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+3WyattEarp4137 Streettrash Noctrnl 7 posters |
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Noctrnl
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 98
Age : 38
Location : New Hampshire
Registration date : 2009-06-22
| | Subject: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:02 pm | |
| So I HAD 5 emps. The other day I decided to look in their tank to check them out since I hadn't seen them in a week or so. I found one scorpion up against the side of the hide and wall of the tank. I tapped the wall and it didn't move. I opened the tank and touched him and sure enough he was dead. I picked up their hide to see the others and found both my adults(female was pregnant) dead. I only have my two sub adults left. I've been feeding them regularly and kept their tank moist. There are no mites or anything else in the tank to explain their deaths. any ideas? | |
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Streettrash
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1836
Age : 40
Location : United States
Registration date : 2011-04-14
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:34 pm | |
| It's hard to say really as it could be any number of things. Were they properly heated? | |
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Noctrnl
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 98
Age : 38
Location : New Hampshire
Registration date : 2009-06-22
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:39 pm | |
| - Streettrash wrote:
- It's hard to say really as it could be any number of things. Were they properly heated?
yes. I their tank held steady at 85F. | |
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Streettrash
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1836
Age : 40
Location : United States
Registration date : 2011-04-14
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:41 pm | |
| Did they moult into adulthood in your care? How long have you had them? | |
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Noctrnl
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 98
Age : 38
Location : New Hampshire
Registration date : 2009-06-22
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:46 pm | |
| I've had them for about a year. the adults were already adults when I got them, soo they could have died from age I guess. but the other was a juvie | |
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Streettrash
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1836
Age : 40
Location : United States
Registration date : 2011-04-14
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 8:52 pm | |
| Strange indeed. If the other two die it could be contaminated feeders. Were there any visible injuries on either? Gravid females tend to get a bit aggro and can become aggressive toward their tankmates. | |
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Noctrnl
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 98
Age : 38
Location : New Hampshire
Registration date : 2009-06-22
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 9:01 pm | |
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Streettrash
Androctonus
Number of posts : 1836
Age : 40
Location : United States
Registration date : 2011-04-14
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 9:14 pm | |
| Crazy. I'd definitely say that something unusual happened to have three die on you at once. That sucks man. I'm sorry. | |
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WyattEarp4137
Babycurus
Number of posts : 397
Age : 32
Location : Ohio
Registration date : 2011-05-16
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/27/2011, 9:58 pm | |
| Dang. Sorry man, I though losing ten little scorplings was bad when I knew what was wrong.  Better luck in the future. | |
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Bedlam
Tityus
Number of posts : 548
Age : 30
Location : US
Registration date : 2011-04-03
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/28/2011, 1:09 am | |
| Thats horrible. Since you say there are no visible injuries, then I can not say they had gotten into a fight. Perhaps it was food, or old age. Maybe their is something in the enclosure the other 2 haven't gotten to yet. I would change the substrate. | |
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pluto
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2647
Age : 41
Location : Next to Manneke Pis
Registration date : 2011-04-16
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/28/2011, 3:16 am | |
| Is there any ventilation in the tank? Electrical wires touching the ground?
Infected water? | |
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Noctrnl
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 98
Age : 38
Location : New Hampshire
Registration date : 2009-06-22
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/28/2011, 9:52 pm | |
| plenty of ventilation, no wires touching the ground and I use water from my water purifier. | |
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J.Gusler
Hadogenes
Number of posts : 71
Age : 39
Registration date : 2011-03-22
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/29/2011, 12:36 am | |
| Sorry to here about your lose | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: Tragic 5/29/2011, 5:48 am | |
| sorry for your loss i would say maybe the gravid female should have been removed she may have killed the others and then just died from stress or old age, but i guess you will never really know sucks when you loose scorps  little dudes  | |
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