MikeOLogical
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2005
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hello all, i'm new to this board, and new to insects in general... i went to the reptile expo the other day and came home with a nice fat emperor scorpion, my first pet arthropod...
first thing i notice is he eats more than expected... the first day i gave him 2 mealworms and a cricket, second day he ate 3 more crickets and 2 mealworms...
today i bought more crickets and found total carnage... ants were everywherer and my crickets were losing the battle bigtime... so rather than put the new crickets into the keeper with the ants, i put them in the scorpion tank while i cleaned up the ant mess...
when i went back an hour later the scorpion had eaten 10 of the dozen crickets, and the other two were hiding under the water dish...
am i feeding my scorpion too much?
also i was a bit confused as to which reptile supplement i should dust my bugs with, the stuff with phosphorous or without?
thanks in advance
first thing i notice is he eats more than expected... the first day i gave him 2 mealworms and a cricket, second day he ate 3 more crickets and 2 mealworms...
today i bought more crickets and found total carnage... ants were everywherer and my crickets were losing the battle bigtime... so rather than put the new crickets into the keeper with the ants, i put them in the scorpion tank while i cleaned up the ant mess...
when i went back an hour later the scorpion had eaten 10 of the dozen crickets, and the other two were hiding under the water dish...
am i feeding my scorpion too much?
also i was a bit confused as to which reptile supplement i should dust my bugs with, the stuff with phosphorous or without?
thanks in advance