when are they most active?

I just bought two emperor scorpions and i will wait till midnight for them to come out but i dont see them much can someone tell me when they most commonly come out? sometimes they will come out but go rite back in.

Usually it is indeed night when they come out, but if you leave lights on it may confuse them.

Additionally, most emperors in my experience take a few days to a week to "settle in" and get used to their new surroundings.

yea i have also changed there caves around also and i only have a 5.2 gallon tank also i know they come out because the food is gone. do you ever feed them anything else besides crickets?

I believe you can also feed them roaches

quite a variety of feeders you can give them.
Crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, meal worms...these are the more common.

I don't like dealing with roaches or meal worms, so I stick to the crickets.

i am so new with owning these guys i was watching these guys dig last night they have 2 caves they have only been using 1 for the last 4 nights one came out of the one they use and hangs out for a little while then starts digging at the other cave then leaves the cave goes back to the cave they sleep in and digs a huge trench. how do you tell if they are mail or female????

There's a reason behind the name "pet holes"

http://aqua-terra-vita.com/Images/Scorpions/SexingEmperorScorpions.jpg

Click on this link and it will tell you the sex of your emps

We also have a sexing subforum with quite a few emp threads.

emperor2 wrote:

i know they come out because the food is gone.

Sometimes all that means is that food wandered down the hole.