bugloversami
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Hey, everyone. I've been keeping invertebrates for about 2 years now and this morning, I checked on my cages and it looks like my Asian Rainforest Scorpion passed away. I had an Emperor Scorpion pass away around a year ago and I want to find out what the problem is before I decide if I should get another one.
Both scorpions lived in the same cage (a vertical 20-gallon Exo Terra tank) that I got from someone when I bought the Emperor. It has a substrate (4ish/5 inches), then this kinda dried Spanish moss on the top (which can be moved and they can dig if they want.) Temp was normal (sometimes it was a little hot/cold but nothing major and it was for a short time), the humidity got a little dry sometimes if I didn't spray that day but I always made sure the water bowl had water. The water bowl was thin, sometimes she would throw the "moss" in it and I'd have to get it out. There was half log hide and some fake plants around it (I took them off the wall since they would climb up and fall sometimes.) No mold or fungus that I could see but sometimes there would be poop on the sides of the glass. Diet was Dubia roaches (I switched from crickets after the Emperor died since I thought it could be disease/parasite) and Forest didn't eat too often maybe twice a month? I'd offered once a week and she usually refused so I moved to longer. And the roaches got fed fresh veggies, sometimes oatmeal. I also had her for a year and a half with no molt.
That's kinda a run down, let me know if I missed/messed up anything. Question from this: I noticed the Dubias started to eat their egg carton some, it was paper and I read they could digest it but could this be the cause? Although, the first scorpion had crickets and they only nibbled on the end a bit, not enough to eat it really. Both scorpions started laying in their water dish a lot before they died but as I said, I usually misted it so I'm not sure why besides bathing, which I saw them do. Also, both scorpions were from a previous owner so there was a chance that they were older. I'm pretty sad about this and I don't want to make another mistake. Thank you.
Both scorpions lived in the same cage (a vertical 20-gallon Exo Terra tank) that I got from someone when I bought the Emperor. It has a substrate (4ish/5 inches), then this kinda dried Spanish moss on the top (which can be moved and they can dig if they want.) Temp was normal (sometimes it was a little hot/cold but nothing major and it was for a short time), the humidity got a little dry sometimes if I didn't spray that day but I always made sure the water bowl had water. The water bowl was thin, sometimes she would throw the "moss" in it and I'd have to get it out. There was half log hide and some fake plants around it (I took them off the wall since they would climb up and fall sometimes.) No mold or fungus that I could see but sometimes there would be poop on the sides of the glass. Diet was Dubia roaches (I switched from crickets after the Emperor died since I thought it could be disease/parasite) and Forest didn't eat too often maybe twice a month? I'd offered once a week and she usually refused so I moved to longer. And the roaches got fed fresh veggies, sometimes oatmeal. I also had her for a year and a half with no molt.
That's kinda a run down, let me know if I missed/messed up anything. Question from this: I noticed the Dubias started to eat their egg carton some, it was paper and I read they could digest it but could this be the cause? Although, the first scorpion had crickets and they only nibbled on the end a bit, not enough to eat it really. Both scorpions started laying in their water dish a lot before they died but as I said, I usually misted it so I'm not sure why besides bathing, which I saw them do. Also, both scorpions were from a previous owner so there was a chance that they were older. I'm pretty sad about this and I don't want to make another mistake. Thank you.