I have five H. spinifer (or longimanus, kindof hard to tell) of mixed genders that I've been keeping in two seperate colonies for some time now. I decided yesterday to try merging the whole lot of them in one large storage bin to give them some more legroom and save me some space and cleaning effort. The bin is about the same floorspace as a 30g aquarium but wider by about 3" (depth-wise) and obviously significantly shallower. I set it up with three large hides, some grapevine, a mossy area, and two water bowls. I'm hoping to buy a larger and more naturalistic bowl to replace the ceramic one shortly so that I can observe bathing behaviors. At any rate, The introduction went well - only one minor squabble over a hide that used to belong to one of the larger females. They sure weren't happy with me though - check out the threat display pics!


Tags: H Spinifer H Longimanus Asian Forest Scorpion Scorpion