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The one I have is a desert species, so they will like it bone dry. The cap has napkin shreddings in it. I use napkin shreddings for my spider and it works fine. I already got the dirt and stuff, its already in there. I figure if I keep the cage clean and dry, I won't have any mite or mold...

I managed to find a baby scorpion. :) I've always seen the adults, but never such a small one. I was digging for ants, and about 5 inches underground was this rotten piece of wood, that looked like it had been eaten by termites at one point. Well, I uncovered one hole expecting to find more...

thats good, then I can just get the dirt from where they are. The aquarium the scorpion will go in is rather large, its 15 gallons. I'm out of proper housing homes though, but I think it will give it plenty of room. I always like my pets to have a lot of room.

I'm planning to get the substrate from where they are already nesting. But I have a lot of different substrates I've bought that I can use, if that isn't a good idea to get the soil from where they are living. I figured they would not be hard, I remember a while ago ago (same species as one I'm...

Scorpions have always seemed like a good pet. I find a lot of Paruroctonus silvestrii (california common scorpion) under rocks and wood where I go hiking, so they would be the easiest species for me to catch. I've been reading about raising them and it doesn't seem hard at all. I have two...

Fire ants are a really easy ant to capture, don't even need to wait for the mating flights. The nests around here I just dig a couple inches or a few inches into the soil on a warm day and the queens will be up near the surface. Then look through the soil you dug up and you should find one or...

(edit) I'm going to post this in the trade forum, I think that is where this goes since I want to buy termites. I think this is in the wrong section.