Hadogenes paucidens

I also recently traded some of my 2i GG babies for these 3 Hadogenes paucidens. The sexing is easy enough but since they are WC the ages and potential gravid condition are unknown. I will be attempting mating once they have settled in nicely.

#1 she looks a little smaller then the other female... draw from that whatever conclusions you want.


#2 She seems a little chubby. I'm hoping for a gravid WC here.


And last but not least #3 my stud.

You probably already know this, but you have 1.2.0. Good job! Hope the girls are gravid.

That's why the pictures were labeled she, she and my stud. But good catch if you only looked at the pics.

Yea. Master of the obvious here.

Hey you could have looked at the pics quickly on a cell or I-pad. If you picked that up yourself good job. Not everyone knows the key feature to look for.

For anyone who doesn't know how we figured that out it's the length of the tail and tail segments. Males are MUCH longer then females.

Well I'm on the computer and read that so...

Whatever you still get a hero biscuit for being my lill shreddy.

Ok cool. Thanks!

Great looking scorps! Now the waiting starts....

One of the ladies taking a sip of water.

Sadly #1 died a week ago and when I was cleaing out her tank I found a few weeks worth of dead crickets. It seems she was killing them and then stuffing them under a corner of her hide. Maybe she never settled in or had something else wrong with her as she was a WC.

And I was about to say nothing new or exciting has happened in my collection for a month or more but then I found these. Looks like new years babies. I count 8 easily but there may be a 9th under the dog pile. I'll keep ya posted.

Hooray!!! Is that a normal sized brood? It seems really small. How do you plan on raising them?

Yay! Congrats! Hadogenes broods are always nice to see
She still looks very fat after the brood, any chance of a double clutch from this sp?

@ Shreddy: I think 8 or so is about right for these slow growing and long living scorpions. With all that in mind as well as the fact that they are not considered extremely communal. Shadowfoot has mentioned that in the wild they can be found with separate burrows in very close proximity. However I can't risk the chance that they fight into a corner and one of them dies. So I'll be separating them into individual deli cups and starting the long process of watching them mature.

@ Shadowfoot: I don't know. I hadn't even considered it. I guess I'll have a little bit more homework to do.

So here is the brood today. They have all molted unfortunately one of them lost it's tail in the molt and died. So here are the 7 remaining in all their 2i glory.

I'm assuming the last picture is the one that broke its tail. I heard about that but I guess it is true. Do you know if that happens with older specimens too?

I assume if they have bad molts the issue of their tails being so fragile must make up most of the injuries. Time will tell in my case study.

Well good luck with that. Hopefully no one bruises their tail-bones.

The look of Hadogenes babies are just awesome, congrats man.

So they have started to molt into 3i and look a bit more like their moms and dads.

So what was the result from this brood ? How many survived ? I was told Flat Rocks slings are hard to raise up and the mortality is high.