Nice shots!
I grew up with them all over the property and would play with them. I'd poke at them and piss them off till they are spitting mad. Also had a collection of them in an old aquarium outside for a while and kept adding to it as I found them. They ate each other. Ahh good times. I don't see them much this part of the north, it isn't quite dry and warm enough. I have only seen a handful in the past 10 years. Have to say I miss having them around.
That sounds like fun. We used to catch camel spiders in Iraq and have them fight each other in an old aquarium.