Anyone know anything about vinegaroons?

[EntoStentor]

I wanna get a vinegaroon can anybody help me?

List of things I know:

Can live in at least a 10 gallon

Nonvenomous but can pinch and spray acetic acid

They eat a lot more than scorpions or spiders of the same size and are more active

Don't hide as much as other inverts

And that's about all I know.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

I wanna get a vinegaroon can anybody help me?

List of things I know:

Can live in at least a 10 gallon

Nonvenomous but can pinch and spray acetic acid

They eat a lot more than scorpions or spiders of the same size and are more active

Don't hide as much as other inverts

And that's about all I know.

Not terribly difficult to keep, their bite can scar, and they tame easily, also can be escape artists

Cowturtle

 

[krichardson]

Do a search on them,someone made a thread about them and other related creatures sometime last year.

 

[EntoStentor]

Not terribly difficult to keep, their bite can scar, and they tame easily, also can be escape artists

Cowturtle

what do you mean by bite? acid spray? pinch? or actually biting with the mouthparts? I think the mouthparts are quite powerful, they depend on them way more than scorpions and such.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

what do you mean by bite? acid spray? pinch? or actually biting with the mouthparts? I think the mouthparts are quite powerful, they depend on them way more than scorpions and such.

Jaws , apparently the bites can scar, although truth be told I don't know anyone who's actually gotten one mad enough to be bitten, as they are kind of laid back

 

[EntoStentor]

More stuff I've dug up:


Okay, so apparently they bite SUPER hard. They're also really armored, much more so than scorpions and amblypigids. Once they have a prey item they immediately regurgitate the digestive fluids (all arachnids do this, but most do it after prey is subdued).

 

[JK47]

Jaws , apparently the bites can scar, although truth be told I don't know anyone who's actually gotten one mad enough to be bitten, as they are kind of laid back

Yes you do, I have. My father had been in the past as well. When I was a kid I spent my summers in the Mojave desert (Victorville, CA) and those little bastards are everywhere. I got bit putting my shoe on. I still check my shoes to this day and we have nothing even close to those here. Those little dark yellow scorpions are all over the place too. They get stuck in the sink/tub and can’t get out.

Stung like hell and I threw up for the better part of a couple days. You won’t hold food down for a couple days at a minimum. I couldn’t anyway.

 

[EntoStentor]

Are you sure it wasn't a scorpion? Doesn't sound like even a vinegaroon bite would do that much damage.

 

[JK47]

Are you sure it wasn't a scorpion? Doesn't sound like even a vinegaroon bite would do that much damage.

Yep. I was pretty young but know it was a vinegaroon. I can’t speak to others reactions but mine was straight visceral.. that’s all I remember is getting sick pretty bad and not being able to stomach food for a few days.

 

[Cowturtle]

Really simple to care for I just have them in about a 5 gallon tank with a water dish I make sure is filled once a week.

I've been pinched but it didn't even break the skin.