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Hi, I've been keeping scorps for nearly a year one.. starting with an H. arizonensis then this summer a P. imperator.. my little female emp is starting to act very weirdly..
I'm writing here because it starts to scare me.. At first she stopped eating, its been 3 months since she didn't eat.. I waited, maybe she was about to molt (I never got a scorp to molt yet, so I don't have much personal informations about it).. but now she's aggressive, she was the one I prefered the more because I could handle her freely.. now almost 90% of the times I try to handle her she tries to sting (yes sting!) when I'm about to take her out of the tank.. it was about 10% of the time before...
I moved her in a new tank (a rubbermaid) she'll get more heat where she is right now.. I moved her yesterday, but I don't think that's the problem.. because she's doing something weirder too.. I handled her this weekend to show her to a friend, and after 5 minutes she started to rub her stinger on her back.. I looked with a magnifying glass and she really doesn't seem to have any mites..
Emps are tough.. I'm not that afraid but I don't know what she have and not to know what she have and if its dangerous or not somewhat scares me..
Thanks, Frank
I'm writing here because it starts to scare me.. At first she stopped eating, its been 3 months since she didn't eat.. I waited, maybe she was about to molt (I never got a scorp to molt yet, so I don't have much personal informations about it).. but now she's aggressive, she was the one I prefered the more because I could handle her freely.. now almost 90% of the times I try to handle her she tries to sting (yes sting!) when I'm about to take her out of the tank.. it was about 10% of the time before...
I moved her in a new tank (a rubbermaid) she'll get more heat where she is right now.. I moved her yesterday, but I don't think that's the problem.. because she's doing something weirder too.. I handled her this weekend to show her to a friend, and after 5 minutes she started to rub her stinger on her back.. I looked with a magnifying glass and she really doesn't seem to have any mites..
Emps are tough.. I'm not that afraid but I don't know what she have and not to know what she have and if its dangerous or not somewhat scares me..
Thanks, Frank