Sad News Folks.

Well all, my hopes for babies from my first scorpion were dashed yesterday upon finding Scorpinox dead in her hide.

In other sad news, it looks like Bumblebee will follow her soon.

We aren't sure what happened, but maybe something in the environment got to them. We live in an apartment and can only guess that perhaps spraying was done and ended up in our apartment, or something else contaminated their environment as it came on quite suddenly. One day they were both running around normal, and within a couple days, tails flat, not moving much, etc. I discovered no mites and the humidity and temps were good.

We won't be giving up, and intend to get another pair at some point as they are quite enjoyable to watch and learn from.

She was laid to rest under the shade of a tree on 1/2/12. I will miss her

so sorry to hear that anna maybe its just old age we had the same thing happen our first ever scorpion died within a month of us getting it from old age, just the way it goes when buying adults....dont give up! its probably nothing that you did at all, wish you lived in uk would have sent you a few of our emp babies, we have just lost all our celebensis babies there was a good thirty i found dead, also lost the small 2 from our emp babie batch so that sucks too

Thank you Bex. Although I am quite disheartened I won't be giving up. This is something I found I enjoy very much.

Wow, what do you think happened to the celebensis? Are they hard to care for? So sorry , sorry to hear about the other babies too.

I think it was my own fault, i thought they had been misted and fed but they hadn't and as they were so small it didn't take much for them to dehydrate, i was feeding them micro crickets they was that small bless them, just been so busy lately kinda let things slip

Well I'm sorry to see this Anna.

Thats so sad, just believe that you gave them kindness and love. I know its probably not possible for a scorp to feel anything but hunger and pain, but we love our pets very much. Otherwise we wouldnt run to the pet store to get crickets or roaches, and make sure that their enclosures are as close to the wild as can be without a full release back into the unknown. Atleast with us they dont need to fear being ate by a bird or over size desert mouse. Ive had the first scorpion I got for almost a year now. They live in a tank, we feed them, something happens and we mourn. In 10 years someones gonna ask you about your first Scorpion and your face will brighten and you will and tell them all about her. With a smile on your face and peace in your heart. Kinda cheesy I know but they become part of us. They are dependent on us and we thrive on that. They are our pets.

lmiller wrote:

Thats so sad, just believe that you gave them kindness and love. I know its probably not possible for a scorp to feel anything but hunger and pain, but we love our pets very much. Otherwise we wouldnt run to the pet store to get crickets or roaches, and make sure that their enclosures are as close to the wild as can be without a full release back into the unknown. Atleast with us they dont need to fear being ate by a bird or over size desert mouse. Ive had the first scorpion I got for almost a year now. They live in a tank, we feed them, something happens and we mourn. In 10 years someones gonna ask you about your first Scorpion and your face will brighten and you will and tell them all about her. With a smile on your face and peace in your heart. Kinda cheesy I know but they become part of us. They are dependent on us and we thrive on that. They are our pets.

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*~BEX~* wrote:

I think it was my own fault, i thought they had been misted and fed but they hadn't and as they were so small it didn't take much for them to dehydrate, i was feeding them micro crickets they was that small bless them, just been so busy lately kinda let things slip

Well, things like that do happen. Learning experiences right?

Thank you all, and yes, my face will always brighten at the thought of my first ever scorpion

Sorry to hear bout your loss.
I agree with Bex on old age, my male emp died one month after I bought him. Apparently most adults that are being sold, are already reaching the end of their life. Hence, why I currently don't have emps at all.

Annababe wrote:

Well, things like that do happen. Learning experiences right?
Thank you all, and yes, my face will always brighten at the thought of my first ever scorpion

That's the spirit Anna

DolbyR wrote:

Sorry to hear bout your loss.
I agree with Bex on old age, my male emp died one month after I bought him. Apparently most adults that are being sold, are already reaching the end of their life. Hence, why I currently don't have emps at all.

Thanks. I just thought it was extremely strange that they both started declining within a day of each other. Hence, the environmental factor. Eh.

@ GS-Thank you too

Hmmmm that is kinda weird so maybe it was the environment or mabye it was just olda age coincedence. Either way sorry for your loss. i just got my emp but i love her almost like a child already and if she died i would be so hysterical you dont even know.

I know how you felt Anna, there's something about that first scorp that sparks the addiction. I was truly sad when I lost one of my first, Haddy, no other arizonensis will replace her.

I wouldn't blame yourself though, loses are inevitable, especially with adults of an unknown age. Same to you Bex, looking after that many celebensis babies is not easily done, they're freaking TINY!

I had a very sad lose recently. I'm sure most of you remember the female Het. madraspatensis that gave me a brood a little while ago. Well I mated her again to a male I had, all went well, video on youtube, seemed to be successful. Then before I could even post the video up she dropped dead! I was soo gutted.

Sorry to hear that Jamie

At least you got to keep some part of her before she died

As of this morning, I'm pretty sure that Bumblebee has passed. He hasn't moved from the spot under the heat lamp for 2 days and today I see no movement at all even with a light blow across him. I will lay him to rest next to Scorpinox when I get home today.

So sorry about your scorps Anna. I hope you get some more soon.

Me too.

I think I'll be more aware of what's going on in the environment though, and check with my apartments to find out if they do indeed do pesticides inside apartments because I have already checked with my LPS and they do have some Pandinus. These guys breed their own so I know they aren't WC (well often, sometimes they have WC).

Our neighbors upstairs recently moved out, that's another thought I had, maybe chemicals from insect spray or carpet cleaning got into my vent system or something.

Anyway, still not giving up

Sorry Anna

Never a great feeling to lose someone or something!

Bumblebee is still hanging in there............not sure how, but he moved from one spot to another today. Feel so bad.

R.I.P. Bumblebee 1/8/12

Well, that sucks. Sorry, Anna.

One of my C. gracilis just got cannibalized by it's own sibling.

I vote against keeping emps, they just die :/

Will3 wrote:

I vote against keeping emps, they just die :/

I think my emp would disagree with you on that.

Scorpion19981000 wrote:

Well, that sucks. Sorry, Anna.

One of my C. gracilis just got cannibalized by it's own sibling.

That's too bad, so sorry for your loss

We will end up getting more

Will3 wrote:

I vote against keeping emps, they just die :/

haha i think my 17 emps will disagree with you on that also lol