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is it ok if sand gets stuck to the scorpions legs? Cause my scorpions tank fogs up and the scorpion trys to climb up the glass and get water on its legs is there any way to prevent this?
its a australian desert scopion urodacus yaschenkoi and this guy called mark newton (he is an expert on australian scorpions) told me i should put 20ml of water into every 1kg/2.7lbs of sand i have in the tanki bet desert type dont need water, btw. what scorp are you keeping?
well how long do you think the sand would have stay on the scorpion fot it to be an issueI dont think it will do much damage in the short term.. perhaps if it wasa like that for an extended period of time it could be an issue.
but my scorpion comes from the middle of australia which is all desertI've read if you put a non desert scorpion in a sand enclosure it will wear down the exoskeleton so be careful
But he also said that urodacus yaschenkoi use osmosis to get moisture from the sand and Mark Newton wrote that care sheet scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll see his name.I don't know pinchythescorp, don't you think your expert friend meant that you should dampen your sand at a ratio of 20ml/1kg sand with water.......and then wait for it to dry before introducing the scorpion.
The idea being that as the water evaporated it would consolidate the sand (make it stiff) so that your Urodacus yaschenkoi could dig a borrow