How to move an agressive scorpion?

[Vilurum]

So guys I have myself the cutest flat rock scorpion but she is ever so agressive and it becomes a fight between the paint brush and her when trying to move her.

I will gently nudge the back off her and she will turn and start pinching and stinging the brush I am being as gentle as possible but due to the time it takes to move her even an inch I am sure she gets very stressed so what would you suggest?

Thanks.

Edit: Ah sorry guys I posted this in the wrong section can it be moved please?

 

[Michiel]

You can buy a pair of tweezers (forceps). When you grab her by the second metasomal (='tail') segment, counted from the body, you can put her in another enclosure. You might want to find out more about this method, if you have never done it before. Some popular books suggest grabbing a scorpion by the fifth (and last) metasomal segment, but this method has more room for error, because most scorpions will swing back and forth when grabbed this way, and if your grip is not firm enough, the scorpion will pry itself loose, or even 'catapult' itself out of the tweezers. They are not able to do this when correctly grabbed at the second metasomal segment.

 

[Mathayus]

+1

Also, I am always afraid that if I grab my male H. paucidens by segment V that he'll end up freaking out and causing himself harm. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but their metasomas just look really fragile I'm a big fan of the "scoot scorp into deli cup by pushing it there with big forceps" because not all my scorpions are as nice as my M. martensii

 

[Vilurum]

I have a pair of long stainless steel tweezers, would this not hurt the scorpion though?

I'd be afraid I would put too much pressure when doing that :/

 

[Alexandra V]

If you don't fully trust yourself with the tweezer grab method, then maybe you could try just getting an empty deli cup over her and sliding some cardboard underneath (carefully) and moving her like that?

 

[Michiel]

I always work with tweezers and plastic deli cups or jam glasses or something. This works great. I've been keeping scorpions for 18 years now and I have never been stung.

 

[catfishrod69]

everyone is right when i moved my male and female flatrocks, the tweezers worked great, although my male i was able to pick up by hand, untill his last molt, he became aggressive...but yea the tweezer method is good..just be careful not to hurt the scorp, or let it hurt you...unless there is a way you can remove most of the substrate or whatever you have in with her, and gently tilt her enclosure into the new one touching it to the bottom, and then coax her out with a paintbrush or straw...also works, but they will try very hard not to leave the home they have already established..good luck