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@jtktomb8598 it wasn't collected, it was born in captivity and bred by me.

@@jtktomb8598 I am u/deathvalleyherper. If you didn't believe me.

@@Deathvalleyherper Yeah I know I'm just collecting information for a possible publication on scorpion deformities :) Thank for the info, if you have other records I'm interested !

@jtktomb8598 well I don't have records, like physical ones. But I do remember where I got his parents from. If you ever find yourself in Beatty Nevada, I can take you on a field collecting expedition.

@@Deathvalleyherper If I ever go back to the US I'd love too, the south western desert are amazing and I was lucky to visit there once. Could you drop the coordinates for the approximate collection point ? Or a location name ? But yeah since it's captive bred it's no as important as with a wild specimen.

That isn't his permanent habitat it was just an enclosure I put together so he could have outside time and I could practice hook technique. I didn't have a UVB light for his actual enclosure so every couple of days I would take him outside for a couple of hours, to this big round water tank that I'd put sand and some stuff for him to explore during his outside time. He could have easily escaped this container if I had left him unsupervised, which would have been bad since the tank is in my front yard and unfenced. But he really did enjoy crawling over everything in there. And I missed filming it but he caught a lizard I'd put in there for him, since he wouldn't eat in his normal enclosure. A few weeks after filming this I released him back into the wild. I had obtained the snake when I was called to remove him from a lady's back porch in my home town of Beatty Nevada.

Sounds like you do right by the animals in your care. Good on you.

No he didn't make it. Ghost Sniper has more breeding though. It turns out that metasomal divergence which is the term he uses for this condition makes it very difficult for the scorpion to subdue its prey, owing to the fact that the brain is wired backwards from the body. Meaning that when the brain tells the tail to go left the right tail moves left and the left one moves right making the two in constant conflict of getting in the way of eachother because there is one brain and two dorsal nerve ganglia. Imagine how difficult it would be to survive with two spinal cords that made each of your hands do the opposite of what you were trying to accomplish.