Mom eating her scorplings

[aendi]

My H. spinifer (Leonardo da Pinci) unexpectedly gave birth, which is really exciting! I've been following advice from a bunch of sources online, but most notably this one: https://backwaterreptilesblog.com/care-baby-scorpions/. My count yesterday was 18/19 babies, but today I counted and there were only 14/15. I don't know why she would be eating her kids; the tank has good humidity, the temperature is good, I'm offering her food every day so she's not hungry, and her enclosure is in a room that isn't disturbed at all, so she shouldn't be stressed. Its only been a couple of days so I'm worried that she's going to eat them all. What should I do?

 

[Dr SkyTower]

best thing to do is keep an eye on her but try not to disturb her. You could check out this thread on care for mother asian forest scorpions and their babies, it has a load of info:

Bought a scorpion, it had babies, now what?

On May 6th I bought a scorpion, the lady I bought it from told me it could live in this deli cup it's entire life and be fine as long as I kept the substrate moist and fed it crickets every other week. She told me it's an Asian Forest Scorpion. I know I don't want to keep it in this deli cup...

arachnoboards.com

 

[SonsofArachne]

Leonardo da Pinci

No advise, but that name -