Private breeder of Tarantulas, Scorpions, 4 types of Roaches and Superorms. Resides in sunny S. Ca. This blog is all about my collection of various critters. You'll find care sheets, tutorials and various information on my Reptiles & Inverts.
DISCLAIMER: Handling scorpions with potent venom is not advised or endorsed by author. In certain cases of envenomation, hospitalization has been required. Please use extreme caution when handling/dealing with any species of scorpions.
My Scorpion collection is a small collection of some scorpions I raise and breed. I removed most of there bark in the video before filming to keep my time down. My P. imperator were the only ones to eat on camera, everyone else ate afterwards as you’ll see in the pics towards the end of video.
Keep in mind that when scorpions hide under bark, rock, etc… some species like Centruroides sculpturatus and Tityus stigmurus cling upside down under there hide. So use extreme caution when picking up there hides to check for them. You could get stung and have a very bad day. I generally use long tongs for these species. I don’t recommend handling scorpions because of there unpredictable nature. But if you do, research the species in question and be prepared for the worst. I personally don’t handle mine, don’t see a need to.
Below is a list of what I currently have, I am looking for new additions all the time. For those not familiar with the numbers to the left of each name, they are, The #s represent Male.Female.Unsexed
I received 4 new additions this week, 2 Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Green Bottle Blue) and 2 Heteroscodra maculata (Togo Starburst Baboon) slings. I made a trade with a member on one of the tarantula forums I belong to, Tarantula.us forum. I traded some of my P. lugardi slings for these babies.
The GBB has some really striking colorations and there very active. The H. mac’s haven’t been quite as active, but have webbed up pretty good. I am hoping on doing a feeding video next week on these 2 species. There all around ¾”, housed in 32 oz tall deli cups.
A little description of each of these species!
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Green Bottle Blue)
This awesome terrestrial species comes from the cactus filled scrublands of Paraguana, Northern Venezuela. One of the most beautiful tarantulas in the world, so they say, and I have to agree. The C. cyaneopubescens (Green Bottle Blue) discovered by Schmidt 1995, is a true walking rainbow of color. Dark blue legs and chelicerae, bright orange abdomonal setae, with a metallic green chephalothorax. Under the right lighting conditions, these colors can be very intense, which gives this tarantula much attention by tarantula hobbyists. C. cyaneopubescens can reach a legspan of 5″+ as adults. They prefer the drier side and are probably the toughest thing since an Pterinochilus murinus (Usumbara Baboon)!
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (GBB) sling
Heteroscodra maculata (Togo Starburst Baboon)
This African arboreal, is quite a fantastic, secretive tarantula, that once out in the open, can be seen in all it’s glory! These tarantulas can be aggressive, reaching legspans of 5″-6″…really unique species in the hobby!
Heteroscodra maculata sling
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I have a small collection of Tarantulas, 78 in all, 21 different species and growing. No fancy displays, although I wish I could. I don’t have the room or the funds for that many Ts to house in glass tanks. All my tarantulas are kept in some type of inexpensive plastic enclosures with secure lids with a plastic water dish and peat moss / vermiculite mix for substrate.
Below is my current list of my collection, displaying both latin / scientific and comon names. In the hobby we use the latin names first because they are unique to each tarantula, where as comon names are so similar and duplicated throughout the hobby.
See photos of my growing collection here. New photos added regularly.
For those not familiar with the numbers (0.1.2) above. Reading from left > right, the first “0″ represents “male“, the second “1″ represents “female” and the last “3″ represents “unsexed“. This what a allot of breeders and hobbyists use to display to others what they have in there collections, also very popular on the forums.
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This is an update to my Pterinochilus lugardi (Tanzanian Blonde Baboon) slings that hatched August 19th, 09. After separating and molting to 2i, I ended up with 39 active healthy little babies. There about 3/8″ now and some are eating. There climbing and webbing up there deli-cups.
When they hatched, there were between 80-90 babies. When I went to separate them into deli cups (1st instar), I noticed bout 25 or so had died in the original enclosure they hatched out in. A few days after separating, I lost another 21. I don’t know the reason. They just swelled and died. Everything was right from what I have read and viewed on breeding and rearing slings.
The whole process was awkward from the beginning. Most breeders pull there sacs at around 25 days. I think because I had kept the mothers environment somewhat moist because of the eggs, along with high temps caused the eggs to hatch early, approx. 20 days.
I never pulled the sac, instead pull mom. Made sure the substrate was moist for high humidity. When I separated is when I noticed most of the dead had got stuck under the substrate and webbing. One interesting thing I noticed is that when they are 1st instar, they can’t climb very well if at all and they don’t start eating or webbing until 2i.
I raised many slings before, but this is a 1st from egg. I always planned on breeding tarantulas in a few years, but this female P. lugardi was shipped gravid, possibly unknown to the seller. It’s been a great learning experience.
If I have any left after existing requested orders, I will post them on my website here. If you have any questions regarding my experience with raising slings from eggs, comment and I’ll help where I can.
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