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Hey,
my emperor scorpion is behaving a little strange.
First thing is, she's pregnant, that's at least what I think because she has grown so fat.
I'm keeping emps for many years now but i've never seen any of them do that...
For the last two days she is outside her hide near the light spot from a bulb which i use for heating. Today she's often pressing herself to the ground, that's how it looks, as well as pressing the telson into the substrate besides her body. And she moves the end of the mesosoma from left to right and up and down a little bit. And she's put her chelicerae all the way out. If they walk around usually I can see only the end of them.
If I talked in a humanized way about it, I would describe her behaviour as if she was in pain...
Yesterday I tried to feed her. She grabbed the roach and stinged it (!) which i have never seen doing any of my emps before. She keeped it in her claw for some time but didn't eat it. After a couple of minutes she let it go...
Has anyone seen something like that before?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
my emperor scorpion is behaving a little strange.
First thing is, she's pregnant, that's at least what I think because she has grown so fat.
I'm keeping emps for many years now but i've never seen any of them do that...
For the last two days she is outside her hide near the light spot from a bulb which i use for heating. Today she's often pressing herself to the ground, that's how it looks, as well as pressing the telson into the substrate besides her body. And she moves the end of the mesosoma from left to right and up and down a little bit. And she's put her chelicerae all the way out. If they walk around usually I can see only the end of them.
If I talked in a humanized way about it, I would describe her behaviour as if she was in pain...
Yesterday I tried to feed her. She grabbed the roach and stinged it (!) which i have never seen doing any of my emps before. She keeped it in her claw for some time but didn't eat it. After a couple of minutes she let it go...
Has anyone seen something like that before?
Thanks in advance,
Chris