Do Scorps Eat....

Hey i just got a nice flat dish and i choped up some fresh cold apple bannannas pear and some other fresh fruit for it dose anyone know if its good for them or if they even eat it? i would of thaught that its healthy for it cus i dnt think any of its bad for em maybe the fruit has vitamins in it? or good stuff for it? and maybe a good source of water? i dnt know bt thaught id ask anyways..

my scorp seems to like apple hes eating it okey

the apple has moisture and in all likelihood your scorp is thirsty and drinking. I'm not sure of the nutritional value of apple juice but give what I know about it's PH balance and it's effects on the teeth I can imagine it not being too good. all in all, fruits and veggies are not the type of food you offer to insectivores/carnivores.

Agree with Ras, sometimes some emps will just instinctivly eat anything....like my pencil...or finger. I wouldn't give 'em anything other than bugs.

lol, it eats apple?

well mine is..

i was watching something on tv and a parrot droped fruit from the tree and a scorp picked up and draged back to its hole so thaught id give it a try bt i didnt know its bad fro them.. sorry

if i cant feed it fruit hmm.. then is there anything else i can feed it? i want to feed it bugs and have a dish with spare food jst incase or to snack on... in my cham cage it has bugs as well as a dish with fresh food like apple..

maybe meat? like dog food? or what my dogs eat wich is dry meat? or chicken? i would jst like to give it a variety of diff things and have something in a dish to snack on

we never said that fruit was bad, I just can't imagine it being good. water gel, try water gel (calcium free)

Scorps dont need a big variety of foods. Just bugs.... Im gonna make a food info sheet as well as the other 2 im working on.

I'll believe it when I see it Eddy, hahaha. plbttt!

I have three in the planning process i'm looking to gathering pics and different site infos before I posted up. Otherwise it would be up in 5 mins.

Scorpions are insectivorous -- that is, they eat INSECTS. If you want it to have variety, switch between different species of roaches or from roaches to crickets.

I'm surprised your chameleon has any fruit in its enclosure -- as far as I was aware, they, too, feed exclusively on insects. There are some omnivorous herps out there (bearded dragons, blue-tongue skinks), but scorpions are NOT omnivorous.

The scorpion on TV that you mention probably mistook the sudden movement of falling fruit for an insect and in all likelihood did not eat it.

And scorps have no need of food to "snack" on -- just eating one bug a week is sufficient for almost all specimens you may have in your collection.

A vegetarian scorpion... i've heard everything now lol.

But yeah if it was dropped in it might have mistaken it for a cricket or something similar. I wouldn't keep on with that diet though!

well its a nice experiment to see if fruit is bad for scorp or not..

Not really we really won't know unless it drops dead.

well fruit is harder to digest than an insect isnt it?

Has anyone here ever heard the term "obligate carnivore"?

I belive I have.

mabye it will eat sausages...

yes...it will. Don't ask.