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I'm not sure what to make of this. I'd never dabbled in scorps prior to this one, so am unfamiliar with the possible issues concerning them. I had tossed him a cricket and when i checked on the situation, he had just finished immobilizing it. I had noticed a slight discolouration on his tail before, but after I took these most recent photos and had begun to process them, I noticed it being more pronounced.
At first i thought it was possibly the remnants of a moult, but then realized I've never seen any evidence of a moult since I got the scorp. Looking more closely, it almost seems like something ON the exo. I wondered if it could be some sort of fungal growth, but lack of experience makes that a guess.
The enclosure has never been damp since I got the scorpion, the only moisture he has been exposed to would be the ambient summer humidity, which can be pretty muggy. I checked and currently it is 72% in the room. That's based on a gauge that may not even be accurate, however. The sand is bone dry as ever, though.
I also wondered if it could just be excreta, i think the excrete from that area, don't they? of course that may not be a good thing either, but maybe slightly better than a fungal infection of some sort. Obviously, his tail is functional. Here are the pictures for anybody would like to give diagnosis a shot.
At first i thought it was possibly the remnants of a moult, but then realized I've never seen any evidence of a moult since I got the scorp. Looking more closely, it almost seems like something ON the exo. I wondered if it could be some sort of fungal growth, but lack of experience makes that a guess.
The enclosure has never been damp since I got the scorpion, the only moisture he has been exposed to would be the ambient summer humidity, which can be pretty muggy. I checked and currently it is 72% in the room. That's based on a gauge that may not even be accurate, however. The sand is bone dry as ever, though.
I also wondered if it could just be excreta, i think the excrete from that area, don't they? of course that may not be a good thing either, but maybe slightly better than a fungal infection of some sort. Obviously, his tail is functional. Here are the pictures for anybody would like to give diagnosis a shot.