Could you house an old world T and a heterometrus scorpion together?

[Joen4]

I think I know the answer to that one, but any reflection on what would probably go wrong? I have a big and pretty setup for them but I know it is hardly a good idea.I have a tank housing a timor monitor and another having a bush viper. Both live happily together together with big peaceful millipedes, a swarm of isopods and some pretty and fast cockroaches they both leave alone, that is why the idea came to me. I have several scorpions and would now like to try an old world or a suntiger. Big fan of "Dave's Little Beasties".

 

[fcat]

How do snakes detect their prey?

How do tarantulas detect their prey?

What do scorpions eat? How do they immobilize their prey? How do they defend themselves?

 

[Mustafa67]

I think I know the answer to that one, but any reflection on what would probably go wrong? I have a big and pretty setup for them but I know it is hardly a good idea.I have a tank housing a timor monitor and another having a bush viper. Both live happily together together with big peaceful millipedes, a swarm of isopods and some pretty and fast cockroaches they both leave alone, that is why the idea came to me. I have several scorpions and would now like to try an old world or a suntiger. Big fan of "Dave's Little Beasties".

NO

 

[Ramen]

I'd say HECK NO!

 

[viper69]

Nooooooo

 

[NMTs]

any reflection on what would probably go wrong?

One of them will eat the other one.

 

[Matt Man]

I'm gonna put 2 apex predators together....what could go wrong

 

[Alveus]

Both live happily together together with big peaceful millipedes, a swarm of isopods and some pretty and fast cockroaches they both leave alone,

The thing is a bush vipar and a millipede doesn't share the same ecological niche. Nore do they prey on each other. = no competition.

A tarantula and a scorpion share the exact same ecological niche and both are opportunistic hunters. So the competition is really high and if they meet, they would fight.

So if you can build a setup where they will never meet... yes it could work.
Does it make any sense to build a giant enclosure for one scorpion and one tarantula? Absolutly not.

 

[Matt Man]

The thing is a bush vipar and a millipede doesn't share the same ecological niche. Nore do they prey on each other. = no competition.

A tarantula and a scorpion share the exact same ecological niche and both are opportunistic hunters. So the competition is really high and if they meet, they would fight.

So if you can build a setup where they will never meet... yes it could work.
Does it make any sense to build a giant enclosure for one scorpion and one tarantula? Absolutly not.

like perhaps an arboreal T and a Scorp on the floor, but still arboreal Ts wander and you have opportunity for encounter

 

[NMTs]

like perhaps an arboreal T and a Scorp on the floor, but still arboreal Ts wander and you have opportunity for encounter

That dark den guy on youtube attempted this with a pinktoe and a Theraphosa species. Eventually the pinktoe disappeared and the Theraphosa was fatter...

 

[Alveus]

like perhaps an arboreal T and a Scorp on the floor, but still arboreal Ts wander and you have opportunity for encounter

It depends. In a 40x40cm exoterra... it will fail definitly. In a 4x4m zoo enclosure. It could work but still... If they meet, they'll fight.

But still why?
Lets just say, you could try it in a 100x100×50cm tank with a 50/50 chance that it might work.
It would be a lot of effort and money for a 50/50 chance. And it would take the space of 4-9 enclosures.

 

[TenebrisAvicularia]

If they encountered each other, you'd end up with an injured or dead T or scorpion. Probably both taking potentially fatal wounds.