can u feed a scorp till it bursts

[Sean]

i asked this question in the tarantula forum now im wondering if scorps do this too, eat so much that they burst because i have a small emp that has a huge belly and dosent look like he can eat anything else with out exploding, do scorps stop eating when there stuffed or do they eat untill they can burst

 

[Kugellager]

No...but a very fat and overfed scorp would, like tarantulas, be more susceptable to injury from a fall...though scorps are less likely to fall as they generally they don't climb much...the ones that do climb are the smaller species in general.

John
];')

 

[Botar]

Kug,

Your typing sucks man. I think you need to go to bed or quit typing with your elbows. =D

Botar

 

[Kugellager]

Yeah...no kidding...sitting in my computer/bug room in the dark doesn't help much either.

John
];')

 

[Diao]

It's not a good idea to overfeed your scorpions. They cannot regurgitate, it seems, so stuffing your prized arachnid could possibly result in death. Try and stick to a regiment diet, adjusting as to how fat/skinny your scorpion gets.

 

[skinheaddave]

There has actualy been no convincing proof that you can feed a scorp to death. Granted, they can not regurgitate, but as long as your temps are high enough, they should have no problem with digestion and food rotting etc. They know when they are full, but have evolved to be able to handle a lot of food very infrequently.

Now, this does bring up a tangential point which I have been wondering about for a bit (warning: thread is about to be hijacked). I was watching a TV show and they were talking about this new imaging technology that relies on some kind of particle (can't remember) from a particle accelerator. Regardless, they were using this tech to x-ray insects and were getting really neat results. One thing that was thoroughly unexpected was how active the air passages were. We always have this vision of insect airways as being rigid like straws. Well what they have found in some at least is that there is an active contraction/expansion cycle. In other words, to some degree they are actively breathing. Now, scorpion breathing is very different, but could the same principle apply further? Is there more moving around inside a scorpion than we had previously imagined? If so, might obesity limit the movement? 10:1 they won't get that far in my lifetime.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Godzilla2000]

I'd say feeding a scorpion until they explode is a very bad thing.

 

[Kugellager]

Ummmm...I just thought we said that they don't do that...See...when they have too much food they just stop eating and sometimes go into a bit of a fast period for awhile.

John
];')