Smeringurus mesaensis

Malhavoc's · Sep 14, 2004

I caught a dune scoprion [Smeringurus mesaensis] gave it a hide which it prometly and immediatly burried under [using potting soil moistend to support a borruw but will let it dry out now that he has established one] the entrance isnt sealed and he [most likely male] has dissapeared into its depths but doesnt come out at night to feed? whats the deal? lol hes been in his hole for a few days now should I be worried?

biznacho · Sep 14, 2004

Mine stayed burried for over 3 months. It molted. I'm told they can stay under for a very long time with no harmful side effects. You could always try diggin it up, but as long it seems OK I wouldn't

biznacho

Malhavoc's · Sep 14, 2004

I'm pretty sure its fine. as I see it occasionly using a flash light shinning it down the burrow. but its wc and rather skinny I jsut dont want it to exhaust itself burrowing

and if it does recluse so much I think I may sell it.. I want something a bit more active
btw I'm keeping it at about 80f most websites I've seen recomend 90. but he seems to have lost none of his speed when I placed him in his now permament home.. lol

pandinus · Sep 14, 2004

what color morph is it? solid yellow, or transparent yellow?

Malhavoc's · Sep 14, 2004

can you provide pix of both? cuss I have no clue lol. I do know that it is alot lighter then any of them that I've seen. so I would say transparent yellow.. heck sometimes it gives off an almost green look lol.

pandinus · Sep 14, 2004

this or this

Malhavoc's · Sep 14, 2004

I think its closer to the second one.. nbot as dark as the first..

pandinus · Sep 14, 2004

they almost look like ghosts, they are so transparent

buthidae46290 · Sep 15, 2004

The picture that they have on goldenpheonixexotica.com is even more ghost-like. http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/smesa.jpg

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

that pretty much him there

with a crappy webcam and crappy lighting here is my attempt at photoing him lol. he seems alot darker in the pix then he does to the eye. wierd.

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

I also dont think he is full grown.. hes about 1.75-2"max

buthidae46290 · Sep 15, 2004

I ordered one off that site recently along with C. vitattus and exilcauda. They havent arrived yet but I hope mine is that coloration.

pandinus · Sep 15, 2004

you are sooo lucky!!! you caught it? where? i thought they only lived in sand dunes.

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

on a mountain

If you want I can go out again and try and find more to sell ya? lol
I've found a total of 3 or 4 species around here.
Actualy I was follwoing a bike path around the mtn and found a choppedu p tree [this is strangly the usual place I find scorpions] you know where the trunk is cut into sections and is flat on either side.. well I found if its laying on a flat side theirs usualy a scorpion underneath so I flipped it [after flipping alot bigger things finding nothing-exhasted sigh lol-] andthere was two of them. I think it was a female and this guy. The female darted I snatched at it with a lid to cover it only to find it not there.. lifted up my boot and noticed the male was undeer neath my foot and tried to make a mad dash before I grabbed him. For the record the ground was very dry dust/sand mix.

buthidae46290 · Sep 15, 2004

Malhavoc's said:
I also dont think he is full grown.. hes about 1.75-2"max

Yeah their supposed to get up to 4 inches.

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

Are they always so recluse though? I mean I put this guy in his enclosure burrows and dissapears.. doesnt come up at night or anything lol.. I just dug him up for a photo shoot. put him in a deli cup and for the heck of it put am oth in there [and he actualy ate!!]
I keep him on 4 inch peat with a piece of flat bark partly burried for him to excavate his burrow under, at about 80 f

pandinus · Sep 15, 2004

the scorp in that pic is no smeringus, it looks like a vaejovis coahuilae

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

Also this lil one is a fiesty lil son of a <edited> either running faster then I can keep up or stinging like amd repediatly.. I've housed scorps before and hes the only one I've seen that stings so many times and so quickly.. I think if he were to tag me it would be 4 or 5 times before I could pull away lol.

Malhavoc's · Sep 15, 2004

pandinus said:
the scorp in that pic is no smeringus, it looks like a vaejovis coahuilae

Really?
I'm not very good at identification. I go by picture reference and the pictures that best match him were the dune scorps.
His tail seems alot thinner then 'vaejovis coahuilae' I believe thats why I ruled it out in the first place.

pandinus · Sep 15, 2004

maybe i just saw the pics wrong, but answer these

does it have:
red tipped claws
a somewhat fat tail
a triangle notch on the 5th metasomal segment
a sort of striped tail?

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