So I got a teeny scorpling in November, Cheloctonus intermedius. Barely half an inch long, very vigorous, good eater. I try not to disturb him very often unless he needs a feed or a mist as he definitely does not appreciate me checking on him under his bark hide.
I last fed him between 10 and 14 days ago and he happily took the food (soldier fly larva). He still looked fairly sausagey at the time and appeared in good health. I saw his teeny angry claws poking out from under his hide about a week ago.
I went to check on him today and give him a mist and a grub, and he wasn't under his bark hide. Nor was he anywhere on his bark hide (he seems to like to be upside down). I figure ok, maybe he's on his fake plant, or in the moss pad. Nothing.
I very carefully dug through all of his soil, nothing. I ended up taking every single crumb of soil out of his enclosure and sifted through it with a blacklight. I tore the moss pad apart, nothing in there. There are no crevices in the bark hide that he could squeeze into. Went over absolutely everything with a blacklight and no sign of either him, or parts of him if he somehow died and began to decompose.
I am at an absolute loss. His enclosure is one of those little glass "custom aquaria" boxes, with the glass lid that lifts off. There are a couple of very tiny gaps at the top that he could potentially fit through IF he had the urge to go mountaineering, but I had thought that they couldnt climb glass? His fake leaf, which I have seen him climb on before does touch the glass ledge that the lid sits on, but the lid lies flush against the ledge so he wouldnt be able to climb on it. But seeing as he has hides, food and moisture in the bottom of the enclosure, I can't understand why he would even want to climb into the "sky" and out into nothing. And that's IF he could climb sheer glass, which I thought they couldn't.
Aside from somehow magically teleporting through glass, my only other thought is that he has for some reason died and decomposed. I had read that they still fluoresce under blacklight even if dead, and there was no sign at all of anything that glowed his green glowy colour.
How quickly could he rot into untraceable nothingness, if he had somehow died?
Feeling very sad
I last fed him between 10 and 14 days ago and he happily took the food (soldier fly larva). He still looked fairly sausagey at the time and appeared in good health. I saw his teeny angry claws poking out from under his hide about a week ago.
I went to check on him today and give him a mist and a grub, and he wasn't under his bark hide. Nor was he anywhere on his bark hide (he seems to like to be upside down). I figure ok, maybe he's on his fake plant, or in the moss pad. Nothing.
I very carefully dug through all of his soil, nothing. I ended up taking every single crumb of soil out of his enclosure and sifted through it with a blacklight. I tore the moss pad apart, nothing in there. There are no crevices in the bark hide that he could squeeze into. Went over absolutely everything with a blacklight and no sign of either him, or parts of him if he somehow died and began to decompose.
I am at an absolute loss. His enclosure is one of those little glass "custom aquaria" boxes, with the glass lid that lifts off. There are a couple of very tiny gaps at the top that he could potentially fit through IF he had the urge to go mountaineering, but I had thought that they couldnt climb glass? His fake leaf, which I have seen him climb on before does touch the glass ledge that the lid sits on, but the lid lies flush against the ledge so he wouldnt be able to climb on it. But seeing as he has hides, food and moisture in the bottom of the enclosure, I can't understand why he would even want to climb into the "sky" and out into nothing. And that's IF he could climb sheer glass, which I thought they couldn't.
Aside from somehow magically teleporting through glass, my only other thought is that he has for some reason died and decomposed. I had read that they still fluoresce under blacklight even if dead, and there was no sign at all of anything that glowed his green glowy colour.
How quickly could he rot into untraceable nothingness, if he had somehow died?
Feeling very sad
