aarachnid
Arachnoknight
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- Aug 13, 2019
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This summer, my boyfriend impulsively got a female P imperator at an expo and left it with me. I used the guide pinned here to move her into a nice 10 gallon setup. She has plenty of moist substrate to dig in, a hide that she uses a lot, a big water dish she periodically will sit in, and springtails to keep her enclosure nice. She is normally very docile and quiet, but sometimes she bangs on her tank very loudly with her claws for a few minutes at a time. I don’t mind it if that’s just what scorpions do, but I wanted to make sure it’s not an indicator of her being stressed out/something being wrong with her enclosure. The only time I can think of an outside stimulus making her bang is on NYE with the fireworks, but she was also practically trying to climb out of her enclosure, so it wasn’t like her normal banging at all.
Also, I brought up in a Fb group that I think she’s wild caught because she’s quite large and was only $25 (I’m also scared she might be gravid, I’m not sure when I can stop worrying about that). I was sort of condescended to — why would I think that, it’s illegal to import them! But am I right in thinking that WC stuff gets imported all the time? I can’t find any other scorpions her size for under $50 online.
Also, I brought up in a Fb group that I think she’s wild caught because she’s quite large and was only $25 (I’m also scared she might be gravid, I’m not sure when I can stop worrying about that). I was sort of condescended to — why would I think that, it’s illegal to import them! But am I right in thinking that WC stuff gets imported all the time? I can’t find any other scorpions her size for under $50 online.