- paul_83 wrote:
- not sure what the substrate is exactly, its called prorep spider life and seems to be mostly sort of spongy soil (sorry, best i can describe it really) with a mixture of bark and gold colour kind of almost metallic crystals (sorry again thats probably not much help).i was judging by the depth from the shop i originally bought it from.
Sounds to me like it's simply a mixture of bark chips and vermiculite.
Definitely go with Eddy's advice and get the scorp some coco-fiber substrate.
- paul_83 wrote:
- the tank originally had a polystyrene rock effect back on it to feed cables through and unfortuanetly my emp managed to climb inside inside it, she had dug a fairly deep burrow underneath a hide so it wasnt really unusual not to see her. wasnt until i did a sweep for cricket parts that a realised she had been stuck half way up the tank for a couple of days and presumably froze to death.
Ok, what are you currently using for a heat source?
What is the temp in that room? I highly doubt the scorp died from being too cold, unless you're keeping that room at 4°C or lower 24/7. More likely it died of dehydration, or, if stuck in a hot spot in the tank, overheating.
Also, what are you using to measure the temp?
I highly doubt that there's such a massive difference in temperature on one side of the tank from the other, given the size of the tank. If there
is, then you have a hotspot, which is going to stress the hell out of your scorp and shorten it's lifespan. The only way I can see that happening is if you are using a heating pad that's only transferring heat to one area of the tank.
(For those of you that don't know Celsius, one side of the tank is around 82ºF while the other is around 60ºF.....a temp difference of over 20º.)
Anyway, the temp difference is probably what's causing her to stay on the cooler side of the tank, as the temp is more uniform away from the heat source.