DVirginiana
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2015
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- 37
Last year I picked up my first tarantula to celebrate completing my fieldwork for my graduate degree; that quickly morphed into two tarantulas, a wolf spider, and six of her young that I have been raising up. I've enjoyed keeping millipedes in the past, and just really love inverts in general.
Anyway, I'm about to defend my thesis and graduate, so I've been contemplating getting a scorpion to celebrate. I was thinking about an emperor scorpion because they look impressive and have pretty mild venom, but I wanted to post on here and ask for suggestions just in case the rumors are wrong and those aren't good beginner scorpions! (By the way I've done a bit of research on keeping them, and I have a reptile room with 80 ambient temp and years of experience monitoring humidity for sensitive tropical frogs, so I'm confident I can get the husbandry correct)
I'm open to suggestions if you guys don't think this is a good beginner species, or if someone with my level of experience should stay away from scorpions altogether.
Anyway, I'm about to defend my thesis and graduate, so I've been contemplating getting a scorpion to celebrate. I was thinking about an emperor scorpion because they look impressive and have pretty mild venom, but I wanted to post on here and ask for suggestions just in case the rumors are wrong and those aren't good beginner scorpions! (By the way I've done a bit of research on keeping them, and I have a reptile room with 80 ambient temp and years of experience monitoring humidity for sensitive tropical frogs, so I'm confident I can get the husbandry correct)
I'm open to suggestions if you guys don't think this is a good beginner species, or if someone with my level of experience should stay away from scorpions altogether.