Emperor scorpion died

grr..i have to wait till the middle of next month to get another xbox 360...
lol but im gonna get mw1 and mw2

(i think were a little off topic)


dude my big one is...well theres no nice way for me to say this...but hes a ***hole...i cant even reach in the tank without him getting all defensive about his lil 10 gallon area...lol he runs when i open the tank, but comes charging to pinch when i actually touch the substrate

Lol Well as i hear, they say you cant teach them and they wont get used to it but i beg to differ. My oldest pinched me when i first got him, and now he never does. no matter where he is he never pinches.

well i let him pinch me, just to get it out of his system...
and he didnt even do it that hard...
my 1st one though, hes got a vicious grip...

im almost half tempted to let them sting me full on, just so i know what to expect and i can get over my paranoia...

I am scared to get pinched. are the big ones strong enough to draw blood? The chelicarae are scary

its not that bad...
yes they are strong enough to draw blood, but it depends how irrtated they get.

im more scared of being stung, thats a scary concept...

Lol yeah im afraid of the sting but everyone says it hurts less to get stung than get pinched.. My big one that i had pinched me and it hurt... he dangled off my finger lol

same with mine, i shook the crap out of him to get him off..

lol i didnt shake him just stuck him back in his house and he let go

lol i didnt have that kind of patience...
my 1st clamped on and i immediately thought of squashing it until i realized i brought it on myself lol

ROFL lol yeah there not all that expensive but i could never squish them. I enjoy them too much for that

exactly...
although now, when the bigger male gets too close and i think hes gonna pinch me, i just flick him on the pinchers or flick his head and he backs off long enough for me to refill the water, clean the bowl, or remove body parts...

HAHAH thats hilarious dude. There not ambush genus either so when you say that, it makes me laugh. that doesnt make sense.

dude everything my scorpions do is different from what everyone elses does...
some peoples scorpions are skittish, some peoples burrow, others fast, mine havent done any of that...

and i have no idea why my scorpions happen to be the weird ones?
i guess like humans, no 2 scorpions are the same...

What do you have for hides? if you make it so there is just enough room for your scorp and whatever the roof is, they will burrow to get more room inside of there hide

gimme a second and ill take pics of the hides...

the bigger males (#2) hide in his tank ( he even came out for a pic)

this used to be one giant rock, until i found a hammer


the 2 hides in my first scorpions tank
basically just coco fiber, rocks and a piece of tile

i bought this from dr. fosters and smith dot com

the lycan mikey wrote:

i think hes gonna pinch me, i just flick him on the pinchers or flick his head and he backs off long enough for me to refill the water, clean the bowl, or remove body parts...

Advice: Don't do that.

yeah i know...but shes (you just told me shes female) got a grip like a 50 lb vice grip

Well if you make all the hides so that he can bearly fit in there, and keep them almost full of fibers, they will dig it out to make enough room until they are comfortable. Thats what i did and both of mine dug there houses out until they were comfortable.

oh both of them love the hides i made for them...
the 1st scorpion doesnt really like the half log hide anymore cause i moved the fake leaf that coverd it, but they love the caves i made cause they can hide perfectly in a dark spot in the corner =)

the lycan mikey wrote:

they can hide perfectly in a dark spot in the corner =)

Their favourite

binksyboy3 wrote:

the lycan mikey wrote:

they can hide perfectly in a dark spot in the corner =)

Their favourite

yup =)

I read the first page and have this to say to the OP:

Deaths happen randomly. Don't beat yourself up over an unexplained casualty.

Aside from the substrate, your setup was fine, and I doubt using moss instead of soil would contribute to her death.

Hi Mr. Mordax,

Thanks for the reply, do you think it could have been the heat lamp that killed it? Some people seem to think that could have been the culprit (even though I did put a hide at the lit end, and the temp only rose to as high as 86F)

And could it have been molting problems that killed Rose? She was my first Emperor, I've no experience with molting whatsoever but I did notice that she was extraordinarily bloated before she died.....you can see the wrinkly stretched out skin in the body pics.

Thanks in advance!!

She may have been in premolt, but the only time I've had a scorpion die from molting complications, it made it out of the exo first. Then it died and never hardened.

I doubt it was the lamp, if you say it was only 86F and I saw you had suitable hides.