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Hi all..
Got my Emperor baby today, 1 inch, dark-purplish, and this is what I did substrate wise;
I have used a mix of 75% coconut bark with jungle-mix 25% and I use a Pet Pal second smallest and at one end I put a small cheramic pot, I dugged it down so it formed a half-moon shaped cave and I didn't put it all the way to wall, i.e. so there was a little space between the pot and the wall so the hole in the bottom of the pot work like "back-door".
Well,, the scorp'ling went thruu the hole and stayed between the pot and the wall. The hole of the pot is below surface level so to speak, so the scorp'ling is kinda "underground", but still totally visible from the outside and the scorp'ling still get the benefit of the moist soil around the pot.
I found a smaller cricket and I dropped it in and the cricket ran into the cave and I saw how the scorp'ling reacted to that there was movement and she started to move back into the cave from the hole and wham!!! the cricket was "no-more".
That pot will work like a food trap for the scorp'ling.
Now it's just to keep the moist up and I do use my humidifier since I have my Avics in there as well and when the humidifier is on the humidity rises 10 - 15% easy in the room within an hour, beside the misting in the cage.
Finally a question; How is the growth rate for an 1 inch emperor during the first year? Is it also dependent on feeding rate and so on??
Kenny
Got my Emperor baby today, 1 inch, dark-purplish, and this is what I did substrate wise;
I have used a mix of 75% coconut bark with jungle-mix 25% and I use a Pet Pal second smallest and at one end I put a small cheramic pot, I dugged it down so it formed a half-moon shaped cave and I didn't put it all the way to wall, i.e. so there was a little space between the pot and the wall so the hole in the bottom of the pot work like "back-door".
Well,, the scorp'ling went thruu the hole and stayed between the pot and the wall. The hole of the pot is below surface level so to speak, so the scorp'ling is kinda "underground", but still totally visible from the outside and the scorp'ling still get the benefit of the moist soil around the pot.
I found a smaller cricket and I dropped it in and the cricket ran into the cave and I saw how the scorp'ling reacted to that there was movement and she started to move back into the cave from the hole and wham!!! the cricket was "no-more".
That pot will work like a food trap for the scorp'ling.
Now it's just to keep the moist up and I do use my humidifier since I have my Avics in there as well and when the humidifier is on the humidity rises 10 - 15% easy in the room within an hour, beside the misting in the cage.
Finally a question; How is the growth rate for an 1 inch emperor during the first year? Is it also dependent on feeding rate and so on??
Kenny
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