AusBugKid
Arachnosquire
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Hi all. I have a Urodacus manicures scorpion, but I've seen this once before in a U. elongatus. It stopped eating a few weeks ago, and I suspected a moult soon. Now it has gotten what I can only describe as clumsy. It holds it's tail up, falls over, scrapes around in the substrate but takes a long time to right itself.
When my U. elongatus got this behaviour it died a week or so later. I have a few other very healthy scorpions from the same genus, who all have moulted in my care, and I can't find any link between this one and the one that got these symptoms before, about a year or so ago.
Housing is a clean (unused) food container, with air holes, a mix of sand and cocoa substrate. It had sphagnum moss for humidity until recently, but once I noticed symptoms I moved it into a new container with fresh substrate, to remove any concerns of mould. That rehouse was about 3 days ago, and there have been no changes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't find much on similar behaviour on AB or elsewhere. Thanks in advance.
When my U. elongatus got this behaviour it died a week or so later. I have a few other very healthy scorpions from the same genus, who all have moulted in my care, and I can't find any link between this one and the one that got these symptoms before, about a year or so ago.
Housing is a clean (unused) food container, with air holes, a mix of sand and cocoa substrate. It had sphagnum moss for humidity until recently, but once I noticed symptoms I moved it into a new container with fresh substrate, to remove any concerns of mould. That rehouse was about 3 days ago, and there have been no changes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't find much on similar behaviour on AB or elsewhere. Thanks in advance.