Feeding Emperor Scorpions "Death Grips"

Few of my Pandinus imperators feeding.
Yes, the "predatory mites" seen around the substrate are an eyesore. Even though they pose no harm to the adult emps in the vid. I'll also do a fresh substrate change for them every 6 months.

Regarding to the different types of mites, you may wish to check out the link below or search "mites" in this forum.
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t6296-difference-between-harmful-mites-and-ne...

Forest scorpion caresheet:
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t7735-raising-forest-scorpions

I can feel the love!

Nice and healthy scorps

Wont they take the blatta lateralis? I find that some scorps are too lazy to take them because they are so fast Or not interested in them at all :S

how big is yours? i noticed the white stinger not an adult yet?

Kweegwin wrote:

I can feel the love!

Scorpeace wrote:

Nice and healthy scorps
Wont they take the blatta lateralis? I find that some scorps are too lazy to take them because they are so fast Or not interested in them at all :S

This is an occasional "FATTY treat" for them. Their usual diet are:
85% B.Lateralis roach,
10% Crickets
5% Mealworm

Roblicious wrote:

how big is yours? i noticed the white stinger not an adult yet?

Its bad lightings.. it is not white but "orangey" for one of the 6i female.
I've a few adult pairs (in separate breeding enclosures), what is featured in this vid is one 7i male and two 6i female. In order of their appearance, the first and last emp are females.

That was great......thanks for sharing

hahaha that was sooo good. makes me wanna buy some feeding tongs.

I tried your method with my gal............either she don't like the way the worms feel or she isn't interested in them for some reason. She grabs em but then lets go.

Unfortunately, I had to pester her because she dropped one right underneath her in her hide and they dig fast, so I had to take her out, churn up her dirt and she had to remodel LOL. It was cute tho watching her pull extra dirt out of the hide.....I'm sure she was grumbling the whole time.

My emp grabbed my feeding tongs the other day and almost pulled them out of my hand.
The strength of these critters is really impressive. The feeders don't have a chance.

haha it didnt want the worm it wanted you thought you was a bigger meal just pull you in via the tweezers lol...deffo looked hungry was eating that pretty damn fast lol

our emps take from tongs

my emps dont like worms.they dont seem interested.

great vid,they made me laugh fighting you to let go like tug of war.

How hard do they actually pull???

Quite hard actually if yr not ready they take the tongs lol
Ours won't youth worms either

Kweegwin wrote:

I can feel the love!

hahahaha

I like how that one cockroach came up to check out what was going on during the "food lure" part, only to quickly realize he shouldn't be getting that close.
My girl will take a worm sometimes, but I really have to coax her into it. ONCE - the first time - I just dropped it in front of her to watch it disappear into the dirt.
Bought tongs the next day.
She likes the nice soft crickets. And I've seen her snatch up one of the isopods for a snack.
Cool vid.

Great vid GS.
She does seem to pull a lot. I feed my hets the same way but they don't pull that hard.
It's funny though when they have a mealie in the chelicerae and one in each chelae.

i just realized upon second viewing.your mealies are way bigger than the ones i have here.im gonna get some superworms instead.
i lost two mealworms lastnight when i tried to feed em.my emp snatched em out of the tongs and just slammed to the soil like WWE.i watched the mealies burrow while my jaw dropped in amazement with the hostility and ungratefullnes of my emp.haha punk.

Bad scorpion! No worms!

shining wrote:

i just realized upon second viewing.your mealies are way bigger than the ones i have here.im gonna get some superworms instead.
i lost two mealworms lastnight when i tried to feed em.my emp snatched em out of the tongs and just slammed to the soil like WWE.i watched the mealies burrow while my jaw dropped in amazement with the hostility and ungratefullnes of my emp.haha punk.

I think I'll just give up on superworms. Last one dug into my emp's burrow after she grabbed it and dropped it.
Then it just laid there, annoying her when it moved around. Sat in there for 2 days.
About an hour ago I guess she had enough and carried it out only to deposit it on her doorstep and go back into her burrow in disgust. Almost like she was saying, "Here. You can take this thing back and get me something I actually like!"
Funny as hell.
So yeah... not a fan of superworms, apparently.

Man i wish i had bought an emporer instead of a flat rock. My thinking was that Emporers are played out and everyone has one, but my flat rock doesnt do anything at all. Never see her, she hasnt eaten since january shes not getting much fatter maybe shes molting. but shes booooooooooooring!

Shoot, you can still buy an emperor and have 2 scorpions!

ya but than id have to explain to my chick why there are four scorpions in our room now

LOL ok 4!

I use to have a bunch of Pandinus. I love the feisty males. they are the funnest to watch. Always running around and threatening each other and digging and being interesting. I have an extra ten gallon tank. hmmmmmmm. Ive actually always wanted to do P. heterometrus.

Just get one she won't even notice