Emperor scorpion

Here it is
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...DSCN1991-1.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/DSCN1986.jpg

Awesome! I don't know alot about keeping scorpions, but shouldn't you be using moist peat moss for an emp? I think they need high humidity, and a place to hide.

humidity high (i forget but im thinking 75-80ish...) there is some moss in there to hold moisture. As far as hiding, there is a piece of cork bark he has a small burrow under, and a really big really deep one under his water dish.

Gotcha. It's hard to tell from the picture, it looks like dry bark. Beautiful scorpion, congrats.

i absolutley love scorpions i had an emperor for awhile but he escaped unfortunatley. MY mom was soooooooooo pissed off

i forget what the stuff is called, but most of it is finer than the big pieces in those pics (the bigger stuff is on top, and he happend to be where alot of the biggest pieces are. Also the surface there is rather dry, but as soon as you move it around a little its pretty damp under it (just a quarter inch or so down it starts lookin wet). Now that it has actually started to burrow instead of just lay under stuff i am probably going to mix some moss and stuff into the mix to help it hold its form better, and make it deeper.

Hi,


Does yours eat the pinky (that is a pinky right?) straight off the ground? I always had to hold mine against her mouthparts for about 25 minutes after she started eating it and brought her claws around.

Basically if I put it against her mouth she would start eating but in the early stages if it dropped she just ignored it. Spoilot thats what she was :P



dr del

I dont know yet. Thats the first one ive tried. It was one that was partially eaten from the litter that was born that night. I'll let you know later today if it's gone or not once i get to school to check.

Make sure you do not use any kind of flouro lighting......UV lighting will kill Emps. Nice scorp by the way! :)

good looking creature you've got there.. I like the way the lighting for the picture helps to show the nice dark green color that can sometimes show.. I've got two at now, Brutus and Genghis.. I'll post a couple of pictures soon..

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

Quote:

---

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

---

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.