I got introduced into the hobby inadvertantly...I went to a reptile show last year October 06 to pick up a scorpion to add to my collection and got a tiny B. vagans sling the size of a rolled up booger as a freebie. That got the bug started and I'm now up to 21 and growing...
I feed crushed dog food (free range, but that likely makes no difference) and fresh produce - apples, carrots, banana, potato, lettuce or whatever's lying around. Fresh water is also available at all times.
^ I agree w/ talkenlate04, my Brachy slings (vegans, albopilosum, smithi) are kept on slightly moist peat on one side of their vial and all are molting and eating. Give that a try and like mentioned if your enclosure is too big try keeping it in a smaller container, diameter preferably not...
Mine was a tiny B. vagans sling that came free with the purchase of an M. martensii scorpion back in mid-November 2006 at a local reptile show. That got the bug started and I'm now up to 21 :)
My little B. vagans sling (about 1 cm) closed up it's burrow for at least 2 weeks and just recently emerged freshly molted. I wasn't sure if it was dead or not but gave it a chance to do it's thing and everything worked out. I just made sure the substrate was ever so slightly moist. Yours is...
Welcome to the hobby - just make sure you have at least a shelf all cleared out because I promise you it won't be your last:razz: . I got my first T last month as a freebie when I bought a scorpion to add to my collection at the reptile show up here and I'm now up to 5 T's. I've already...
Definitely looks like a good system, now your scorplings won't be as disturbed when you need to moisten up their environment a little - good job Dom!:clap:
You say you have approximately 100 in your collection? Wow, maybe one day the 2 that I have will someday expand to the size of your...
When you refer to black lamps aren't you refering to the UV lights that cause things to fluoresce and not the black incandescent light bulbs? I contacted Exo Terra about their "Night Glo" bulb and they specifically stated that it emits no harmful UV rays.
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