my scorpian doesnt eat!???

ynot

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just wanted to know if something is wrong with it? all it does is <poop> near the bulb all day and night. i get it some crikets but it seems not to take them just kinda attacxk and back off.

am i doing something wrong? pls help its my 1st scorpian (rock scorpian)
 
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Ryan C.

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Hmmmm...

First of all what's the scientific name of the scorpion? Theres a possibility that it's in premolt, or it may just not be hungry. More details please.
 

Ryan C.

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Eh, You own a scorpion and dont even know the scientific name? Theres many possibilities of what it could be... Any idea on locale? Do you know if its adult or not?
 

H. cyaneus

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Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other scorpions with "rock" in their common name. A picture would be able to clear everything up.

Mike
 

ynot

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well it looks like the picture in my last post.

the name of it is the "black rock scorpion"
 

Ryan C.

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I looked through all your posts and there's no picture. Maybe you could post one?

And Mike you know how useless common names are.
 

H. cyaneus

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Yeah I know how useless they are. Watch it end up being a Lychas Spp...

Mike
 

H. cyaneus

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Hadogenes.

And if I wasn't lazy, I'd go find out how to spell the species.

Mike
 

Ryan C.

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Yep. Defiently Hadogenes spp. In general they dont eat much and since its only 2.5cm its possibly in premolt.
 

~Abyss~

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try messing with the temp. I personally dont know much about these scorps but from experiance mine seem to react differently with the temp.
 

H. cyaneus

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Abyss, Hadogenes Spp plain out don't eat much. I head of a guy in Germany that has a male and feeds him 3 large circkets a YEAR. Generally, you don't have to worry much about Hadogenes Spp. and not eating.

Mike
 

~Abyss~

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WOW, thats gotta save you money on crix huh. Well I learned sumthin new today. Do I guess these would make good starter scorps right?
 

Ryan C.

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They make decent starters, Mild venom, pretty docile. But a new keeper would most likely get worried about it not eating much as ynot did here.
 

JSN

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enough about the anti-common name mumbo jumbo, yes we should be using scientific names but some people dont care about em' and are asking us to help em' out with their scorpions...so we must try the best we can with the names they give us, unless ofcourse they have a picture or something, then we would automatically recognize it...its just really starting to bug me how people focus on that rather than helping people out...when he said "rock" scorpion, I assumed flat rock/hadodenes...his picture confirmed it, there ya go...

sorry for ranting, just had to get this off my chest...
 
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Ryan C.

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... Atleast if people are gonna use common names try not to make it so general such as gold scorpion, texas scorpion, rock scorpion, etc. It's always best to learn scientific names as people will know exactly what scorpion you are talking about.
 
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