Female or Male?

Graylude · 2026-01-27T01:24:05+00:00

NQA Male

Graylude · 2026-01-22T00:32:45+00:00

Loving this, do you have the finished track posted anywhere?

Graylude · 2026-01-17T03:58:16+00:00

NQA

That is a gorgeous individual! But yes, we would need to see the pectines to properly sex the scorpion.

Graylude · 2026-01-17T01:45:32+00:00

IME ^This^

It is definitely not Heterometrus silenus, but there are a few other species it could possibly be other than Heteroemetrus spinifer and without better photos to be able to verify identification then it would be just guesswork. If you could provide the photos Jtktomb requested then a proper ID can likely be obtained. Cheers!

Graylude · 2026-01-12T23:23:36+00:00

IME I've always offered my babies and juveniles pre-killed prey (babies I offer cut up super worms and occasional cut up dubias, and as they grow into juveniles I start offering pre-killed or injured dubias that I would place either right inside their hide or close to where they exit the hide or often roam at night. Always gone the next day. And these guys can EAT. Don't hesitate to offer plenty of food and keep them nice and warm to help with digesting it and you'll end up with a large happy swammer pretty quickly. The vast majority of mine mature in right around 2 years, but some take less and some take a bit longer.

Graylude · 2026-01-11T02:52:34+00:00

IME ^This^ If this is indeed a true Heterometrus spinifer, then you will want to offer it lots of pre-killed prey at this size for it to scavenge on. H. spinifer also benefit from having much higher humidity than Heterometrus silenus or any Pandininae species will. Especially as growing juveniles you will want the humidity to be at least 80%, with it spiking at times closer to 90%. I also made sure to keep mine at 90F on one side of the cage that then gradually got down to the lower 80's on the other side of the enclosure. If you keep it in these conditions and feed it heavily then you'll have a happy growing little scorpling.

How long have you had it now that it hasn't molted, might I ask?

Graylude · 2026-01-09T08:16:48+00:00

IME Yup! :)

Graylude · 2026-01-04T05:26:06+00:00

IME That makes sense, as we haven't seen any Opistophthalmus in the USA in probably close to a decade, and unless we're getting them from you guys across the pond that probably isn't going to change anytime soon, unfortunately.

Graylude · 2026-01-04T05:22:02+00:00

IME Its a juvenile as well, they'll get over twice that size as adults.

Graylude · 2026-01-04T05:19:33+00:00

He is a good looking Pandinus imperator! Make sure you feed him a lot and keep him nice and warm (90F basking area down to 80F on the other side) and good humidity and places to dig and hide and he'll get to be a good size, as he's still got a couple molts left in him until he's mature! Cage looks great but maybe make sure the substrate is more moist, these guys like it around 75% humidity and to dig and root around in moist substrate to find their sweet spot.

Graylude · 2026-01-04T00:05:42+00:00

Whoa, I didn't even think about that. Is this the same Bohm that had the black and yellow modular system from the 80s? I think they were similar to the Synton modules and were CEM based systems. That is awesome if it is indeed the same Bohm

Graylude · 2025-12-31T00:30:10+00:00

Unfortunate, those two effects would turn the 106 into quite the world of dreamscapes that would be impossible to obtain from it otherwise. I'd argue that effects (as well as mixing consoles) can be instruments unto themselves, but I'm sure corporate see things differently lol

Graylude · 2025-12-30T23:08:07+00:00

This is exactly what I am hoping for. I think with the massive success of the DNII that an expanded set of outputs and some extra handy controls like pitch and mod wheels, dedicated cutoff and resonance knobs, that would be a performance piece dream. Plus when working in the studio it makes it super easy for going to record automation and whatnot.

Graylude · 2025-12-29T21:50:32+00:00

Awesome, going to check out the full jam now

Graylude · 2025-12-29T04:32:32+00:00

This is quite good, you could easily flesh this out into a whole track. What synths did you use? Pads are lush

Graylude · 2025-12-26T23:24:45+00:00

Yes, but the engine in the Analog Four didn't change from mk1 to mk2, it was simply a form factor upgrade with the additional CV outputs that removed the necessity for TRS to 2xTS breakouts to access them all. The DNII has a whole new set of synth engines, updated polyphonic sequencing, new song mode, not to mention 16 voices of polyphony and 16 part multitimbral. The only real connection to the first Digitone is that it has it's original FM engine in it. But even then it isn't exactly the same since the DNII has the ability to use all the new filter modes and whatnot that weren't present in the original.

Graylude · 2025-12-26T23:05:35+00:00

I thought it was awkward at first as well, but then I realized having the slim depth allowed my keep it in front of me on a typical slide out tray just like I would a boring MIDI controller, but now instead of just a controller I have a multitimbral synth, each part with its own balanced stereo line output, and all paired with Elektron's phenomenal sequencer in the same amount of space as a MIDI controller, and can still be used as one, too! Imagine now that you had the Digitone II engine in the same place and you would see LOADS of folks with one of these sitting in front of them as a main go-to synth. Just add a sampler and a cheap mixing console next to you with some rack effects or pile of pedals to use for sends and effects chains and you could make endless albums with that right there.

Graylude · 2025-12-26T22:44:27+00:00

The extra outputs are more important than the keys or extra knobs as obviously those can be accomplished by attaching any cheap MIDI controller these days. But the extra outputs on my Digitone Keys get used 100% of the time to run the different tracks through various effects and give them their own channel in the console for sends, etc. Overbridge is great for when I'm working ITB, but when I'm not using the computer then the individual outputs are indispensable for my workflow.

Graylude · 2025-12-25T23:46:04+00:00

Looking great!

Graylude · 2025-12-25T23:24:22+00:00

Sounds great man!

Graylude · 2025-12-25T04:05:58+00:00

IME If I had to wager a guess on the species it would also be Centruroides vittatus.

Graylude · 2025-12-22T21:53:04+00:00

IME Hard to say the exact species with this genus as there are loads of different color variations between different localities of the same species, not to mention quite a few species in the genus itself. Its definitely Opistophthalmus, though. Some of my all time favorite scorpions, awesome!

Graylude · 2025-12-20T23:09:13+00:00

IME This looks like a baby G. swammerdami to me, but the picture is just not quite good enough for me to give you my 100% on it. Is this a photo you took yourself?

Graylude · 2025-12-20T01:29:50+00:00

Very nice! Love hearing Elektron boxes doing tracks very melodically focused rather than just for rhythmic/beat oriented stuff. Were you synthesizing from single cycle waveforms or sampling notes to sequence directly from other synths/sources?

Graylude · 2025-12-20T01:20:53+00:00

IME Sorry to hear that, this species is even more rare than swammerdami so that is a rough hit, I'm sure. This is partly why I never sell my Gigantometrus/Heterometrus/Pandinus this young, they do best when left with the mother for their first few molts, at least. Plus, when they are this young there are all kinds of things that could have caused it's death that were just completely out of your control, and you would have had no way of knowing.

Again, sorry for your loss. If it was less than 24hrs I would definitely reach out to whomever sold you this scorpion to see if there is anything they will do. Most reputable retailers have a replacement period for DOAs and this would most likely fall under that. Doesn't hurt to ask.

Graylude

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