Emperor scorpion

the lighting was a pure accident, i just happened to be somewhat close to a window :P. and as far as the pinkey eating goes......it doesnt. Not even holding it against its mouth made it show any interest. I'd like to try something bigger that would get up and move around, but i cant think of anything that would be big enough to attract attention that wouldnt be able to hurt the scorpion.

Very Nice animal not as big as the one that crawled out of a sleeping bag of one of the guys in my tent while I was in saudi. So not shure If I would ever own one of them. Know I wouldn't want to own the other big kreepy crawler from over there the camel spider. Lol

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Originally Posted by McAdry

Very Nice animal not as big as the one that crawled out of a sleeping bag of one of the guys in my tent while I was in saudi. So not shure If I would ever own one of them. Know I wouldn't want to own the other big kreepy crawler from over there the camel spider. Lol

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If i saw anything that big or bigger comming out of a sleeping bag I dont think i would sleep for the next month atleast :P

If that imperator is an adult (5+inches) you'll want to have at least 6 inches of substrate in there for it to burrow in. 100% sphagnum peat moss is fine for them, that reptile bark stuff is pretty much just a waste of money. It's not going to help hold a burrow, as a matter of fact, it can make burrowing more difficult for the scorpion and can encourage mold in high humidity.
It's a good idea to give P. imperator 2 or more hides at various places around the tank so they can pick and choose where they want to hang out. The more places they have to hide, the more secure they will feel and will eat better and just over all be healthier.
Temperatures should be in the high 80s to 90s and humidity should be at *least* 80%...90% during the day would be even better.
These guys are burrowing rain forest scorpions. They like it hot and humid....or, as I often put it...they *like* living in a sauna.
Oh and prey should not be any larger than 1/3 the scorpion's body, that's *not* counting palps and tail. Anything much larger than that and the scorpion will consider it a threat rather than food.
Oh, also, about the pinks...scorpions eat invertebrate prey as their staple diet, crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, things like that.

Great looking scorp you have there! :D

I was wrong, what im using isnt reptibark it is lizard litter, which is a much finer product. The humitity stays around 85-90 and i havent had any mold problems at all. I agree, the reptibark would be more or less impossible to burrow in, i just had the two products mixed up when i said that earlier. I normally feed crickets, but i had read pinkeys can be fed occasionally, so i tried it. There are a couple places to hide in the tank, i had removed one for the picture. It has a piece of cork bark on one end, and a large water dish that it had burrowed under on the other. Thanks for the size comment on the food. I had wondered what the "cut off point" was on size. I dont plan on feeding anything quite that big, but i was still curious. Thanks for all the advice.

Is it safe for your scorpion to have a hide under the water dish? if he moves the wrong part of the dirt that holding up even half of the water dish, wouldn't the water dish crush or at least break one of his legs?

Generally a scorpion that chooses to burrow under their water dish will only do so if it feels the terrain is stable, which is usually is because the substrate under the dish tends to be more moist, thus packing and holding shape better...the other reason a scorpion will burrow under its water dish...because the humidity is higher there.

If it's using that area exclusively to burrow, raise the humidity around the rest of the container.