Hello from Canada!

Hey there... though i would show my 3 five year old Emperor Scorpions, Virgo Aries and Scorpio... I know the names are lame what ever lol


(From left to right Scorpio the male, Virgo the biggest and female, and Aries another female)

I bought them last week from my buddy he had 6 adults and 8 baby's he end up with to many i was going to buy four but one didn't make it before i bought them D:. So i got 3 of them and wow what a wicked species there robot like its creepy lol but so cool

Here's more pics...Mostly Virgo she not so shy of the camera unlike the others












sorry for the pic size ill re scale them

Nice pics Bro
Welcome to the forum

Thanks! yeah as you can see there very active i have vids of them eating to but there on Fbook D:

Howdy bro and welcome aboard. Awesome scorps dude and I think the names are sweet! I have a scorpion named Studly, THAT'S Lame. LOL!

That's a sweet name! So your scorpion stud-like? lol and thanks for the welcome

LOL Well, at first my room mate and I thought it was a male so he was like "We should name it Stud." so we did. After I researched them a little more, I checked and found out that Stud was a girl. Oops. So in our raving college genious we threw a Y on the end of her name. Oh well. She's a grouch but she's pretty sweet. She was the talk of the dorm when I was at school too.

Wow i liking the history with the name that's kool who ever think that name is lame need some help lol mine i just though water fire earth and air but air didn't make it im big into xtreme sports such as BMX, paintball and some other things so i like being out doors no matter how the weather is i do have a question i had 3 hiding spots for them but they all like to huddle near the heat mat but when i have the heat lamp on the all go to there own hiding spot is this norm for them?

Heres there home

Well, My 2 emps (Study and Griffon Spade) sometimes are huddled together in their burrow or in separate hides. Emps don't like light so that's probably why they run and hide, but it sounds like they aren't warm enough if they cluster on the heat pad. I am by no means an expert but that's what it sounds like to me. I wouldn't advise a heat pad and lamp at the same time though from what I have read in the past on this forum. I hava 75 Watt red bulb on for my emps 24/7. They can't see red so they come out and adventure when I have the other lights off and seem happy. You got pics of your tank?

hi and welcome to the forum sweet scorps dude and i name all mine lol

heat mats a no no for burrowing species.stick to heat lamps with some kind of dimmer or way of controlling the heat output.
welcome to the forum and congrats on those lil black beauties.

i have a 8"x8" heat mat that's 8 watts and a 50 watt bulb infrared they seem to be fine very active compared to when i brought them home they were no happy with the moving thing i dont think any scorpions are also this is all in a 20 gallon tank

Try upping the bulb to 75 watts and losing the heating pad. How deep is their substrate?

4 to 5 inches deep...i got the lowest heat bulb i could fine i dont want them to cook

Ok, maybe try for 6-7 inches of substrate, what is it BTW? and you can up the bulb without a worry. If they get too hot, they go into their burrow. Which is a dnager of heat pads. They heat the tank from the bottom so the emps have no place cool to retreat to. You don;t want to run the risk of cooking them underground either.

Well i put the pad at the rear of the tank instated of the bottom my tank has some weird crap underneath it. The Substrate is Compressed Coconut Fiber Expandable Substrate came in three Bricks odd stuff lol but it works well

Ok, I know exactly what you are talking about with your substrate. Good stuff indeed. I use plain peat moss personally but they both work just as well. From everything I have heard on here, the heat pad on the side is a no-no. Hop on chat man and I'll talk your ear off.

The Chat Box dose not work under a Linux ops Java Blows lol im a hard core geek ill just switch in to windows

Interesting. Huh, oh well. My bad bro.

theres seems to be a javascriptvoid(0) error with it i look at the it in both Linux and Windows not sure whats the issue is but ill pm you my email

Ok sounds good to me.

Its seems to be the sit O.o

The forum you mean?

site*/yeap im a mod on another broad for my art work

Interesting. Sweet bro. As in you do the artwork??

yeah and some other guys do it to its called Pixel Car Art