Help! I'am doing something wrong..

[Magician]

My scorp is endless paceing the back of her tank where some light shines over from a fishtank. over and over. She'll go to all four corners of the tank and strech up them like she wants me to hold her . She's ingoreing the Crix in her tank,even if i usher them to her claws.


What am i doing wrong? She has peat moss substrate,a water dish, several logs to hide under, and a hide (I took a t-delicup,little plastic dish,cut a door,and buryed it in the substrate,with the door peeking out. It's her favorite hide.)

 

[VesAn]

Did you just get her? They tend to do that tank climbing behavior a lot when they're introduced to a unfamiliar enclosure recently.

 

[Magician]

Yes

Yes,i brought her home from a larger tank with four other emps, it was a bit more heavy decorated and she was handled lots.

She's really violent about it,twisting her tail out and about on the substrate as she launches herself up into the corners.

 

[VesAn]

Sounds normal, my guy did the exact same thing (using his tail as a level in the substrate and all) when I first got him. Still does that sometime, too.

 

[Black Hawk]

mine does that every so often as well, i wouldn't be concerned. btw, congratz on the emp!

 

[edesign]

shouldn't usually try to feed them right away, I give mine a cricket a couple hours after I put them in their new homes and if they haven't started eating it within 2-3 hours I take the cricket back out and wait. give it a day or two at least to settle in to it's new home and the wall scrambling will probably go on for a week or more

 

[fiveohatch]

mine did that for the first month that i had it. now i only see it doing it every once inawhile. it stays in its hide most of the time now.