Tailess whip scorpion eating other tailess whip

[Destiny626]

Hello all, I went to do my nightly misting and found my smaller tailless whip eating the bigger one (I'm aware this can happen) . Long story short I noticed my bigger one not eat for a couple of weeks but didn't see this happening.

My smaller one ate a cricket two days ago and now seeing this makes me nervous because the other one is almost two times bigger then him. Is eating such a big meal like this dangerous to the tailess whip? Pic shown is of my bigger one on my hand when he was alive.

 

[Wolfram1]

It will stop eating if it is full.

Do you know if the larger one was alive before it was eaten? They do scavenge feed.

What species is this? With my Euphrynichus bacillifer i have personally never come across any cannibalism but i have heard of cases were a smaller one caught a cricked and a larger one caught the cricked + the already attached smaller animal and proceeded to eat both.

I have personally seen them duel it out and steal food from each other but thats it.

Many species are cannibalistic however and can not be kept together permanently.

 

[Destiny626]

Sadly I don't know their type since I got them from petco which had no idea . He was alive yesterday, but I did notice he was acting weak and not fast reactive as usual when misting. Would make sense if he passed and then was found by my smaller one though! Just wish I checked on them more than once before he got eaten.

 

[Albireo Wulfbooper]

It'll be fine. They just drop too-large prey if they get full. Probably won't want to eat again for a month or so.

 

[Edan bandoot]

It will stop eating if it is full.

Do you know if the larger one was alive before it was eaten? They do scavenge feed.

What species is this? With my Euphrynichus bacillifer i have personally never come across any cannibalism but i have heard of cases were a smaller one caught a cricked and a larger one caught the cricked + the already attached smaller animal and proceeded to eat both.

I have personally seen them duel it out and steal food from each other but thats it.

Many species are cannibalistic however and can not be kept together permanently.

at a glance it looks like maesi but I don't know enough to rule out other phrynus or paraphrynus species, etc

 

[Destiny626]

Thank goodness, it's a really good eater so I was afraid of it possibly overeating to death or something lol.

 

[Scourge]

What species is this? With my Euphrynichus bacillifer i have personally never come across any cannibalism but i have heard of cases were a smaller one caught a cricked and a larger one caught the cricked + the already attached smaller animal and proceeded to eat both.

I have also had this happen - with a P. marginemaculata and one of her offspring.

 

[darkness975]

This is why I don't keep them communally.

 

[Destiny626]

Couldn't agree more. I am sticking to the one for now on lol.

 

[mantisfan101]

This species is not known to be communal and imo tend to be on the more aggressive side. Only species I kept communally were phrynus marginemaculatus and that changed when I found my male’s legs next to a fat female the other day.