What To Feed Your Pet Scorpion
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Unfortunately, when your pet scorpion wants dinner, you just can't pop down to the corner shop and pick up a bag of Scorpion Chow. You can, however, go to a reputable pet shop and buy a bag of live feeder crickets.
Yup -- live food. Scorpions are carnivorous hunters and seek out live prey to sting and chomp. In the wild, scorpions eat bugs, including spiders. The largest of scorpions can even eat very small lizards. Grabbing the random bugs that crawl by your home and chucking them in to your pet scorpion is not recommended (unless in extreme situations). You don't know what that bug has been eating. That random beetle could be a junk food junkie. Your scorpion gets all of their nutrition from their prey, so the prey has to eat healthy in order to keep the scorpion healthy.
As a treat, you can offer your pet scorpion mealworms (which are also available from the pet store and sometimes fishing supply shops). Moths also seem to be a popular choice from the dessert cart.
Feed At Night
Most scorpions seem to be most active (and therefore hungry) at night. By feeding at night, you have the best chance of having your pet scorpion actually eat. Feed every other night.
Scorpions can be finicky eaters and tend to have very erratic feeding patterns. If you have a good eater, you are lucky. But even if you have a finicky eater, be consoled that the scorpion is at least acting normally.
Home For The Food
Your scorpion will probably only eat one or two scorpions every two days, so you need a place to keep the crickets. They can be kept in an old fish tank or the plastic equivelent. Expect a few to escape. When you buy crickets, you are best off getting at least a dozen at a time in order to be sure of enough food for your pet scorpion, even after a break out by a few crickets.
Keep some empty egg crates in the cricket tank and feed them cricket food. No, I'm not kidding. Cricket food is available at all fine pet stores and online specialty shops. This food is so nutritious that we could probably survive on it, although I haven't met anyone who has put this theory to the test. Some people feed chopped up fruits, vegatables and crushed dry dog food instead. Some even have their own specialty recipes made in their food processors.
Water Sign
In astrology, the sign of Scorpio was assigned as a water sign because our ancestors believed scorpions carried their own water supply in their bodies. Well, although they drink very little, scorpions do need to drink water.
A shallow dish with clean water should be kept in the cage at all times. If there are any plants, give them a squirt of water. What some people like to do is spray the inside sides of the scorpion's tank with water, simulating dewdrops, and the scorpion drinks that.
If your pet scorpion is really small or a juvenile, add pebbles to the shallow dish to prevent drowning.
Bon appetite!
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Very interesting...I never knew what they ate before this.
Sorry I'm probably hurting your feelings but that really is not what I would call an ideal pet! What's happened to cute and cuddly pets?
great hub though
Zsuzsy
Thanks for the information, Whitney.
Thanks for the kind words, Patty.
My feelings aren't hurt at all, Zsuzsy. Thanks for taking the time to read my hub. Scorpions are not the ideal pet for everyone, that's for sure! Cute and cuddly pets are still popular and I think always will be for that reason. For more reasons why scorpions can make good pets for some people, see http://hubpages.com/hub/Do-Scorpions-Make-Good-Pet
I agree with Fucking Scorpian. My teacher has a supply catelog and is willing to buy things reserved for schools or businesses.
my scorpian is very very small but i still love it!
and my star sign is scopio! lol!
i don't know what to feed my pet scorpion! it doesn't eat moths, and i don't live near ANY pet shops. I've tried to feed it spiders, but its still won't eat them! my scoprion is very small. I never bought it, i caught it at a lake powell on a trip in utah. please can someone help me? my email is: mouse_roxx@yahoo.com. please someone help!
yo mouse well you could order insects online, or catch some in a area not treated with pesticides... hows your scorpion doing? here's my email let me know lutdabs1@yahoo.com
HI I WAS JUST BUSY WORKING AND FOUND A SCORPION IN ONE OF THE PACKETS WHAT DO I ?
P.S. I WANT TO KEEP IT
hi, i have recently acquired a small scorpion from spain as a friend found it when unloading their boxes off a truck from being on holiday in spain. They were keeping it in a plastic bottle so i offered to keep it as i have a spare vivarium but no heating for the time being. The tank has a wood chip substrate and various logs for it to hide or burrow. It is positioned on top of my other vivarium so that some heat is being generated. I am going to by it some crickets and water gel stuff today. However, i still do not know what species it is and had no idea who to contact for info. Please help x
I have 64 empire scorpion an I have breed them for 6 years if. U need help my email is simon125@hotmail.co.uk thx
Will my scorpion eat a hermit crab??
