Hyper active scorp ?

Hello, Im new to scorps and have had a desert hairy for 4 months, it is a sub adult, stop eating and very active with its legs and feet. Any ideas what may be wrong? Thank you for your help.

I've heard these guys are pretty active. Just how active is he? When did he stop eating? How are you caring for it?

Temps 78-85 humidity 65- 75 percent humidity, white sand, stays on the cool end on a piece of slate and moves feet and pinchers a lot. has not ate for a month. thanks for your help. Kind of acts like it don't like the sand....

Any pics? When you say cool side do you mean you are heating the enclosure?

External heat is not required for hadrurus.

If your 'white sand' is calci-sand, remove it asap. Calci sand is bad for bugs.

Just use normal play sand, quikcrete makes a cheap and safe sand, and its white-ish, so the yellow will still stand out.

Its cheap and only $5.00 per 50 lbs. You can get it from home depot.


Hadrurus are also obligate burrowers and will eventually stress to death without a burrow. A hide isnt enough.

For a large hadrurus, a substrate depth at least TWICE the length of the scorpion is required, otherwise it will collapse easily.

The deeper substrate gets, the more stable it becomes.

60 - 70% humidity is too high for H. arizonensis ...

your scorpion is digging! that's what they do my friend, dig burrows.....but if the send is loose, they will just keep on digging, especially at night....don't worry...