Experiment with a Hymiylan Rock Salt lamp?

[DirtyHairytheHarizonensis]

So here's my question, I had a collection of scorpions native to the American SW. I put a Himmalain Rock Salt lamp (HRSL) next to them to see what happened. For those of you that don't know what a HRSL is here's an in depth link:
http://negativeionizers.net/himalayan-salt-lamp-benefits-do-salt-lamps-really-work/
But long story short it's supposed to ionize the air making it more like early earth. We all know the insects and arachnids got way bigger millions of years ago when the earth's atmosphere was greater than 70% oxygen. I was hoping to get them bigger that was my plan. This I what I observed: 1. Eating way more. Seemed like my little scorpions all caught a tapeworm, before the salt lamp I would throw 60 crickets in the enclosure and the last one would be eaten buy the 4th day. But I was throwing 1 cricket in for each scorpion each day (I kept all 3 species together about 50 Hoffmannius spinigerus about 20 Centruroides
sculpturatus and 1 Hadrurus arizonensis) 2. Slight increase in cannibalism. Believe it or not this was never really an issue despite me having my 3 species group encloser (it was a 55 gallon aquarium with plenty of hiding places) until I put the HRSL near them. 3. The most surprising thing I observed was one of my Arizona Bark Scorpions most of the way through with a live Bering. She had more pups than could fit on her back and they were just crawling around in the sand. I'd say close to 10 extra pups. And she ended up eating most of the extras.
Unfortunately I never got to see one molt, appartment management came to do an inspection and saw the 70+ scorpions and were just like yeah you can have all those here, and they let me keep 5. I made the argument that they were here fist because they were all wild caught specimens that were found on the out skirts of town. Smh I just wanted to know your thoughts on this and if you had any experiments to breed/create "super bugs" I'd love to hear.

 

[Patherophis]

- Salt lamps don't work the way described in that link, they don't work at all. Even if they were somehow able to produce negative ions, it wouldn't "make air more like early earth" and wouldn't have effect on animals kept near them.
- To experiment on growth effects You would need to create high oxygen environment for animals, not just add some ions. Experiments on insects shows that results are specimens that are just several % bigger on average compared to ones kept in normal air, so no giant "super bugs".
- Maximal oxygen level in paleozoic was just something over 30 %, not 70 %.
- Do I understand it right that You kept 70 scorpions in one enclosure and that You kept Hadrurus and Centruroides together ?

 

[LeFanDesBugs]

Yeah, the communal part made me giggle a bit

 

[DirtyHairytheHarizonensis]

- Salt lamps don't work the way described in that link, they don't work at all. Even if they were somehow able to produce negative ions, it wouldn't "make air more like early earth" and wouldn't have effect on animals kept near them.
- To experiment on growth effects You would need to create high oxygen environment for animals, not just add some ions. Experiments on insects shows that results are specimens that are just several % bigger on average compared to ones kept in normal air, so no giant "super bugs".
- Maximal oxygen level in paleozoic was just something over 30 %, not 70 %.
- Do I understand it right that You kept 70 scorpions in one enclosure and that You kept Hadrurus and Centruroides together ?

 

[DirtyHairytheHarizonensis]

Okay good to know on the salt lamp but yes I had two wood piles and several rocks and single flat bark pieces as well. I had a bed of substrate consisting of calcium carbonate? Natural sand I picked up at the catch sites and I would throw a couple hand fulls of cocoa fiber every few weeks. my H.arizoneunus would move occasionally and spuraticly to rocks and flat bark and the Centruroides would stick to the wood piles. And you did get the part that this was a 55 gallon reproposed aquarium, the dimensions were 48"L 12"W and 17" H if I recall correctly. They had plenty of space and food, they left each other alone.

 

[DirtyHairytheHarizonensis]

Yeah, the communal part made me giggle a bit

I'm not kidding dude I did it give them enough food and space their fine togther

 

[RTTB]

That’s one very well fed H arizonensis. The P spinigerus would be a continuous good source for it.

 

[obtkeeper]

I've had lots of success with my salt lamp experiences. none of which are animal-related, but still.