Bad news!

D: My Edvin died yesterday morning.

I guess I saw it coming. He'd been a bit lethargic and droopy for a couple of days. I had hope, because when disturbed he would pick up his tail and move away... but as soon as he stopped moving again, he let his tail fall flat. Went into my room yesterday to find him laying sprawled out on his side.

I think I'm going to just put him in a jar of alcohol.

Might as well get another tropics scorpion, since I have all the stuff. Just don't know what kind yet.

Sorry for your loss

isnt it normal for scorpions not to have their tails up all the time? my DH and cavi are down but curved to the side a lot especially when inside his cave.

Or was it straight flat back?
How can you tell if a scorpion is lethargic? they arent constantly moving around and when they do, they arent always in a hurry to move around lol

Sorry for the questions prolly the last things you want.

What kind of scorpion was it, I can recommend several types.

He was an emperor scorpion. =)

And, yes, I meant his tail was flat out. And I could tell he was lethargic, because he always got all riled up and pissy when I misted his tank, but recently he didn't seem to care...

when i used to mist my tank especially near where the pothos plant was (my cavi would hide under ) my cavi would never move and I always feared the worse but now that I removed the heat pad from that side hes in his hide burrowing like crazy I can hear him and see him lol

sorry for your loss, gonna replace??

Sorry to hear that we recently lost one of ours to a bad moly poor little guy, and was actually quite sad when our first ever scorpion died, he was an emp and dies from old age that's the problem you get when buying adults you never know how old they are, I would get another emp ( or 4 lol) get a load of juvi's and have a communal setup that's our plan now as we can't get hold of an adult male emp for our female

That sucks though, it does.

My first scorpion to ever die was an A. Austrlais and it was DOA. Then I got a Death Stalker which had mycosis when I had originally gotten her from a store. Those are my only two losses ever, and it sucked both times.

whoa you got a death stalker at a local store in the US??

If only we could have any species in the buthide family, they really don't make it easy in the uk

I'll see what I can find. I might get a couple more emperors. =) Or perhaps try something new.

Or both lol that's what I did hehehe ended up with loads of different stuff

Sorry to hear that. It sucks losing a scorp.

Roblicious wrote:

whoa you got a death stalker at a local store in the US??

Yes and the worst part about it is it was my first scorpion. It was labeled wrong, as a dune scorpion.

I found out once I started getting into scorpions.

Ecstasy wrote:

It was labeled wrong, as a dune scorpion.

This is my worry with a lot of pet stores selling scorpions. Eight times out of ten you've got nothing to worry about but because most don't specialize in inverts, they often mistake one species for another. My AFS was sold to me as a Red Claw. Obviously this was before I started properly getting to know scorpions.