EMPEROR SCORPION!!!!!
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keep them moist and dont keep a black light on them 24/7. Otherwise, they are very straight forward.
HAH thanks vicious_fish.
I've been demoted to EMPEROR SCORPION!!!!!
But regardless, He's actually more like 5-6" with tail.
He was $15 in Portland, OR (THANKS TWIN!)
And he's from Guana. So he has the hairs.
I don't have a black/uv light at all, he's actually still in a fairly large tupperware.
I'm getting a 10g tank for him this week, and I got "Cocohusk" Compressed Coconut Fiber for substrate.
If anyone is familiar with the famous pictures of Point Defiance's scorpions under UV light, I remember seeing those scorpions when I was a little, and I mean little, kid.
I actually live a couple miles away, and can skate there whenever.
But they've since removed the bug/reptile exhibit (Spellcheck?) and I don't know if they'll ever return it.
Is a small water dish (Currently a Gatorade lid full of water) enough for the humidity?
This is basically the only insect/arachnid I've ever wanted ever, and I never thought I'd get one so soon.
I always wanted hercules beetles, but I guess they only live a few weeks. So I'd need a large tank with a population to enjoy them. Bummer.
I'll throw some nasty cell phone pictures up in a little bit, but I'll have my friends come over with their fancy schmancy cameras and get some beautiful shots under a nice light.
Anyone else keep these?
I've been demoted to EMPEROR SCORPION!!!!!
But regardless, He's actually more like 5-6" with tail.
He was $15 in Portland, OR (THANKS TWIN!)
And he's from Guana. So he has the hairs.
I don't have a black/uv light at all, he's actually still in a fairly large tupperware.
I'm getting a 10g tank for him this week, and I got "Cocohusk" Compressed Coconut Fiber for substrate.
If anyone is familiar with the famous pictures of Point Defiance's scorpions under UV light, I remember seeing those scorpions when I was a little, and I mean little, kid.
I actually live a couple miles away, and can skate there whenever.
But they've since removed the bug/reptile exhibit (Spellcheck?) and I don't know if they'll ever return it.
Is a small water dish (Currently a Gatorade lid full of water) enough for the humidity?
This is basically the only insect/arachnid I've ever wanted ever, and I never thought I'd get one so soon.
I always wanted hercules beetles, but I guess they only live a few weeks. So I'd need a large tank with a population to enjoy them. Bummer.
I'll throw some nasty cell phone pictures up in a little bit, but I'll have my friends come over with their fancy schmancy cameras and get some beautiful shots under a nice light.
Anyone else keep these?
It would be safer to use those pads for crickets or the jelly they sell for inverts. Every critter I have had seemed to have a tendency to drown incredibly easy. Spray for humidity.
hope yours is smarter than mine and nicer (he was to stupid to eat he just walked over to it with his claws raised in the air and stepped on it he died because of that also every time i walked into the room he would stare at me like he wanted to rip my face off)
I have been wanting one for a long time. When I get back home from this deployment I'm going to try and convince my girlfriend that it isn't a bad idea, but she has the impression that I'll do something like letting it out on our bed.
Richie_ELP;4667357; said:
Sorry man, but that is not good advice for keeping emperors or any scorpion.
Have a water dish. If you're worried about drowning, put some marbles in the dish to make it shallow(if it is not shallow enough already). Those pads and jelly will not do anything for the scorpion. Besides, most of them have calcium supplemented in them, which is bad for emperors. Scorpions will drink fro a water dish.
All spraying does is annoy the arachnid. Any rise in humidity will not last long, so you'll be misting again and again, and annoying the scorp again and again until it dies from stress. Simply keep the substrate damp(I suggest coconut fiber) by pouring aged tap water on it.
Offer plenty of hiding spots and substrate. These guys do like to dig, so make sure the substrate will be able to support burrows and not collapse on them.
Hmm, I choose the not run the risk of them deciding to drown. I never used an open body of water for any invert. Cricket pads and a good misting worked fine with mine for the entire eight years it took him to finally die. I doubt it bothered him anyway, he spent all of his time in the substrate as it is. Pouring, spraying, same as rain in my opinion.
Richie_ELP;4736352; said:
With marbles or pebbles in the water dish it makes it impossible to drown. It allows the invert to simply crawl through a thin film of water with no threat of drowning. I have two metallic green ground beetles(genus Chlaenius) that run around like crazy whenever I open their container. When I first got them I noticed they would tumble into the water dish in all their madness, so I got some pebbles and put them in the dish. After that the beetles just scurried over the water with no problems. I've had them since April.
I used to keep true spiders(mainly wolf spiders) watered with nothing more than a cotton ball in a bottle cap filled with water. They never lived past 2 months. Now I've been keeping them with open water dishes and have not had a single spider drown on me. They seem to live longer too. Some of my spiders have been in my care for almost 2 years now.
The only arachnids I don't let have water dishes are those that live in webs(like black widows) and baby spiders. Those I mist a side of the container very lightly and they are able to track the water down and drink it up.