I can't speak to health advantages for scorpions, although I can say that crickets are all tarantulas ever need. That said, there is an entertainment value in feeding something as incredibly juicy as a hornworm to many a creature..I'd imagine it'd be a show with those guys, too...
It's already being overfed. Unless it's a tiny sling you should be feeding it much less.
1-3 crickets a week is too much? Would just 1 cut it?
Unless it's a baby, I feed mine one cricket a month or less depending on the size of the cricket.
Really? I didn’t know that. My scorp is very big (little over 5”, give or take, when I attempted to measure him last) but was sold as a sub adult. So if you were in my position, a cricket a month would be fine?
If it's a good sized cricket then sure. If they're on the smaller side give it two. Also a superworm now and again is good for variety and some extra oomph.
Someone on here said something about superworms carrying a virus currently or something? I can't remember who said but it was on here recently, I don't know if theres any truth to that but its enough for my paranoid ass to steer clear of them lol for now
Just think of how the AFS lives in the wild. Take the two I dealt with yesterday. Buried deep in the ground quite some distance, about 30 feet of paved driveway, from bio-active detritus. Their natural state is a torpor like condition, every now and then digging themselves out, feeding, then back into hiding safe from predators. So in all likelihood most of their feeding is accidental opportunity of an earthworm that gets too close to where they are hiding. Once every couple of weeks? Maybe a month?
The natural world is brutal, and this is likely the reality.
Well, take into account the habits acquired and passed on through countless generations. Natural adaptation. Birds are a scorps deadliest enemies. Diurnal and nocturnal hunters, both predators and omnivores. Above ground at any time the AFS is running a perilous gauntlet. Thus I often find keepers of these scorps rather revolting, wanting their animals to be on display. The ones that are are anomalies. Unnatural domesticated entertainments as far removed from their reality as a toy poodle is from it's ancestral canine. Their natural adaptations, traits, severely suppressed.
I completely agree, and I know alot of people will not understand your perspective but I do. The revolting kind of people who put bright UV bulbs above their scorpion enclosure, or who make a brightly lit ASF tank to be a center piece in their tattoo parlor. As if these animals exist for our amusement.
Observing animals in situ is the major way of coming to understand them. In turn understanding them lends to our greater understanding which in turns leads us toward grasping the natural balance.
If this lacey thing passes that's exactly what will happen. None of us will have anything after a decade or so.
Why is it the more you feed the quicker it dies? Also I have a communal of 6 scorpions and I feed it every 2-3 or every week, I just drop 1 or 2 and take or leave. If they dont eat I usually leave it in their to tomorrow and if they dont eat I take it out.
I don't know what you're referring to on quicker it dies if you feed more. I didn't write that. I don't feed any of my inverts on any kind of schedule I just know I average once a month or so based on my anecdotal thinking of when I do it. Could be more, could be less. I don't keep track. I only have one or two specimens that look overfed.
I said that because the more often you feed, it speeds up their metabolism, making them molt more, sometimes to an unhealthy degree especially when theyre young. Making them more quickly reach the end of their life. They don't need to be fed often, once a week is fine and even that is being quite generous. Like the other guy said he only feeds once a month.
Sorry I quoted the wrong person but its ok.