emperor scorpion general chat and care

atleast scorps aint as bad as g. rosea i mean one of mine hasnt eaten in 2 months and counting

Scorps can fast a lot longer than that. I know of one person whose scorpions went without eating through all of winters.

scorpion111 wrote:

Maybe she has a slow metabolism or someting.

Scorpions have ridiculously slow metabolisms. Some have those slower than vegetables.

i know they can but i meant its only been 2 months so far, i had one before that went a full year with no food, then molted then went absolutely mental for food lol

its totally normal. I have a Iomachus politus *she so teeeeeny* and she has only had one cricket, one small cricket since I got her. She just isnt interested at the moment. I keep popping one in every other week but still she not interested.

They like to do this to us so we spend money on the crickets and then they dont eat and we lose the money when they all begin to die *hehe*

Can we say . . . roach colony??

i have a lobster roach colony, but my rosies dont like them, i think its cuz there too scatty and just run everywhere, luckily my leos and beardies love them

i was lucky to get a few free roaches at the pet shop once. but they were full grown and the babies didnt eat them, and the adult never eats anyway.

more scorps have moulted. only 3 more left to go.

hmmmm....... the adult emp seems to be REALLY agressive latley. i mean REALLY. she goes crazy whenever i take a peek inside the tank. i dont know what the hell is wrong with her, temps are fine, humidity is good.

mabye she's just goin' crazy.

Is that the one that already popped? Weird, if so. Sounds like gravid behavior.

Have you fed her lately?

IHeartMantids wrote:

Is that the one that already popped? Weird, if so. Sounds like gravid behavior.

Have you fed her lately?

shes been fasting for ages, so i gave up feeding her for a few weeks, but since she seems rearing to go, ill give her a cricket tonight and see what she does with it.

really sounds like gravid behavior. does she look like a blimp? like shes going to EXPLODE?

electrophyste wrote:

really sounds like gravid behavior. does she look like a blimp? like shes going to EXPLODE?

shes not gravid. she had a brood a few months ago. and there are no more scorps in the tank with her.

ok i tryed to feed her yesterday. still fasting.

Weird.

Sounds like she's just being an emp.

well in going on holiday next saturday, so the scorp can have some alone time.

anyhoo as you know ive got scorplings. well most are 3i, some are 2i, and some are 3i about to moult into 4i.

well some of the olders are getting abit agro towards the younger sibs, and everyones at different eating stages. so im gonna move the older, feeding ones to an other tank. where they can get all the food thet want, and it will leave the 2i's to finish their moults.

i dont know... i'll have to do a headcount. ive probably lost a few. one died from a bad moult a few weeks ago.

right, well ive moved all the babies to thier new cage. when i lifted up all the hides they were all running around in pannic so i juct took em with the bigguns. well they seem to like thier new home! one started burrowing as sonn as i put him in!

although most of them havent discovered the hides and pre-made burrows, and are in a giant heap in the corner.

oh and i did a headcount - there are 12 left. and when i lifted up a hide i found a dead 2i.
overall, am very happy.

well, all the scorps have consructed burrows. there are a few, and there are more than one scorp in most of the burrows. anyway some of the burrows have disapeared. if a borrow colapses with a scorp inside, will it be able to dig itself out easily? i also noticed a scorp diging a burrow, then when i came back a while later and startled him, he sorta dragged a bit of substrate to the burrow and cloged himself inside it. is this normal?

I've had young emps escape from collapsed burrows before now. its happened twice. one managed to find the original entrance and the other kept burrowing upto the side of the enclosure and followed the plastic upwards.

As for dragging substrate down... never saw mine do that.

thanks, connie.

weel, thats me happy as a clam. i thought a few scorps had escaped because the headcount didnt add up.... well on further expection they were buried deep in the susbstrate. there were never any burrows there that i know off..... anyway thats a weight lifted.

oh and i found out i had 13 not 12.