after the mating

what will happen to the male scorp after mating the female?? i've been thinking about this before i got my first scorp.. i'm a newbie

The female will most likely try and eat him so he will need to be removed to his own vivarium/ or method of housing

well, I had a successful mating and they both seemed fine after. I saw them doing the dance, I let them be and came back to see a spermatophore. I then came back about 2 hours later and saw them do it again haha. Saw a second spermatophore lol

If you don't want to risk it, remove the male. I left him in there and it was fine.

how many times you did that? so the mating is not always successful?

if they had a succesfull mating and the female pops will they be do the mating again?

yup, mating is not always successful and yes, they can mate again afterward too. I didn't even plan on having them mate actually haha. I just kept them together and one day saw them mating. The male has passed away, but I believe the mating was successful because the female is getting larger.

the male died? for what reason?

He passed away several months after the mating. He probably died due to stress or old age. The reason I say stress is because I introduced an emperor scorpion and it kept harassing him. I took the emp out, but my heterometrus died shortly after.

What species are we talking about here? I've only mated Uroctonus mordax and Centruroides exilicauda, and in both cases the two scorpions just wandered off in their own directions.

binksyboy3 wrote:

The female will most likely try and eat him so he will need to be removed to his own vivarium/ or method of housing

Stop spreading misinformation. This isn't even true with mantids or black widows.

Happened with mine thats all

That doesn't deserve a "most likely" designation then.