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I said in the original post it was an H arizonensis. It's not at it's final instar, in real life it is a lot smaller than it appears in the images. The seller was initially supposed to send me an adult but sent a sub adult instead. Given H. arizonensis' molting issues in captivity I was hoping it was not mycosis. I also heard of them molting out of it but that would constitute surviving the molt =/:cry: I've never had a problem with mycosis, but I know that if you keep the bacterial infection down long enough they'll molt out of it and be fine, but it seems your scorp is at its final instar. Is it an H. arizonensis?
The only species I keep humid are my pandinus imperators. I was going to purchase another adult Hadrurus (spadix in this case) but now I'm concerned about if it develops the same issue. There is no restriction of ventilation on the enclosure, the only case I can think of where humidity would even enter the enclosure is from the ambient air humidity. I have no idea what the ambient air humidity is but the only other exposure to water is the occasional water dish/cap that I fill up once a month or so with water and let it dry out until the following month or more.If you have kept the animal bone dry then i'll agree that it must have had mycosis before you acquired it...Either that or you keep your scorpion under to humid conditions
Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Inverts are pretty susceptible to chemicals.BTW...I have heard of people trying fungicides/alcohol/turpentine and other types of chemicals to kill the mycosis. To my knowledge none of these home remedies have ever worked.