Advice for soon to be Emperor mama..

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I know we have some T breeders here. Anyone with experience breeding Emperor scorps?


My Emperor girl looks to ready to give birth this spring. She is so big that I can't believe she hasn't exploded at the seams. She spends 99.9% of her time deep in her burrow. Her enclosure has a healthy colony of spring tails which blanket the top of the substrate when I pour water in to keep everything moist.

The tank has over and under heat as well keeping it a good 85*. My main concern is what to feed such tiny scorps. Once they are born and begin to move off the mothers back, (she has a separate enclosure ready) what is small enough for the babies after they molt? Fruit flys? Will they eat the spring tails? And how big do they have to be before they can take pinhead crickets?

I'm still debating fixing individual cups for each of them. If I do this it will be difficult to keep them at the proper temperature. In aware I may lose some to cannibalism if I leave them all in one tank but I will add more places for them to hide.

Thanks.

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[RichsBallPythons]

Get in a order of pin head crickets for the babies.

[Alexandra V]

I'm not a huge expert on the little babies, but pinheads are what I'd say as well.

[Neal]

Well while they're on the moms back the mom will feed them, at least that's what all my scorps did when they had babies. Once you separate them, then you wan't to feed very small crickets. If you need any advice or help let me know.

[Wh00h0069]

She is cool looking. Let me know how it goes with her. I have been wanting to get one for some time, but don't know a thing about their care.

[Neal]

She is cool looking. Let me know how it goes with her. I have been wanting to get one for some time, but don't know a thing about their care.

It's simple, it really is.

Eco Earth bedding, high humidity, 80%+. A hide, what I did is I went to wal-mart and bought the bottom of the clay pots, the thing you sit the pot on that traps the water(whatever it's called), turned it upside down but before i did, i made a hole and then i took 3 fingers side by side and came upward out to make an entrance, I put that thing upside down pushed it down, put more substrate over it then packed it and did any additional space mods to it, I used substrate about 4" deep cause I know emps like to burrow sometimes. I used a top of a butter thing as a water dish.



The thing on top is the clay pot bottom thing I was talking about.

If you really want to get into scorpions let me know as I at one point had over 10-12 diff species and I was breeding them and all and I'm fixing to get some extremely rare species, one species hasn't even been in Europe's pet trade and they're way more advanced then us as far as that is concerned.

[Wh00h0069]

It's simple, it really is.

Eco Earth bedding, high humidity, 80%+. A hide, what I did is I went to wal-mart and bought the bottom of the clay pots, the thing you sit the pot on that traps the water(whatever it's called), turned it upside down but before i did, i made a hole and then i took 3 fingers side by side and came upward out to make an entrance, I put that thing upside down pushed it down, put more substrate over it then packed it and did any additional space mods to it, I used substrate about 4" deep cause I know emps like to burrow sometimes. I used a top of a butter thing as a water dish.



The thing on top is the clay pot bottom thing I was talking about.

If you really want to get into scorpions let me know as I at one point had over 10-12 diff species and I was breeding them and all and I'm fixing to get some extremely rare species, one species hasn't even been in Europe's pet trade and they're way more advanced then us as far as that is concerned.

Thanks a ton. I will have to wait until I get home to see the pic. Dang work filters... What size tank would I need, and would a misting system be a good idea. I already have a misting system hooked up to my GTP cage, I could run a tube to the Emp tank too.

[Neal]

Thanks a ton. I will have to wait until I get home to see the pic. Dang work filters... What size tank would I need, and would a misting system be a good idea. I already have a misting system hooked up to my GTP cage, I could run a tube to the Emp tank too.

I used a 10 gal. I changed the water out whenever she tracked dirt in it, and what I did is I covered about half the screen to hold the humidity good.

As far as the misting system, I'm sure you could depending on how often it misted? I misted daily with a spray bottle and kept the substrate damp. People say to let the temps adjust overnight, and you can, but I never varied that much.

During the day the temp was 85-87, and at night the temp was 78-80.

I used to hold my emperor, though I would never recommend to anybody to hold a scorpion as you never know if you're allergic or not, even though the emperor's sting is equal to that of a bee sting, and it uses its claws more then anything because they're rather powerful, so rarely will it sting. If you have to pick your emperor up for any reason I recommend using triceps with rubber tips and grabbing toward the last segment of the tail right before the stinger, you can even do this by hand as a last resort but be careful because they can twist their stinger a bit and if you're not on the right angle it'll stick you. Also watch out because they can come back with the claws and get you, well not sure about emperors but I had this happen with a smaller one and it freaked me out and I let the tail go and it swung that tail around and tagged my fingernail(this was like 3-4 years ago).

A lot of the time when you mist the tank the scorpion will drink from its own claws.

As far as molting goes, if you don't get an adult you may see them stop eating before a molt, and make sure when they're going through the molt that you don't put anything in there or anything a few days after as it takes the exo-skeleton a few days to harden back up. I feed 2x a week and clean up any cricket leg remains. Also never leave food in there overnight as it can stress the scorpion out if for some reason it doesn't eat.

Edit:
If you get more then one you want to go with a bigger tank as they're communal but they're known for fighting, especially if you introduce one after the other one has made home.