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3 guesses what lives here

Kokopelli

Kokopelli

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The person who gets it right is a genius(no cheating if you saw on facebook).
 
Praying mantis of some sort?
Roach of some sort?
Tarantula slings?
I can see, I think, where the occupants are but not well enough to be confidant of any of those guesses. Very nice cages for whatever it is though!
 
Alright alright,
I can say that some of you semi-guessed it, but not -really-.

These two setups hold "baby" Cave Whip Scorpions:

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They are non-venomous, extremely gentle invertebrates- as in, they do not sting or bite... they are extremely clingy to surfaces and fast as heck.

A good friend of mine managed to breed these odd thingies, and offered me a few... I couldn't really resist.

I think they are quite awesome! :)
 
Well, I almost got it but didn't reply again fast enough. Once people said scorpion and I started thinking that it's got to be something less commonly kept, whip scorpion did occur to me. But that's only because they had a few at the last reptile expo.
 
hypnoctopus said:
Wow, those are awesome-looking! How big are they now and how big do they get?
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They are miniature right now, having been errr "born", I guess, a month or so ago. So roughly 1-2 CM.

As adults they get up to roughly 10-14 CM... that's for the main body, not for the antennas that can go all over the place(those antennas have a nigh-endless amount of joints and at the tip, apparently, they have taste buds, quite insane).

WingedSweetheart said:
Aw my next guess was gonna be Scorpion. But not the kind I was thinking of.
How long do they live?
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No idea... I guess we'll find out as we go along. It seems to be anywhere between 5 to 10 years.
 
It really has very little in common with actual scorpions.
And yeah, I find them really easy to care for... proper housing, drop a couple of tiny roaches every few days... keep them a tad humid and you're done.
 
Very cool! I took loads of photographs of these in situ in Costa Rica when I went herping there. They were huge...easily as wide as the trunks they sat on.
 
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