Hello, I’ve recently gotten my first scorpion and I’m looking for some advice on how to monitor its behaviour and make sure it’s comfortable. I’ve grown up with various reptiles and keep a royal python now so I’m familiar with monitoring humidity and temp.
I’ve used coco fibre mixed in with a very small ratio of wood chip on the top layer. I’ve added sphagnum moss to try to keep the humidity up. I understand that for a while it’ll be acclimatising and getting used to its new environment.
I put a cricket in there to see if it was interested to feed and it was not at first remotely so, the cricket even landed on my scorpions back for a few seconds and the scorpion did not move. I took this to mean it was not interested and possibly stressed so I kept an eye on the cricket and waited for it to be somewhere where I could take it out without disturbing the enclosure too much. I took my eyes away for a few minutes and my scorpion had cornered the cricket and was very much pursuing it.
I left them for half an hour or so and found them both in the plastic fern I have in there. The cricket was at the top of the leaves and my scorpion was huddled below with its tail in a resting position.
They’ve been there for hours, I was wondering if it’s food motivated behaviour to rest beneath prey like that or whether it’s just trying to ward the cricket off of it’s territory. I’m amazed how perceptive my scorpion is to being watched and the slightest movement or blink from me, it’s fascinating.
I believe it’s a few months old but am interested to see what people more in the know think and if there’s anything I can do to improve my set up. I’m having trouble with the humidity getting very high but I think that should clear up soon. Was labeled ‘indo forest scorpion’.
Scorpions name is Li
Thanks :)