Is this normal behavior?

[moonwebdancer]

My Pandinus Imperator is acting strange. I posted a picture of him drinking out of his water dish. Later he turned the dish into a toilet. Then I changed the water dish which he liked, but after a month he buried the dish. Is this behavior normal?:? Another thing about my scorpion is he has been in molt now for almost a month and still wants to eat. Again, is this normal. Anyone out there with a P. Imperator and has experienced these traits please tell me that this is normal. Thank you in advance for any and all input.
moonwebdancer

 

[scorpionmom]

My Pandinus Imperator is acting strange. I posted a picture of him drinking out of his water dish. Later he turned the dish into a toilet. Then I changed the water dish which he liked, but after a month he buried the dish. Is this behavior normal?:? Another thing about my scorpion is he has been in molt now for almost a month and still wants to eat. Again, is this normal. Anyone out there with a P. Imperator and has experienced these traits please tell me that this is normal. Thank you in advance for any and all input.
moonwebdancer

I do not have emperors, but I can try to help. I think it is normal that he used it as a "toilet". Just clean it out regularly. Now burying the dish is a little bit harder to explain. There could be several possible reasons. One is that it is too high out of the substrate for him/her, and it buried it so it is easier to drink, or two, the cage is two wet or dry. I don't know how he could be in a molt for a month unless he is in pre-molt, and then, yes, I think it would still be normal for him to be "hungry". I tried to help.

 

[scorpguy]

I dont think its strange that he buried his water dish I have several emps and almost all of them dig extensive burrows, when they do this they move lot of substrate around. The substrate has to go somewhere, sometimes that place is right in/on the water dish. I wouldnt worry about it, just clean it out and refill it.

 

[llamastick]

Yeah, he probably didn't intentionally bury it.

I just use smalls deli-cups, mostly filled with gravel and mostly buried, for water dishes. Too heavy for them to move and no danger of drowning.

 

[Matthew Criss]

Yes.. Normal. It could have buried it while trying to burrow into the substrate.

 

[moonwebdancer]

Thank you scorpionmom, you may be right that he's in pre-molt. This is the first success I've had with an Emperor. so I'm not used to this behavior. I am aware that they like to burrow. He also likes to take crickets from my hand and will grab the end of my finger and gently squeeze. His way of saying thank you I guess.

---------- Post added at 11:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 PM ----------

Yeah, he probably didn't intentionally bury it.

I just use smalls deli-cups, mostly filled with gravel and mostly buried, for water dishes. Too heavy for them to move and no danger of drowning.

Thanks for the suggestion about the small deli cup! I'm not sure about him intentionally burying his dish, but he sure likes to re-arrange his enclosure.