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Thought I'd share a story that occured two weeks ago. I apologize in advance because I know now that there are many things that I could have done to prevent it, but, as these things go, it is easy to get lax and slip into a groove that works up until the point that it ceases to work.
I've been scorpion sitting a buddy's emperor for the last 5 months while he's been in Poland. The little emperor had been in premolt for a long time and we were both looking forward to seeing him in all of his molted glory. Finally he molted and was beautiful. The claws finally caught up with the body and he just looked right. Before the molt he was about and inch and a half, afterward, about 2 1/4.
About 4 days went by and I decided to offer him some food. He never took live food before and I thought I better not stress him out incase it was still too soon, so I gave him a dead meal worm.
THE NEXT DAY, ants raided. Nasty little fire ants poured from underneath the wall like ninjas and made a straight line for his cage. When we found him, it was too late. The meal worm was gone and little was left of the scorpion. The must have picked up the sent of the dead mealworm and found the scorpion as well.
Needless to say, I feel aweful and I'm not looking forward to breaking the news. We sprayed for ants the following day and have since set antraps in our pet room where we have 6 tarantulas, a pacman and a beardie.
Guess I learned the hardway and I hope that you can learn from my mistake.
I've been scorpion sitting a buddy's emperor for the last 5 months while he's been in Poland. The little emperor had been in premolt for a long time and we were both looking forward to seeing him in all of his molted glory. Finally he molted and was beautiful. The claws finally caught up with the body and he just looked right. Before the molt he was about and inch and a half, afterward, about 2 1/4.
About 4 days went by and I decided to offer him some food. He never took live food before and I thought I better not stress him out incase it was still too soon, so I gave him a dead meal worm.
THE NEXT DAY, ants raided. Nasty little fire ants poured from underneath the wall like ninjas and made a straight line for his cage. When we found him, it was too late. The meal worm was gone and little was left of the scorpion. The must have picked up the sent of the dead mealworm and found the scorpion as well.
Needless to say, I feel aweful and I'm not looking forward to breaking the news. We sprayed for ants the following day and have since set antraps in our pet room where we have 6 tarantulas, a pacman and a beardie.
Guess I learned the hardway and I hope that you can learn from my mistake.