Half decent camera i used to take some photos of some of my collection. Beats using my mobile phone.

Iomachus politus



Bothriurus sp. (1)

Bothriurus sp. (2)


Hadgones paucidens 2i


Pandinus imperator colony 1.2.0

Pandinus imperator female which gave birth to my 4i's and 5i's


Pandinus imperator young


Heterometrus spinifer


Heterometrus madraspatensis


Heterometrus mysorensis


Smeringus mesaensis (male)


Smeringus mesaensis (female)


and finally Hadrurus arizonesis


Hope you like my pics. This is some of my collection

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And Kuma its Iomachus politus not Lomachus

That did confuse me, thats what it was sold to me as (with a capitol 'L')

Well i got sold some Uroplectus that turned out to be Hottentotta

i really like the Bothirus species. what conditions are you keeping them in? They look rather plump, and chance one is gravid?

That I. politus looks awesome! Nice pics

Tabor wrote:

i really like the Bothirus species. what conditions are you keeping them in? They look rather plump, and chance one is gravid?

I currently keep mine on a mix of jungle mix, coco fiber, and a little bit of sand. I'm not sure if it's the best mixture to use, but I couldn't find any info on them ...

nice scorps you've got there!!

Bothriurus sp. (1) is a real beauty!

Tabor, I think for most Bothriurids you keep them dry, and quite cool (late 60's, early 70's). a member on here had some urophonius granulatus and they died because them temp rose above that. they seem to be quite sensitive to heat and humidity.

Sweet collection, Kuma.

Call me old-fashioned, but for some reason your emps seem the coolest to me right now. Although, that H. madraspatensis is pretty awesome too.

Thanks for the comments guys

Tabor wrote:

i really like the Bothirus species. what conditions are you keeping them in? They look rather plump, and chance one is gravid?

I keep mine on the same stuff as bjaeger. I also thought that one of mine may be gravid but all the expert eyes on here think otherwise, so maybe not.

I agree with what scorpion111 says about heat and humidity as i lost all my other Bothriurids

Kuma, are you sure that's is a spinifer you got there, cos the pic shows a black telson and the carapace looks a little bit different. I'm no expert but I have a colony of H. spinifers and they look a little different from yours....

I believe thats what it is.

why do you have any suggestions as to what you think it is?

well like I said, I don't claim to be an expert but H. spinifers usually have a brownish red telson when mature. This telson is often creamy white in in young or sub-adults....

If your's is black (unless is a result of the camera), then you might have petersi, or laoticus. In your case its more likely to be pertersi as laoticus tend to have more bulbouse chela. Or in affect that its been a while since I've looked at an adult longimanus.

I could be wrong, forgive me if I am

Here's a link to me id'ing it
http://www.scorpion-forum.com/scorpion-id-f17/is-this-a-heterometrus-spinifer-and-is-it-adult-t2858.htm?highlight=spinifer

And here's some more pics of them
http://www.scorpion-forum.com/scorpions-in-general-f12/here-s-my-hspinifer-t2873.htm?highlight=spinifer