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Nematodes or fly larvae? It will be very helpful to take this parasites to an microscope to differentiate the kind of pathogen. Oral nematodes have been studied for years, and no efficacy treatment protocol have been established. So.... it will be very helpful to determine what happen with or...

There's a lot of important issues, and what you mean about "obvious"? What is obvious to you?

Sorry but you're completely wrong.... Any venom can cause anaphylactic reaction, even ant, bee or any oher kind of venom, depending only of the individual immune response, because of that you can never said that none of them cause allergic reaction (and allergy is the wrong name here... but, any...

Can you handle your animal and examine it? Look for signs.... Take a close look to the lungs opening and specially to the mouth parts.... Look for anything different, I really mean anything... There are feaces in the terrarium sides (by feaces I mean uric acid, urine...)? If there's feaces, have...

I'll try not sound like a jerk too... so... even a bee sting can be dangerous to a pregnant human, the immune response in pregnants are way different from the normal, and even the T hairs can be a potential issue, and the venom and the hairs can cause a anaphylactic response...

One question: why did you use PAM for your python?! Fresh water sources are way better... but... For the centipedes, you need a high moisture enviroment... I don't know if I understand your issue... hahah

It doesn't look like "mycosis", and mycosis do have treatment just like any other fungal infection. It looks like a infection spot or a scar. Scar tissue in scorpions look black, just like focal infection, because the melanin is very active in the immune system of scorpions.

Thanks! No no, i'll not remove the babies, but sometimes one or another fell off. Usually it works well put the new born in the back of the mother or another scorpion with babies, but sometimes, in collective vivariums, we have a lot of new borns in the ground... And every new born dead is a...

Does anyone have any success on keep new born scorpions out of the mother's back? Any tips? Thanks

You can't microwave a rock!! You only can microwave what have water in the composition! If you put a rock in the microwave you'll take it in the end just cold as before!!!

Ok, hahha, so depth it is!!!

I sugest put it on the left or right, so you can offer a greater gradient (if your terrarium is longer than wider).

And take care where do you locate the heat mat... it is not likely that your scorpion will "burn" if the heat mat is located under the tank, but higher temperatures increases drastically the metabolism functions... and it can lead your animal to death. Someone here said that you have to provide...

We must remind that mites are arthropods, just as pedes, taht means that the nervous system of both and other physiological process are just the same in these two animals, so, any product that kills mites, can potentially kill other arthropods. The dosage for killing a pede is probably much...

About the milk... centipedes can eat everything that you offer... they will just refuse after taste... for example frogs, they will try to eat them until the venom in frog's skin act, so they'll leave the prey... But in captivity, almost everything you offer they accept. That's a good thing when...

I'm with zonbonzovi, these vibrations usually occurs when the animal is intoxicated by some chemicals. Usually organophosphate. I've already had hundreds of scorpions intoxicated in the clinic with seizures-like symptoms. Usually (not always) the animal recover with proper treatment but...

Thanks for the replies. I'm not expecting accuracy, and it's a hard task to make any extrapolation!!! The invertebrates kept are increasing more and more, and becoming very popular not only for hobbyists, and I think something must be controlled. Not the number of animals, but since people are...

I don't know where can I post this topic... if not here, I'm sorry!!!! I'm searching for some paper that show the numbers of the tarantulas/scorpions/centipedes etc. kept as pets in USA. There's a lot of lists and numbers of mammals in captivity, avian etc etc, but I couldn't find nothing...

This is not an scientific article. None article without scientific background is reliable. Enthusiasts and hobbyists should ignore this sources.... no one will learn about spider from newspaper, unfortunately... if this sources starts to publish right informations, maybe people would stop to...

Almost that... actually I have some papers about hemolymph components with Ca levels in some insects, but nothing about nutrition or the metabolism of calcium in invertebrates.