Please Help! Asian Forest scorplings

[montyquinn]

I aquired my first scorpion about a year and a half ago. I am inexperienced, and trusted the breeder we bought from. We were told it was a male about 4 years old. I just came back from a 4 day vacation and my 'male' afs has what appears to be 6 scorplings attached. We thought he was getting fat, clearly was just gravid. Please give me any and all tips for caring for my new grandscorplings I am in shock and literally dont know how to care for the little ones at all.

The scorpion (Mittens) has been housed alone since we got it, in a 20 gallon tank with under tank heating and around 3/4 inches of packed cocofiber. It is bioactive, with live plants.

 

[Veno Manus]

1st thing is to get the heat mat out from under the tank. Scorpions are borrowers and as intelligent as they look, they arnt smart when it comes to heat. They can potentially cook themselves as they feel nice and toasty. Heat mats should always go on the sides of enclosures. In the hobby the most common scorpion in pets tones is typically a Heterometrus Silenus. All black body and telson. With a picture it's impossible for us to know what you have. As for young, you want to make sure the enclosure isn't extremely cluttered and can be easily managed as you don't want to loose scorpions amongst the enclosure. A mother will carry them for about a week or so untill they molt in the i2 stage and then slowly started wondering off. They will need some time to harden their Exoskeleton to protect themselves from the world. She could potentially drop more slowly so it's ideal to try and keep an eye on her as you obviously now know it's a female. She will be extremely aggressive and will not want to be bothered. You can try to offer her food prekilled to help her curve her appetite. Heterometrus can be pretty cannibalistic and eat their young bit unfortunately it's a part of the life cycle of a scorpion. So don't be alarmed. If she's eating them, there could be a reason or she just is hungry. So try and occupy her with a prekilled meal first and hope dosent grab a young one. You'll eventually want to seperate them after about 2 weeks and keep them in deli cups or critter containers for easy manage cleaning and maintenance. Haveing them all together and you run the risk or cannibalism. You'll also want to be steady on humidity with young so they can stay in the health they require to retain water and also meals. Warm, humid, comfortable. The little ones will need to be fed about 1 to 2 times a week depending on size but it's safe to never over feed. But a fed scorp is a happy scorp. So my rule of thumb with young is if the mesosoma on its back are separated and can see space I'll wait to feed untill they slim down.