You will be EXTREMELY lucky to find genuine CB S.Maurus Fuscus or Palmatus.

My first scorp was a Desert Hairy and never had any problems with it.

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I've seen some desery hairy scorps for sale recently on here. I've been looking up a few care sheets for them this afternoon and, as with anything i seem to look up lately, have got some conflicting advice!!

Does anyone have any care sheets they can reccommend as being accurate for the desert hairy's?

At the moment (as far as humidity goes anyway) ive seen pages suggesting everything from light daily misting up to no misting and no water bowl...plus everything in between

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Desert Hairy Scorpion Care Sheet

I keep mine at 85f and give them a slight mist once a week.

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Depends on the personallity of each scorp

so in all honesty you could pretty much get any species and it could be puppy dog tame and not need a massive amount of care and then you could find the same species and find it to be a viscious little sh!t lol

sorry if this has already been said cba to look doen in the thread

personally i reccommend a flat rock scorpion

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The 'yelloey' scorps are usually more aggressive and have nastier venom. A good beginer is the emp or a flat rock. If you insist on a yellow one go for the tri color.

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Thanks for all the options guys.

Think im going to go with either the Israeli Gold or Desert Hairy.

Had a quick read on the tri-colour but it says they spend most of their time in hiding and are rarely seen.

I appreciate the yellow ones are going to be more aggressive and have a nastier sting but i never plan on handling it and have respect for the animal...i think i am responsible enough to not make any silly mistakes therefore i am not going to let this side of it put me off.

The main thing i was after when starting this post was some ideas of a scorpion that was relatively easy to keep in regards to care requirements...i dont want something which would need a complex set up and do want something that is relatively easy to keep in captivity.

Have got plenty of care sheets to get reading through me thinks (this may change my decision again)...will keep you all posted.

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with my experience of desert hairys and eygptian golds. there always out and about. flat rocks, emps and tri colours prefer to hide.

also i though an israeli gold was one of the common names for a death stalker so be carefull

ans S.Maurus is an Eygptian Gold. and has been known to be mixed up with yellow fat tails in W/C deliveries.

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Gaz, i keep a good number of scorps. i started with Emperors, and to this day they're still among my favourites.

for docility, ease of care and size...i'd suggest a Tanzanian Long Claw (Iomachus politicus).
now, they are black, but have yellow legs. i know it's not exactly what you want, but mine is great. though i will caution that it's kinda fast when it wants to be!

another option, though they get a bit larger, is a flatrock scorpion (Hadogenes spp). the typical one, troglodytes, is brown, i believe, whereas the one i have, apparently called "amber banded flatrock" (bicolor, though it was sold to me as troglodytes) is a lovely blue-black with yellow bands in horizontal stripes across its back. again, very docile, and quite a cool looking scorp.

i've managed to find a few yellow species, though all are feisty (actually i've not met a scorpion that ISN'T feisty to some degree! including emps).
i have Vaejovis spinigerus (stripetail) scorplings, a possible Hadrurus arizonensis (desert hairy), who is more scared of me than me of it
...i only say possible because there's a chance it's a H spadix.
there's also the Smeringus mesaensis (Dune scorpion), which i didn't buy at the time, maybe later.

the fact is, you aren't going to get stung or hurt if you don't antagonise the animal. scorpions can't climb vertical glass or even plastic...so escaping is unlikely.
there are loads of choices, from the black Asian varieties and Imperators to the yellow desert species. i even have some reddish and brown scorps!
the brown ones are proper cute, though pet holes.
all of them have attitude, all can pinch or sting...and all are slightly unpredictable, compared to other arachnids (excepting Tailless whipscorpions who are way more unpredictable!!!)

have a look at Supplier and breeder of insects and arachnids in the UK for some unusual species, and also check TheSpiderShop:- - Suppliers of Arachnids and other quality Invertebrates and Tarantula-shop.com as they sometimes have some species as well.

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most scorps hide, including my desert hairy, who is always under it's cork bark. in the wild, they dig deep burrows to get away from the heat, so don't expect to see it.
Israeli golds are usually wild-caught adults with only a few months left to live, so don't expect any sort of life-span!

desert hairy is VERY easy to care for. it just likes it dry and a cricket tossed in every week or so
nice species, nice looking too.

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I did read this on one site and got me a little worried. I dont think this is the case mind, according to all other sites i've looked at the Israeli Gold is just the common name for Scorpio maurus palmatus.

I believe the confusion comes in as the Deathstalker (Ive read the scientific name is Leiurus quinquestriatus) does have the common name of Israeli Desert Scorpion. So very similar

Thanks for those links Corpselight, top one was good...saw a couple of nice 'uns on there. Havn't had chance to do any research on any of them yet mind so something to keep me busy this weekend!! Did see he was able to get jumping spider as well...i know NOTHING about these but got me interested as i was fascinated by them on a TV programme i saw recently

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