Centruroides sp. (was: I love it when things warm up)

[Kugellager]

Scorpions apparrently like them (pill bugs) as food. I have put them in some of my enclosures with some of the smaller scorpions and they are gone pretty quickly. All the you see left are the segments of their carapaces...which by the way glow a little under the blacklight...its a whitish-blue color.

John
];')

 

[Mr. X]

How small are you talking about, when you're saying my smaller scorpions

Thanx, Xavier

 

[Kugellager]

In my frame of reference I consider scorpions under about 2.5 inches(6cm) from mouth to telson to be small...

John
];')

 

[Mr. X]

Ok good, so i can fed my A.bicolor with those but the only problem is the desert conditions. Do you think it might be possible?? Cause it would be greath, where i live there's pill bugs everywhere.

thanx

 

[Nikos]

Scorpions apparrently like them (pill bugs) as food. I have put them in some of my enclosures with some of the smaller scorpions and they are gone pretty quickly. All the you see left are the segments of their carapaces...which by the way glow a little under the blacklight...its a whitish-blue color.

John
];')

Indeed they are eaten by my hadrurus arizonensis but none of the lychas mucronatus and mesobuthus martensii likes them.

John which scorpion species ate them?

I think it is the desert species that can eat them. I'm waiting some desert species this week (androctonus/hottentotta) and I'll try the pill bugs with them too.

I have also noticed some pill bugs climbing on the scorps and "possibly" eating something.....could it be mites or feces?

 

[G. Carnell]

hey, just a warning, they cant survive AT ALL in dry conditions.
if you put them in an arid tank, they will die within the day you put them in.

i feed them to euscorpius spp- 4cm ~~

 

[Kugellager]

John which scorpion species ate them?

Um....the species I have botherd to collect them for and feed them to were 3r instar Grosphus flaviopiceus and V.coahuilae...the G.flavopiceus is definitely not a desert species and the V.coahuilae definitely is...The pill bugs usually require moist conditions...I can find tons of them in my compost pile and under the wood chips in my flower beds...but...too time consuming...plus I would probably end up weeding instead of collecting pill bugs

John
];')

 

[G. Carnell]

hey john,
so youve had grosphus spp go through their second moult? or did you buy them as 3rd instar?
im asking because some people have told me that its very hard to get grosphus through to 3rd instar, as most die or just dont moult...
kinda scared as ive got some 2nd instars

 

[Kugellager]

I bought them at what I thought was 3rd instar...was very unexperienbced with babies at the time and crickets killed two just after they molted...one drowned in water dish...basically I blew it due to lack of experience at the time. They would have done fine if I knew what I knew now.

John
];')

 

[skinheaddave]

What we have here is a good example of why common names suck. I was always under the impression that the ones that rolled into balls were pillbugs, the ones that didn't were sowbugs. Then one considers that some people seem to call some isopods "pillbugs" whereas others reserve that for the myriopods. Apparently some people also call either the myriopods or isopods "wood lice," a name also used for the much smaller organisms John is refering too.

Cheers,
Dave