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.