The East African red-claw scorpions: heavy, dark, humid-forest animals with reddish pedipalps, more defensive than the emperor scorpion they are perpetually compared against, and milder in venom than the posture suggests.
They sting more readily and tolerate less than the emperor, while remaining firmly in the low-medical tier: respect, forceps habits, and realistic expectations rather than alarm. Burrow-friendly humid setups, cover, and cautious rather than confident communal keeping.
The paperwork is the genus's distinctive market fact: the emperor's CITES listing does not automatically extend here, and the group's genus boundaries have shifted enough that what applies to which name has changed over time. International purchases deserve a documents check. Domestically, East African supply keeps the genus available and priced below its famous comparison, for a keeping experience that is the emperor with the diplomacy removed.
The line on each tile: lowest ask per day.
Rarity BETA Rarity is supply, and only supply: the tier is how many sellers have ever carried a species, and for a single seller, how many separate listings. Price is not part of it, and neither is how recently it appeared. Tiers are given to tarantula species only.