Do u think I could put a tarantula in the tank with my scorpion??
Snails: no it won't eat a hermit crab and it might even hurt your scorp as for the terantula that would be setting up a battle that may result in two pet deaths :(
Wow! I didn't know that scorpions drink that little water!
hi scorpion can eat other scorpion and lizards
you now scorpion drink blood most alot lol
i am from india mumbai and i want to buy a scorpian in mumbai so give me any adress or parcel me i will pay for it plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help out me
my number is 8080398457 plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me out
Yea I got my lil home girl scorpion girl a few weeks ago one of the coolest pets I've had were still working out the handling part of our pet master relationship but other than that she's amazing I had two questions 1: I've been hearing conflicting storys about the effects of a black light I have one I don't wanna use it as part of the tank til I'm shure it won't kill sheiva (scorpions name) and 2: she keeps tryna get up the tank walls. Like I'll go to bed with her tryna climb up and when I wake up she's in the same spot clearly passed out is there anything I can do to like preoccupie her so she's like burrowing or exploring or something I kinda feel like my set ups inadequate and I don't want my pet to die so please email me at thomasgomes99@yahoo.com and let me know about the black light and what not any suggestions ons on environment
Yea I got my lil home girl scorpion girl a few weeks ago one of the coolest pets I've had were still working out the handling part of our pet master relationship but other than that she's amazing I had two questions 1: I've been hearing conflicting storys about the effects of a black light I have one I don't wanna use it as part of the tank til I'm shure it won't kill sheiva (scorpions name) and 2: she keeps tryna get up the tank walls. Like I'll go to bed with her tryna climb up and when I wake up she's in the same spot clearly passed out is there anything I can do to like preoccupie her so she's like burrowing or exploring or something I kinda feel like my set ups inadequate and I don't want my pet to die so please email me at thomasgomes99@yahoo.com and let me know about the black light and what not any suggestions ons on environment
I found a small scorpion in knocksville,tn and it was a gold down color , wanting to know what type it is
i have a pet scorpian so this is very helpful!
i had my egyptian sand scorpion for 2 years now and love it. it's the cheapest pet i've had...i want another species of scorpion, anyone know where i can buy one?
just go to a pet store
Pumped to get my Flat Rock Scorpion.
I've read lots of conflicting webpages regarding whether or not scorpions NEED live food. Could someone clear this up for me? Thanks.
i just got a emperor scorpion the guy at the pet stor told me it was pregnant anyone have advice?
some people tell me that the baby scorpions eat their onw mother , its tht true?...regards
no scorpions dont eat their own mother, they live on the mum's back for a while and then they get bigger and leave, thats when u seperate them.
Josh since u posted that comment 3 months ago im sure u know by now they do only eat live food haha, they wont eat anything dead...they like a good live thing to kill themself :P.
anyone who wants to add me and give advice about scorpions and chat my msn is: King_jamiecb@hotmail.com
"Home For The Food
Your scorpion will probably only eat one or two scorpions every two days" LOL is says my scorpion would probably eat one or two scorpions every two days HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
will ym Hawaiian scorpion eat roaches?
Your scorpion will probably only eat one or two scorpions? did you mean two crikets not two scorpions.
Weird seeing a comment about how a scorpion is not an "ideal pet" (which no one ever claim)
In a page dedicated to feeding your pet scorpion.
I guess some people need to be heard.
Great page.
I in love with my fat tail golden pet scorpion and i keep experimenting with feed. no doubt crikets are good, but if you higly venomous species like mine i bet you would enjoy their fight for survival with other spiders and mouths etc.
it so unpridictable
hi im km, im just ask if how to know the sex if male or female of scorpion?
Hey guys i Found a very small scorpion in my tv lounge the other day. he is about 3.5cm in total about 5 with stretched out tail. i just want to know how often i need to feed him. i understand i need to try give him live food like crickets or roaches but how much? from what i can tell its a bark scorpion. i would like to keep him but if i cant get enough information id rather take him to the pet shop and give him away. i don't want to cause him pain because of my lack of info. any help would be very muchly appreciated. very nice page by the way
Hmmmm thanks for good information my l. quin. is not eating anything i think i should feed it at night
i am from india orissa and i want a pet emporer scorpion in orissa so give me any adress orparcel me i will pay for it plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me out my number is 9938544682
my friend found a guatemalan highland scorpion in some bananas at work and gave it to me. Should I keep it or will i get arrested?
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Whitney05 Level 2 Commenter 4 years ago
Medium and larger pet scorpions, like the Emperior Scorpion can eat pinkie mice on occassion, as well.