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Hey guys i was woundering where do you buy scorpion antivenom specificly deathstalker and african thicktails?also how do you get the perments to buy it.any info would be helpfull.
Zach

I am not sure about deathstalkers, but the company that makes SAIMR polyvent for snakes makes an AV for parabuthus.....

Parabuthus:

SAMIR Scorpion Antivenom
Refined Equine Antiscorpion Serum globulins

Leiurus:

Pasteur L.A.B.S. Antiscorpion Venom Serum

There are about 22 scorpion antivenoms.

SAVP carries Parabuthus in 5 ml, and Leiurus quinquestriatus is made by about 4 companies. Androctonus is made by one or two companies. A sting is very painful, but unless your a child, or very old, even Lq would have a hard time dropping a healthy human. When I milked um I only got about a mig or two, and for my weight 15-18 migs would appear as a LD. You'll need USDA and FDA permits to get it though, just like snakes, which takes some work. Keep your hands out of the cage and you'll be just fine, or go through the goverment paperwork. I would help you get the paperwork, but after 4 years of trying to help people with FDA and USDA permits, my results with helping those was not great. Maybe that was my fault though, I'll blame no one for that. I'm just to busy at this point, best of luck Zach. Tim Friede

well since am 14 i cant get perments.i was thinking abot gtting one a year or two down the road.

np

this is the most venomous thing i have ever owned but my mom and dad killed her.

about your black widow (assuming that's what that is) being killed...i have an interesting story involving black widows...

When I was about 9, my parents and I found a female widow with a HUGE egg sac in our garage. My neighbor, being an avid nature freak, helped me collect it and it's egg sac into a jar. There was a saran wrap covering over the jar, held in place by a rubber band. Well, at some point that night, I decided to take a peek at my new pet, and must have not securely fastened the saran wrap back in place. When I came back from school the next afternoon, my dad had an interesting story for me.
Apparently, he came home at lunch, and after eating, decided to take a peek at my new pet. When he walked in my room, he saw litteraly THOUSANDS of baby black widows crawling up the curtains, walls, etc. He tried vacuuming them up, but they just crawled right back out, eventually he got all that he could see, and gave up. I didn't sleep in my room that night, but started sleeping there the next night. Never saw a single widow in my room again, though we lived in that house for another 5 years. Needless to say, I don't keep ANY animals in jars with saran wrap as a cover anymore

AP

yes it was a black widow.the worst thing that about it being killed was that i was asleep when they did it and theywere expecting me to be calm about it.funny story

i just use the saran wrap as a extra precoution