mixing scorps

Subject: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:11 pm

i no this is probely playing with fire

but wat do u lot think on mixing scorps .e.g.
a red claw emps and a normal emps

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:18 pm

I can't imagine it's any different than our discussion last year about housing C. exilicauda and C. sculpturatus. I'll try and find it to use as a basis for comparison. wow, I'm having deja-vu

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:25 pm

Eddy, Mike, I can't find it - we did have that discussion here, right? I remember it being a few pages long

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:26 pm

lol i have not been on this forum long so i would not no

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:45 pm

maybe it was on a different forum but the 4th and 5th entries on this thread might help. I don't see much of a problem with it. it had to have been on this forum - it was either Mike or Eddy that brought it up - dammit, I wish I could find the thread.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 6:56 pm

Generally it's not recommended. Yeah, some people haven't had problems, but others have -- why risk it?

On a side note, I seem to hear fewer problems with emps and H. spinifer, or different Heterometrus species, than I do with P. imperator and P. cavimanus.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 7:04 pm

Mr. Mordax wrote:: On a side note, I seem to hear fewer problems with emps and H. spinifer, or different Heterometrus species, than I do with P. imperator and P. cavimanus.

same story with M. martensii and L. mucronatus

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/8/2009, 8:30 pm

I've seen enough debate on both sides to say it isn't easy to keep P cav commnally let alone with another species. For mixed scorp setups I'd recommend (to someone with experience), P imp and H spin (heard they do pretty well together as long as it's a huge tank) and I've heard of certain bark scorpions tolerating eachother.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/9/2009, 10:10 pm

It really all depends on the scorpions. Most red claws don't do good with other species. But P. imps and Het species usually do fine.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/9/2009, 10:43 pm

I tried it, and didn't keep them together for more than 5 minutes, P. Cavimanus is alot more aggressive than the emperors. He went where they were hiding and fought my 3 emperors, kicked them out, and took over the hide they all share.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/9/2009, 10:45 pm

Napoleon complex much?

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/12/2009, 1:28 pm

Pandinus cavimanus IS a bully of the scorpion "tropical" world in my experience.
Maybe I had a super agressive female but she wouldnt even like misting with the pouring and would attack the mist! She would also jump to try to get me when I would be spot cleaning her tank. She would also not be cupped into something! She would BRACE so I always had to "tail" her and with that I HAD to use the long soft tongs because she would reach up and grab the tongs!
RIP my little fire girl!

So a pandinus cavimanus and the class clown, gentle "giant" Pandinus imperator...no way!

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/12/2009, 1:40 pm

sounds like its just better to keep them on there own then apart from whem your breeding them!?

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/12/2009, 2:02 pm

Yep. I had a pair and wasn't going to risk it until they were both mature and ready to breed.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/12/2009, 4:05 pm

think thats how i'm going to do it, have them all separet till its breeding time, better to be safe then sorry!

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/29/2009, 12:14 am

I read its not recomended to keep 2 p.cavs together.

Subject: Re: mixing scorps 3/29/2009, 6:24 pm

yeh thanx i was just wandering what u boys and girles thort ... the only coumanal i have is my 3 emp and soon 6

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