Step by step tutorial (Scorpion tank with "swimming pool")

[snappleWhiteTea]

Seriously? The scorps take sub and throw it in the water? What for? Those little buggers.

no haha not like that, they drag it in.

 

[Nomadinexile]

no haha not like that, they drag it in.

Do they go swimming or something? Or just out on their walks, kickin' coco?
Or do your scorpions try to cover their messes like dogs?

 

[Philth]

Will the scorp actually go in the water?

If Robc pushes it in, it will ;P

(sorry I had too,... some of you scorpion people might not get that)

Later, Tom

 

[Irene B. Smithi]

Wow, LOVE LOVE LOVE your tank!

 

[H. laoticus]

digging burrows can easily get coco fiber into the water. Can't you use a small fish net to get the floating coco fiber out?

 

[Nomadinexile]

digging burrows can easily get coco fiber into the water. Can't you use a small fish net to get the floating coco fiber out?

Most coco has fairly fine fragments, it would have to be a micro-fine filter

 

[ZergFront]

Wow, very cool! I never heard of a scorpion that goes into water. Then again before AB, I didn't think there was a tarantula like that either. I can't wait to see some pics of the scorp checking out its new digs.

 

[whitewolf]

Looks good. Just the look I was going for with the frogs but learned the hard way hot glue is not water tight seal.

Eventually I'll get that 20 high going for them so I can reclaim my exo lol.

 

[Nomadinexile]

Wow, very cool! I never heard of a scorpion that goes into water. Then again before AB, I didn't think there was a tarantula like that either. I can't wait to see some pics of the scorp checking out its new digs.

I don't think the scorpion is going to go in the water.... I could be wrong but...

 

[Galapoheros]

I was surprised to see a vid on Youtube of an emp going into a shallow water bowl and go under water and walk on the bottom for about 3 seconds and "wash" around rubbing it's legs, then it came back up. I've been looking for the vid but I'm having a hard time finding it again. Maybe somebody can have better luck looking for it. I thought it was kind of cool, I'd heard of them doing that but was doubting it, then I saw that vid. It was obvious the scorp did it on purpose, didn't just happened to walk in or something like that. But this in the thread would be too deep I think, you could always shallow it up with gravel though as much as you want. You could put a cheap bottom filter in also with gravel and circulate the water that way. I did it with a bigger tank that way that had about 5 inches of water in it, worked fine.

 

[Nomadinexile]

what what what?

 

[H. laoticus]

Most coco has fairly fine fragments, it would have to be a micro-fine filter

yup, I had one of those nets as well. It was more of a cloth fabric or something like that.

 

[Galapoheros]

what what what?

yeah that scorp vid is on youtube somewhere, unless the person deleted it. I've been looking for it more, just can't find it:wall:. Seems like the title was "scorpion takes a dip", something like that.

 

[Nomadinexile]

http://incaudavenenum.e-monsite.com/rubrique,nom-vernaculaire,1174554.html

Lychas mucronatus - Chinese Swimming Scorpion

 

[BorisTheSpider]

I did something like this a long time ago , but I ran the glass longways to divide the tank in half from front to back . The front had fish and the back had birds . I used matching drift wood and artificial plants in both halves and when looked at from directly in front it looked like the birds were swimming . Although , it wasn't meant to be a permanent enclosure . The bird aquarium as I called it was for an ecology class and I think that it got me an A . To this day I wish I still had the thing . It was very cool . I remember that the birds were Zebra finches but i can't remember what kind of fish that I used .