my h.arizonensis has been acting weird

[neveragain]

over the last few days. yesterday morning when i turn on the lights it had climbed onto the piece of driftwood i have in the tank and was hanging upside down from it. i had never seen it climb before this. not even to the top of the small piece of corkbark. it also started just digging on one side of teh tank, but it didnt look like it tried to burrow, it was just moving sand around. then this mroning one side of teh tank is like 3 inches lower than normal and it completely filled up its burrow. also, it has just been sitting out in the open all day and night, even when the lights are on.

anything i should be concerned about? or am i just worrying too much like usual?

i tired taking a picture of it hanging upside down on the driftwood, but as i took the picture it lifted itself to the top of it. and in the right of the picture you can see how it cmpletely filled its burrow in, and you can sorta see how it just dug out around the side of the tank.

 

[mostasteless]

It may be a coincidence but mu emp was doing the same things before it had babies, maybe its gravid.
John

 

[Kugellager]

Hadrurus sp are incredible diggers...I have seen mine dig and redig burrows on a constant basis. I would say the digging behavior you are observing is completely normal...not sure about the hanging upside down...a bit odd but scorps can be that way sometimes...

Did you recently put and new items or decorations in the tank? Sometimes when you chsnge their setup even a little bit they may think they have an entire new enclosure. When they think it is new they do the nromal expolration and re-settling period that you will see with any scorpion you re-house.

Thats my guess on the hanging behavior.

John
];')

 

[Poecilotheria]

Man that scorp looks fat! I'd guess its gravid.
Steve

 

[neveragain]

Nope, i havent added or changed anything at all.

i guess i'm just worrying too much like usual.

 

[Diao]

Gravid. My Heterometrus did the same thing a few days before giving birth.

 

[Kugellager]

Hadrurus are notorius cricket hogs and get quite fat when fed regularly in captivity. Every Hadrurus I have owned has been as fat as that or more so . None of them were ever gravid.

John
];')

 

[chau0046]

My H. arizonensis was a very heavy burrower. three different tunnels in a large critter keeper with 4'' of sand . But my cat knocked over its tank the day before his nice big 7" sand cage was ready for him . I was very upset. I found it on its back with its membrane bursted. Covered in cat fur. I dont know if its the fall or the cat. The cat was after a feeder mouse in a cage next to its tank.

Well at least it wasn`t my A. bicolor tank, which cannot be knocked over, unless someone brings a big Rotty in my house er somthn.

Sh*t happens.

Mat

My P. leiosoma seems to be just as much of a burrower , He might take the tank over, but is still pretty small.

 

[Mechanical-Mind]

related topic-

have any of you had trouble with your H. arizonensis molting?? more specifically w/ 1st, 2nd, 3rd instars. i read it was a task. just wanted to hear first hand if someone has found an adequate level of humidity.

thanks,
-matt

 

[Sean]

that is a fat scorp, man i kinda wanna get one if they all get that big and fat

 

[Diao]

Re: related topic-

Originally posted by Mechanical-Mind
have any of you had trouble with your H. arizonensis molting?? more specifically w/ 1st, 2nd, 3rd instars. i read it was a task. just wanted to hear first hand if someone has found an adequate level of humidity.

thanks,
-matt

They are a very hard species to raise to adulthood. Once they become an adult though, they are indestructable.

 

[Cooper]

At leas tthat means you care about your inverts and are intersted in the behavorial(is that right?lol) concerns, maybe she will pop for you! They are supposedly really hard to raise though

 

[neveragain]

Hrm, well now my h.arizonensis has not left its burrow (it redug the one that it filled up when I first posted this) for at least a week. After my lights go out, I have been checking on her and not once did I see it leave its burrow. Of course it could have after I finally go to sleep, but I'm not sure. I keep checking in the burrow with a flashlight to see if its giving birth, but it hasnt.