Baby surprise

I'm selling. I plan on keeping a few, but I don't need 60 more scorpions!

I have a communal group of 11 C. vittatus scorpions. I may keep a few babies, but almost all of those will be sold. Those babies that will not be sold will be planned for release back into the area the adults were collected in.

I have an advantage of living close to Lee Watson's reptile swap, so I can always put down the money for a table if I need to. I can also contact one of the invert dealers and see if they want some babies in a sale/trade as well.

One of the C. gracilis babies has died, I don't think it was eating, and at any rate, some loss is to be expected. I'm waiting to make sure I've got them fairly well established before I start selling them.

I took pictures of the C. vittatus mother a couple days ago, but the camera battery died in the middle of the photo session and I haven't had a chance to see how the pictures turned out.

Seperated almost all of the C. vitattus babies last night.

I've got 29 seperated into individual vials, and 4 more are still clinging to her back. I'll check on the 4 in a few days, and see if they're left her back and are ready to be seperated.

Thats alot of scorps! :O

Yeah, I tell ya, I don't know how the invert dealers do it. Feeding/watering around 100-150 or so takes long enough. I can't imagine taking care of 5000 inverts.

That is wonderful, congrats!!! I just got my first scorplings a couple of weeks ago. I have 5 3/4 inch emperor scorpions. They are so cute!!!

Congratulations again on all of your babies!!!!!

The other 4 left her back last night and were seperated.

Mom is now back in the adult communal tank.

Cool ass stuff. I don't know much about inverts but what kind of market is there for them? I'm not a big fan of bugs, spiders, etc but I find it all pretty cool..

You probably wouldn't make as much money off of them as you would snakes, the most expensive one I've ever seen is the Singapore Blue at 100 bucks, unless you are a huge dealer. If that is what you're asking?

That was probably a WC singapore blue imported. Standard price for a singapore blue is around $230 or so.

The P. sp. "tigris" (I dont' recall it's new name atm) will run you about $375.

I don't think there are as many people into "bugs" as there are people into herps, so the overall market is probably smaller. However, in the US there are about 8-10 full time invert dealers. Most T's on average will run about $40-60 or so.

It is an extremely addicting hobby, more so than snakes. T's take up a lot less room and almost all species are fine at room temp. The average hobbyist collection is around 100. The invert forum I read has 2,813 active members, (with about 8,000 registered) and it has some international forums for people in certain areas (like a canada only section, along with the rest of the site). According to the stats, 592 people have visited that board today :)

That is so flippin" awesome! Cute babies too! I had an african emperor momma once, as well as a (striped tail?) -she was very small, and the babies were so tiny!! Sooo cute! I lubs "bugs" too, and am looking to replace my CRH, "Rosy", as she passed away last week.....:(