asian forest scorpion.[question]

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everything going ok?

also,there is still one scorpling staying at its mum back..
she loves her mum pretty much huh?

Yes, everything is ok. They've made it to second instar.

Give them a few more days to harden up, and then you can start feeding them (and separating them if you so choose).

Interesting color telson she has..

why?the colour of telson seems to be unusual?

Still better than nothing. She was comfortable enough to not eat many young, and they made it to second instar.

Junshern, you're pretty much out of the woods now. Do you have a blacklight? If you do, you'll know the babies are ready for food when they glow under it (if they're still too soft, they won't glow).

It's you're choice to A) keep them with mom, B) put them together in a different enclosure, or C) keep them all in separate enclosures.

A is the easiest, A and B both have some risk of cannibalism, and C is the most difficult but it's the best for monitoring the health of every scorpling.

Connie, in Malaysia we don't use heat light
From my experience, Option A and B is very risky of them being cannibalize
Option C is the best as we can ensure each of them have eaten
Usually u guys keep them communally?

erm...i made the option C..
yea,the glow under uv light,i dropped some crickets drumstick into the communal tank..this seems to be a problem or not?

another question,do they really hate lights?

but in my area,crickets usually sold in big sizes..
so i chop the head of cricket,then let them share the particular piece of food?[communal tank]

headcrush the crickets, so they can't bite, they just sorta... wiggle around. that's what I did with my early instars, they seem more attracted to half dead cricket than completely dead ones.

will they share on a piece of food?

yep.

I went for option B for my emps and H. longimanus -- had a few cannibalisms. I went for option C for my U. mordax and like being able to check on each scorpion and monitor their progress.

Cricket drumsticks should be ok. I'd try headcrushing a cricket and offering that.

Scorpions are nocturnal and these are burrowing species, so they tend to avoid light. If there's too much they'll just hide or dig out a burrow.

guys,this is my another sinifer.
do ya think this a male or female?
just wanna confirm which tank should i put it into.

Well you should change subtract and put that scorpion in isolation.. it got a seriously mite infection..

it was the sand,wasnt it

yep

ok,guys,it was really mites.
i chaged the substrate,gave it a slight bath.
what else more i can do?
erm..the mites still visible by now..

Put it in an isolated container with no substrate (just paper towels) and a water dish.

Find some predatory mites (little specks that run around, either in other tanks or outside) and put them in with it.

It's a female, by the way.

can i cure her by using isolated container only?i mean without the predatory mites..
also,can someone provide a little info about how the predatory mite looks or what...

predatory mites, they are like the bad mites but a bit larger, and they MOVE, unlike the parasitic species which clamp onto a feeding spot and don't move. they feed on the bad mites.