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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
 |  Subject: Communal breeding?  10/8/2009, 5:51 pm | |
| hi guys just wondering if you have 4 emps [2 male,2 female] in one tank.. how do you breed? someone had an experience before? |
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H. laoticus
Centruroides
Number of posts: 193
Age: 21
Location: Southern California
Registration date: 2009-03-26
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/8/2009, 7:17 pm | |
| They breed themselves. Just have some flat pieces of rock or bark in there for the spermatophores. Best results if they are all adults.
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Crickets need a suicide hotline...either that or swimming lessons.
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/8/2009, 8:17 pm | |
| | H. Laoticus wrote: | | They breed themselves. Just have some flat pieces of rock or bark in there for the spermatophores. Best results if they are all adults. |
yeah they're all adults.. thanks man.. so another question.. after they mate. the female will devour the male right? what should i do? |
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Chrome
Centruroides
Number of posts: 129
Age: 22
Location: western Canada
Registration date: 2009-08-04
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/8/2009, 8:33 pm | |
| the female in emps don't usually kill the males, its usually just a hit it and quit it kind of thing heh |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 6794
Age: 23
Location: Oregon
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/8/2009, 10:17 pm | |
| Didn't you ask this somewhere else?  I've never heard of the post-mating cannibalism being common (or even occurring) in scorpions . . . even in spiders, that's rare. _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blogBe nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 6794
Age: 23
Location: Oregon
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/9/2009, 7:14 pm | |
| Well, if you saw the male lying dead, he obviously wasn't devoured . . . Scorps just die sometimes. Jumping to conclusions usually restricts you later on in the hobby (for example, I had an adult WC Scolopendra subspinipes die and I blamed nematodes because I'd seen one or two in his tank MONTHS beforehand, but it was probably just old age). _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blogBe nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/9/2009, 8:23 pm | |
| | Mr. Mordax wrote: | Well, if you saw the male lying dead, he obviously wasn't devoured . . .
Scorps just die sometimes. Jumping to conclusions usually restricts you later on in the hobby (for example, I had an adult WC Scolopendra subspinipes die and I blamed nematodes because I'd seen one or two in his tank MONTHS beforehand, but it was probably just old age). |
maybe my male spinifer was so stress coz of hitting by the female, sometimes i caught the male climbing and the female right beneath him trying to hurt him.. the problem was i just ignored it and i did'nt separate them from different tanks.. my female spinifer now is 2 years and 7 months old same as the male..
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/9/2009, 8:24 pm | |
| | Chrome wrote: | | the female in emps don't usually kill the males, its usually just a hit it and quit it kind of thing heh |
what if finally the female give birth? i should separate the other three to different terrarium? |
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Mr. Mordax
Administrator
Number of posts: 6794
Age: 23
Location: Oregon
Registration date: 2008-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/9/2009, 8:52 pm | |
| Females are more likely to attack tankmates when they're close to popping or with young (not just after mating) -- so yeah, it may be wise to take the others out of the tank until the young leave mom's back. _________________ If your emperor scorpion stops eating, don't panic. | My reviews | My Bug Pictures | My blogBe nice -- you were a noob once, too "Never ask an engineer to explain something, because he will." |
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
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covel42
Pandinus
Number of posts: 28
Age: 21
Registration date: 2009-09-12
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/15/2009, 2:56 pm | |
| ive got 5 females with 2 males in a 4 foot by 2 foot viv. fights are minimal as long as supply adquate food for them all. really ionteresting to see them interact. |
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venomshock
Pandinus
Number of posts: 29
Age: 23
Location: Pilipinas
Registration date: 2009-09-23
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/20/2009, 6:21 pm | |
| yeah just adequate supply of food..  |
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covel42
Pandinus
Number of posts: 28
Age: 21
Registration date: 2009-09-12
| | Subject: Re: Communal breeding? 10/21/2009, 6:11 am | |
| completely. they can chomp through those locusts lol |
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thnx
