Baby surprise

[Schlyne]

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:



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!

These are C. gracilis babies.

[Schlyne]

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.

[Smulkin]

Good news and nice surprises!

How many younglings do the vitattus typically drop as compared to the gracilis?

[mr~python]

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.

[mlededee]

aw man, that's disgustingly creepy! ok so i'm not much for the inverts. but since you are, congrats!

[cassandra]

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

[Schlyne]

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.

[lillyorchid]

WOW that is so neat!

[Ginevive]

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...

[Tokays_Unlimited]

Very nice!!!Just waiting on a PM from ya

Ill take a few off your hands!