purple bodies with orange (pinchers, claws?) looks very cool. like halloween decorations.
  • 08-15-2006, 04:55 PM
    mlededee
    Re: Baby surprise
    aw man, that's disgustingly creepy! ok so i'm not much for the inverts. but since you are, congrats! :D
  • 08-15-2006, 05:03 PM
    cassandra
    Re: Baby surprise
    We were in our newest favorite reptile store on Saturday getting snakey din-dins and one of the guys there was separating itsy-bitsy baby scorpions into tiny deli cups...insane how small they were and how painstakingly the guy was sifting through the mom scorpions deli cup to find the babies (she was in another cup by herself keeping an evil eye on the guy "What are you doing with mah babies?!"). =D
  • 08-16-2006, 10:19 AM
    Schlyne
    Re: Baby surprise
    I would guess that the averages are about the same (30ish?). Atm she looks like she has about 20, but the babies are smaller than the C. gracilis babies were. I'll give a full count in a couple weeks when they are ready to come off her back and I'll start seperating them into vials.
  • 08-16-2006, 08:52 PM
    lillyorchid
    Re: Baby surprise
    WOW that is so neat!
  • 08-20-2006, 06:47 PM
    Ginevive
    Re: Baby surprise
    Wow, that is awesome; reminds me of a crayfish i saw last summer with a ton of teeny babies on its back.
    Do you plan on keeping them or selling? I would think that local pet stores would be interested in them...
  • 08-20-2006, 07:10 PM
    Tokays_Unlimited
    Re: Baby surprise
    Very nice!!!Just waiting on a PM from ya;)

    Ill take a few off your hands!
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