Hi all we have some scorpio maurus coming soon and just wondered if they need a water bowl at all? im guessing not but would like clarification if poss...thank you

I think all animals, including any scorpion, should have access to a waterdish! It wouldn't harm it anyway

I have a buddy with one of these, gorgeous creatures to watch, and he does supply it with a water dish. He's using a tiny "medicine" size tupperware tub (about 2" wide).

Other than that, I am jealous of your incoming addition!

I've not put one on with our desert hairy as I was advised not to should I? I was told that most desert species are adapted so that they get all the fluids they need from their food is this wrong??

If I might add, I used to own two of these a couple of years ago and I did supply them with water dish... And they are NOT communal! Put them in the same enclosure to a start and they headed straight for eachother, claws snapping and tails jabbing

Think it was something to do with humidity maybe I dunno well yeah a tiny dish won't hurt I will get one... Also just to clarify Scorpio mauris are not communal??? We have been sold 3 as a communal species aaaaaah!!!

They are NOT!!! The most hostile specie I have ever kept, no doubt! They wont last one night together, so don't do it!

And ofcorse the humidity must be right, but a small waterdish, wont do a difference!

Love Yr avatar pic btw

Seriously everyone I've asked and everywhere I've looked says they are communal I'm really worried now as got 3 coming gonna have to get 3 tanks now lol

Hm, that's odd? mine wasn't! Just checked up on an article in an issue of "exotic insects", and they allso states that it isn't advisable!

Btw, the article also says they are illegal to keep in britain aswell unless you got that permit (don't remember what it's called now)?

But who cares

Are you sure we are talking about the same species?? Scorpio maurus/ Israeli gold scorpion!?!?!
The only species illegal I'm the uk is all the buthidae species and hemioscorpiidae- hemiscorpius lepturus

Yes, scorpio maurus (palmatus)! It says that because of some book by a guy named "keegan" thay were mixed up with buthus Occitanus and winded up on that illegal list in britain (which was obviousely a mistake bacause they are not really venoumus)... I'm just quoting right now

Well I just checked and they come under the Scorpionidae species and deffo legal in uk but wether they are communal or not is another matter, as you have kept them you know they are not, was they siblings or was they bought individually?

Okay, found another number of the magazine (no. 48 if any danish member wanna check) where scorpio maurus is also mentioned, it says:

Scorpio maurus is on the "Dangerous Animal Act" list in britain. The reason for this is that it has been refered to as "a scorpion of medical importance" in Hugh Keegans book "Scorpions of Medical Importance" (1980) which britain has based their DAA law on. The article that Hugh Keegan bases his knowledge upon is about both Scorpion Maurus and Buthus Occitanus and he has somehow gotten the facts of the two VERY DIFFERENT scorpions mixed, as some of the "facts" about Scorpio Maurus in his book actually is fitting for Buthus Occitanus.

This a (near) direct quote from danish to english..