What mistakes have YOU done in the art of scorpion keeping?

Me?
Heater too close cooking them.
That's about it, I learned a lot from the net.

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I took 3 deli cups with I2 P imps outside to show a friend who was coming over to my house... well it was about 90° outside, but inside the sealed cups that were in direct sunlight for 20 minutes or so it was well over 100°... so when I opened them up I saw little rigor mortis corpses in the stilting position all over... lesson learned but I was Evil or Very Mad

um.. i kept 1 of my Hottetotta to humid and that killed her i guess.. that's all so far. i learned my lesson.

I let some C. hentzi get too dry . . . lost one gravid female and one brood that way. Sad

I think I lost a B. jacksoni from it getting to dry during a molt, too.

Allowed my fiance to do the mass collection and in the process he squashed one! It still alive actually! in pre moult...but I doubt it will be able to moult properly due to one massive dent in its side
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throwing away live Lychas Mucronatus. =.=

*Connie* wrote:: Allowed my fiance to do the mass collection and in the process he squashed one! It still alive actually! in pre moult...but I doubt it will be able to moult properly due to one massive dent in its side
xxxx

i can tell you that i have two scorps with dents and they are doing fine. one H.h. with birth deformation is molting properly and feeding too. other marure female L.mucronatus is even pregnant. she has masive dents on metasomal segments and telson. she acts normal.

liette wrote:: throwing away live Lychas Mucronatus. =.=

How the h--- did that happen?

Parabuthus Number of posts : 1051 Age : 41 Registration date : 2008-03-12

Kejser wrote:

liette wrote:: throwing away live Lychas Mucronatus. =.=

How the h--- did that happen?

remember the dying scorpions? that's the thread he's reffering to.

Liette, they very possibly could have been dead and the display that you witnessed in your replacements is not what your fist batch were doing. don't feel bad.

I got stung once and I had a scorp dessicate - I guess I've been a good keeper

Pandinus Number of posts : 4 Age : 43 Registration date : 2008-02-06

My very first scorpion the one who started all a nice big black emp, It look so cool in the white sand Sad

Yes.....my ignorance took away that scorpion's life.

-.Raul

I lost an A. maurt....I know I know...might still be in the house.
-Eddy

Parabuthus Number of posts : 1051 Age : 41 Registration date : 2008-03-12

~Abyss~ wrote:: I lost an A. maurt....I know I know...might still be in the house.
-Eddy

it's hiding in the boxers on your floor

I wouldn't doubt it.LOL

freeman wrote:

*Connie* wrote:: Allowed my fiance to do the mass collection and in the process he squashed one! It still alive actually! in pre moult...but I doubt it will be able to moult properly due to one massive dent in its side
xxxx

i can tell you that i have two scorps with dents and they are doing fine. one H.h. with birth deformation is molting properly and feeding too. other marure female L.mucronatus is even pregnant. she has masive dents on metasomal segments and telson. she acts normal.

oh thats good to know then! I hope the little one can moult but as yours has with dent then im sure my little damaged one will do fine. I do still have my "telsonless two" teeny and tiny who are feeding well *birth defect*

xxxxx

^I know a guy who had a telsonless scorp that is still alive and well, several molts later.

I have high hopes then since Im sure they can poop! since one had some on his face. NICE! hahaha
xxxx

My first mistake was assuming emperors liked sand. Wrong terrarium setups, etc...

I had an excellent setup for my P. Boreus when I got him but that was luck. Thankfully I found the scorpion boards at the arachno boards and then found "IHeartMantids" who helped me a TON and then pointed me here and I'm learning more and more every day. It's feeding my fascination with these creatures all the time! Fun!

No way you can get into this hobby and not make some mistakes, it is part of the learning process. It gets better with time.

Dude, you're embarrassing me! Embarassed

And you can call me Mike. It takes less time to type. Smile

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1. Mistook the Emp for a desert species...
2. Kept black light on for long periods of time b/c I thought it looked cool.
3. Put a mouse in.
4. Dropped the hide on my Emp by accident.

errrrr..

Gave my M.martensii`s mycosis from to wet substrate. Sad

Housed a I4 Cavimanus with a I3 Imperator...

Hey.... the petstore said it was fine (we really need that head going into wall from the AB emoticons)

8 days later (about two days after I recieved information on AB that this was a bad idea)... Rabbit was eaten by Tenacious. Atleast I got some good pictures.

accidentally dropping a piece of flat concrete that I was using for my H.Paucidens' enclosure on the scorpion itself. it survived with no damage, but I was so shaken up from doing that. the sand on the concrete made it slip out of my hands while I was removing it from the enclosure.

Didn't learn enough about matured crickets and put a female in with my lazy emp.. He / she eats like once every 3 weeks and not long after the cricket had been put in there I had lots of tiny little baby crickets

Yup. I just did that too, MooSmoo. I buried a film container in the substrate and filled it with water. Now I have a bunch of dead baby crix Smile

v3x wrote:: Yup. I just did that too, MooSmoo. I buried a film container in the substrate and filled it with water. Now I have a bunch of dead baby crix

lol oops, I took all the soil out and tried to keep them alive but I had no idea how and they all died Neutral

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