Scorpions venom ?

paradisiak

Arachnopeon
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Hi everyone,

If two scorpions of the same species fight and one sting the other, can he kill it or they have some kind of imune system against that ?

Thank's
PaRaDiSiaK
 

Reitz

Arachnobaron
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Scorpions are immune to their venom only in terms of digestion. From what I understand, if a scorpion is stung by another scorpion if the same sp. it can die from the venom, though it will must likely die first from the sting's puncture wounds first.

Chris
 

paradisiak

Arachnopeon
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Thanks,

I was asking that because the other day I went to another pets store to see what they have and I saw a 15g tank fill with almost 30 Emperors (adults & juveniles). One of the adults was hanging around with a smaller one in his chela and met another adult. They start to fight for the meal and stung each other without any damage.

I was impress to see how an Emperor can be agressive but concerned about the condition they were keep in, the tank had a small layer of news paper and a water dish with huge sponge in it. This pets store is bad, most of the pets wasn't keep properly and the store was dirty.

PaRaDiSiaK
 
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