Incest is best.

[PIter]

Do scorpons care weather their mate is their brother or sister? Does innbreeding effect scorpions? Does it happen in the wild?

 

[alex]

In the wild, only 1% of all scorpions reach adulthood. Inbreeding gets difficult with this number of survivers.

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

I´ve mated relatives several times (brothers and sisters and males of one offspring with the mother) and I´ve seen no effect on the brood.

Greetings
Alex

 

[PIter]

But do they seem reluctant to, get it on?

 

[JacenBeers]

It kinda bothers me that you are breeding children with their mothers.

 

[PIter]

Havent breed anything.

 

[Stormcrow]

Most serious breeders will label each animal and catagorize them by record keeping and to prevent interbreeding.

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

I see nothing wrong in interbreeding of invertebrates if there are no negative effects (for example in mantids it can cause problems so I wouldn´t do it). In my opinion you cannot apply terms of ethic to invertebrates that way.

For instance if you are keeping a very rare species of which you are having only a few specimens it´s the only way. An example would be that you bought a gravid wc female and only a few scorpions of the brood survived. Interbreeding is the only chance to keep a steady population. I observed no difference in the mating behaviour of relatives in comparison to non-relatives. Furtheron the broods are having the same sizes and those out of interbreeding are not less healthy. By the way, I´m labeling and catorizing each of my scorpions as well.

Greetings
Alex

 

[R.F]

Hi,

I see nothing wrong in interbreeding of invertebrates if there are no negative effects (for example in mantids it can cause problems so I wouldn´t do it). In my opinion you cannot apply terms of ethic to invertebrates that way.

For instance if you are keeping a very rare species of which you are having only a few specimens it´s the only way. An example would be that you bought a gravid wc female and only a few scorpions of the brood survived. Interbreeding is the only chance to keep a steady population. I observed no difference in the mating behaviour of relatives in comparison to non-relatives. Furtheron the broods are having the same sizes and those out of interbreeding are not less healthy. By the way, I´m labeling and catorizing each of my scorpions as well.

Greetings
Alex

Very indeed..but as with speciments that are easy to get like Androctonus australis i always take speciments from another shipment..