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tfleming
Tityus
Number of posts : 589
Age : 72
Location : Cedar Creek, Tx
Registration date : 2011-07-18
| | Subject: No Emps! 10/16/2011, 6:05 pm | |
| Well, a long story short, I was typing this early and hit the wrong button and lost all that I had typed. Anyway all my emps are dead. A couple of weeks ago, I went to our neighbor hood store and it was covered with crickets. I decided to collect some. I kept them for a few days to watch for any problems. After I didn't see any issues I fed them to my emps. Well, while I was cleaning out the cage I had put one of my females in a cricket container I got from a pet store, well she got out and is lose inside our house. Thursday my male died and Friday my other female died. Very sudden so I suspect it was the crickets I fed may have been contaminated. What a way to learn a lesson! 
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**GS**
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2629
Age : 42
Location : facebook.com/ScorpionArchives
Registration date : 2010-09-06
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/16/2011, 8:10 pm | |
| It's a terrible feeling to have our emps wiped out. To play safe, always use feeders which are home-bred or from your local petstore. Even isopods which are wild-collected, are recommended to be bred a few generations before being introduced to our Emp's enclosure as "cleaners" Sry to hear about your lost bud  | |
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tfleming
Tityus
Number of posts : 589
Age : 72
Location : Cedar Creek, Tx
Registration date : 2011-07-18
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/16/2011, 8:16 pm | |
| Thanks GS, but I've learned a valuable lesson. Never, Never again. I've had nothing problems with feeding crickets. I really plan on raising roaches. I'd love to be able to raise grasshoppers, I think they make a great food source and unlike crickets I don't have to worry about them eating molted scorps. | |
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**GS**
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2629
Age : 42
Location : facebook.com/ScorpionArchives
Registration date : 2010-09-06
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/16/2011, 8:29 pm | |
| True.. about grasshoppers. If they have Zero tendencies to scavenge for food (meat) even when they're famished.. they might be an alternative. I know they're "vegetarian" but if i'm starved in a deserted island.. mostly likely.. i'll eat anything that moves! lolz For roaches, i recommend B.lateralis. I have a giant tub of about 1k adult roaches (ratio of 8/2 : female/male) and i clean their tub every 2 weeks. During the same time, i'll harvest the egg cases and put them in a separate container which will be the supplies of roach nymphs for my scorplings  | |
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shining
Parabuthus
Number of posts : 1162
Age : 40
Location : Phoenix, Arizona
Registration date : 2011-05-28
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 2:14 am | |
| that is a real drag.go back to where you found em and exterminate the abominations! | |
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DolbyR
Leiurus
Number of posts : 2097
Age : 42
Location : facebook.com/ScorpionArchives
Registration date : 2011-01-03
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 3:17 am | |
| GS bro, in what conditions do you keep the B. lateralis. I have a tub setup with some but I can't seem to get them leave any eggcases. | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 8:49 am | |
| aw that sucks...sorry for your losses | |
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tfleming
Tityus
Number of posts : 589
Age : 72
Location : Cedar Creek, Tx
Registration date : 2011-07-18
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 11:49 am | |
| Thanks Bex, just a stupid mistake! | |
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*~BEX~*
Administrator
Number of posts : 4246
Age : 41
Registration date : 2010-08-29
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 11:52 am | |
| hey we learn from our mistakes | |
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tfleming
Tityus
Number of posts : 589
Age : 72
Location : Cedar Creek, Tx
Registration date : 2011-07-18
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 2:00 pm | |
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Annababe
Tityus
Number of posts : 834
Age : 53
Location : Tucson, AZ
Registration date : 2011-06-30
| | Subject: Re: No Emps! 10/17/2011, 2:07 pm | |
| Sorry to hear that | |
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