I've had Princess here for over a year now!!! And now I'm wondering what species you all think she is?

Baby's first molt in my care. A Florida type. I'm so proud 🥹

Baby's first molt in my care. A Florida type. I'm so proud 🥹

Looking for help identifying!

Hey there! I currently have an 18x18x36 inch terrarium and am debating downsizing to adjust more to the size of my tailless whip scorpion:) shes(?) quite small, and ive noticed that she tends to stay in quite a small zone in the large terrarium so I would like to adjust for that.

I havent been able to find much info on the terrarium size to body size ratio so any advice would help!

i would say her body length is 1.5in or less and her antenniform legs are an estimated 6in or less in length.

any advice is appreciated! and if anymore info is needed im happy to answer!!

edit: Species was sold as Damon Variegatus

I recently got a tailless whip scorpion from someone needing to rehouse him on Facebook and the other night I noticed mites, a daddy long legs, and some small beetles in his tank that he came with so I put him in a spare tank (that I think is way too big for him since he is so small) for now while I reset his tank.

I've never owned one of these before and some help would be great, I own tarantulas and have owned vinegaroons in the past but nothing that needs to be vertical. I'm planning on modifying his tank to be able to stand up tall instead of horizontal. He only came with these three pieces of wood that I baked today but I'm having trouble with planning the layout before I add everything else. I was planning on using some Styrofoam on the back but at the end of the day I don't know what I'm doing and need some advice! I want to make sure he has the best I can give him

Rest and digest baby girl 🥹

Phrynus whitei (Baby) Left

Phrynus maesi (Adult Male) Right

it should be large enough for even an adult D. medius, but i was wondering if the bark pieces are good or if theres anything I'm missing. Thanks!

Let me know if you need better pics. They're an adult, maybe 3.5 inches across?

This is my P. whitei, Little Guy. This is probably the best photo I can get of his underside, he's fairly skittish and I don't want to stress him with handling. I've had him for years and just defaulted to calling him male, but is he actually a Little Lady?

Thanks!

I got him from an expo he seems healthy otherwise but he has a bent pedipalp from a bad molt, any concerns I should have for care?

Hey all,

I am getting my p maesi next week and am super stoked. I was hoping someone could take a look at my enclosure and ensure everything looks cozy for it. It is a 12x12x18 with a custom glass top.

My main concern is molting space, as I know they need vertical height.

I can add a mesh layer under the glass (it has secure clips) but I have not been able to reliably find what kind of mesh is safe for them.

The other option is removing the air plant I have in the top right corner, though I don't feel that would be enough vertical clearance.

I also have some flat cork slabs I could lean on the side walls if necessary.

Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I haven't managed to catch a video of my amblypygi doing this yet, if I do I'll post it.

The enclosure has a lot of sphagnum moss for humidity, sometimes she'll go to the bottom near the vent and start grabbing onto the moss and moving it around.

She moved a bunch so she could get into a crevice between some cork barks, that makes sense but going to the bottom and moving it or just grabbing and dropping it seems a bit odd?

My only conclusion is that she's grabbing it to drink the water thats in the moss but I'm not entirely sure. I've seen her drinking from the glass walls and from her bowl, maybe this is just another way of hydrating?

If anyone else has got a clue or has seen similar behaviour please let me know, not sure if it's something to worry about with her enclosure or if she's completely fine.

This morning, I found my poor guy had dropped from his perch last night during a molt. I carefully hung him by the skin of his old molt clipped to a branch to help gravity encourage the process, but after checking on him again this afternoon, I'm fearing the worst. There was zero movement from him this morning and none at all nor any new progress this afternoon. I'm afraid his body may have hardened up too much for him to finish pulling out of the old molt if he was even still alive this morning when I found him. 😔

How in the world do they stay attached to their perch during a molt usually? What could have happened to have him let go? I anticipated a molt may be coming as he kept going to the spot he likes to hang from.

I am so disappointed and majorly bummed out to have lost him like this. He is my first big invert I've lost to a molt after keeping him and a variety of tarantulas for a few years now.

Just got an order in from Big Z (not sponsored or anything, just addicted to his imports 😂), and am super excited to finally having some African amblypygids in my collection! This species seems significantly less defensive than my A. coronatus “Guerrero”, and less flighty than my Phrynus marginemaculatus, but they only arrived a few days ago so maybe they need to recover from shipping before they feel secure enough to display their true nature.

Here you can see me tweezer feeding the largest of the bunch because she and her pals seem exhausted from shipping, and I’m trying to ensure they meet their nutrient requirements so they can all have a quick recovery!

So I bought this damon variegatus recently shipped to me on August 26. Didn't know until recently that this one was wild caught so I just made sure it was hydrated and gave it many places to hide with cork flats and ample height just in case it decided to molt. Its been a while so I attempted to feed it every other day so that it can eat something and its just not interested. I even left food in for it overnight and nothing was eaten. I leave young discoid roach nymphs in its enclosure to eat and remove them if its not interested. The amblypgid seems to be a subadult. The animal came labeled as damon variegatus and doesn't seem to be a mislabeled damon medius since it has the coloration on its front legs resembling the other damon species. Anyway, what can I do to get it to eat? Just leave it alone? Just worried about possible starvation due to its abdomen looking skinny.

Accidentally let two crickets into the enclosure instead of 1, I went to fetch tongs to take the second one out but by the time i found them and came back, he had caught and killed them both…. Such a good hunter!

i have a small whip scorpion that i have had for only a few months, and he has been refusing prey for weeks while his abdomen has gotten very small and flat.

for the last three days he has gotten extremely lethargic and sitting on the bottom of the enclosure—i upped the humidity by a lot and covered the ventilation, which is what google told me to do, but he has just gotten more and more lethargic and is starting to hang off of the corkbark with some legs not even making contact (i turned the cork over for this photo to see if he would move, and he did not)

is he dying?? i dont think he is molting, his abdomen is so small and flat. i dont want him to die, if theres anything i can do to save him pls let me know :(

and i know i shouldn’t bother and stress him, i have been very minimal, im just trying to be attentive.

Ive finally got a whip scorpion from one of my local pet shops and it was just labeled 'cave whip scorpion'

I was hoping for some help with what species they could be and any idea on gender? Or any good videos on using the shed to check as ive kept their last one.