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It's not unusual for scorpions you just got not to eat for a while, but other than that if they don't eat something that you've seen them eat before and you leave it in there for a day or so, they're probably fasting. Keep trying to feed them every week or so, but remove the food after a day or...

I haven't seen a scorpion eat anything that had been dead for a long time, but I have seen them eat crickets that had just died. Some will eat dead food, and others seem to just ignore it even if they're hungry. The ones who won't are not necessarily fasting.

Thanks Brian, again it's good information, and I'll read the entire thread later tonight when I have time, but just from quickly looking through it I didn't see anything that would answer my most important question: What do I need to do for babies who will either be just off of their mother...

Thanks, that is a good care sheet and it answers some of my questions, however it doesn't really address my specific concerns about leaving them alone for over a week at this stage. How fragile are the babies? Will they dry out and die easily if the water runs out while I'm gone? If they...

Last night I checked on my B. jacksoni and found that she was covered with babies! :D Unfortunately I now have 2 problems. First, I don't have a good care sheet for B. jacksoni babies. Are they very sensitive to too little (or too much) humidity? High/low temperatures? I hear they can...

There is always some fear of cannibalism, but in my (limited) experience and from what I've read, as long as you keep them well fed they're not likely to cannibalize. I have 2 groups of 3 (2I and 4-5I) each in 5.5g tanks, and although they have a lot of room, in both cases all 3 have been...

I guess when I tried it before I must just have used too much water because it was nowhere near dry in 3 days or even 3 weeks... :( I mean I got the surface dry eventually, but as they burrowed down against the glass I could see that it was still pretty damp down below... I'll see if I can...

Increasing the depth won't help if it's still just loose sand, and he may not know how to make a good substrate for burrowing. We really need some better advice on how to make deep, dry, burrowable substrate, so if anyone has some advice, please give it! Except for a 5.5g with a couple of...

They may not have much of a memory, but when you say that they "'adapt' but not 'remember'", what do you think they're doing to adapt? They may not have the same kinds of memories we do, but how do you adapt without having some kind of memory to store at least something about your previous...

If you did put a mature female in with him then either they would mate, one would get eaten (probably the male if the female wasn't interested in mating with him), or possibly both. You said you don't want babies right now, but you do still have the option of giving/loaning/selling him to...

Conditioning requires at least some memory. If you couldn't remember anything then all conditioning would be immediately lost. As for different behaviors being instinctual, I think that the basics are too, but I disagree with the idea that they are unchangeable. If your slings get better at...

I assume you just mean regular tanks and not the cheap little plastic things and you're not looking for real glass? I think that most of the 5.5g tanks I've seen are plexiglass (acrylic), but if you don't specifically want real glass for some reason then you probably wouldn't know the...

I have a *lot* of them and (other than scorplings just off of their mother's back who can easily dry out if there's not a water source around) they don't seem very fragile to me.

When I was stung by a scorpion (a Centruroides exilicauda which was living in my apartment and sitting on my pants when I picked them up, before I started keeping them), the poison control people told me to put ice on it to help with the pain and not do much else, but I saw the director of some...

I looked it up and the bag that I saw looked fine. They may have other versions that have something else added, but if the bag doesn't list ingredients showing something other than peat moss and doesn't say it's "enriched" or any crap like that, it should be fine. The bag I saw said that it...

I don't know the details, but I've heard that fruit flies are missing something important for the development of scorplings. Whatever's missing may have stopped them from molting successfully, so you might want to feed them a varied diet. Some fruit flies should be okay, but mix it up with...

P. blimp is even cooler! They're a metallic silver color and when they're gravid they fill with hydrogen and float up off the ground to protect their young! {D Due to a high incidence of SSC (Spotaneous Scorpion Combustion) though, some populations have begun producing helium which is less...

I actually found a couple of small pieces of slate at a nursery yesterday that they had left over from building some kind of a fountain thing, so I'll wash that off and give it a shot. They charged me a whole $1.35 total for several pieces of an appropriate size for my tanks. That beats the...

Since my room temperature is high enough I haven't needed heat pads or anything, but I'm guessing that they would do more good lower down where they could heat up the substrate around them too, wouldn't they? Other than that, I think you should probably add some more substrate like you were...

Thanks, maybe the problem with the rock I used before is that it wasn't quite level, or just not quite smooth enough, and I bet the problem with this piece of cardboard is that it's too flimsy and probably doesn't stay flat (especially now that they've dug under it and put sand over some of it)...