Rhopalurus garridoi
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Rhopalurus garridoi
I saved this one from a bad moult and it is doing wonderfully well
4th instar
4th instar
shaneshac- Spermatophore
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Join date : 2014-02-04
Age : 47
Re: Rhopalurus garridoi
At 1700 i found him like this:
Then 20mins later it was like this
It stayed like that for 2 hours without moving with the scorpion getting weaker and weaker
So with a scalpel and pin i opened the old exuvia slowly and pulled up on the tail with the tongs. The scorp started moving and the telson of the exuvia broke off leaving the new telson exposed with the next segment strangulating the fast expanding telson
I had to cut the off too and put the scorp in ICU for a few days
See the white telson which had been strangled for a while.
Then 20mins later it was like this
It stayed like that for 2 hours without moving with the scorpion getting weaker and weaker
So with a scalpel and pin i opened the old exuvia slowly and pulled up on the tail with the tongs. The scorp started moving and the telson of the exuvia broke off leaving the new telson exposed with the next segment strangulating the fast expanding telson
I had to cut the off too and put the scorp in ICU for a few days
See the white telson which had been strangled for a while.
shaneshac- Spermatophore
- Posts : 77
Join date : 2014-02-04
Age : 47
Re: Rhopalurus garridoi
I can understand the anxiety as we watch our scorpions getting weaker each time they tried to wriggle their way out of the old exuvia.
Glad that it all worked out well. Thanks for sharing!
Glad that it all worked out well. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Rhopalurus garridoi
A great proof that sometimes it is indeed possible to save a scorpion from what some would consider a "certain death
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