Is it just me or mealies just keep on pupating if they're not fed to pets immediately and why do they pupate so fast? Err >__ Good thing my imacs love the mealy beetles
Has anyone experimented with keeping other inverts with scorpions? Either to have them breed and be eaten by scorpions,or as 'custodians',eating leftovers and other organic material that may othe...
Is it possible to keep crickets silently
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t8558-can-u-keep-crickets-without-them-making-that-god-awful-sound
Hello everyone! I was just wondering if there is a feeder that doesn't jump, climb or fly like crickets and locusts. I can't use roaches either. Also it needs to be able to be used as a staple...
Hey everyone, I have been feeding my emperor scorpion baby, and half sized crickets. I fear that as he gets bigger and I need to use larger crickets IE full grown, the noise and scent of the cric...
I have heard that you can feed the Asian Forest Scorpion live mice and lizards, and it actually makes them grow larger in size? Is that true, and is it worth feeding this kind of prey to them?...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t11533-small-lizards-or-mice
Hey all. I bought 100 large dubia's from a vendor on amazon. None of them are adults. There are some very large nymphs however. A few of em have what look like beginnings of wings? The rest ...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t11523-dubia-roach-growth-rate-question
So, to those of you a bit weathered in the breeding of crickets.. Have you been experiencing a continuation of the cricket virus? I no longer colonize the ones I buy from my local store because t...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t11313-cricket-virus-or-beginners-trails
Hey all. i've been keeping a fairly small colony of lats. And every few days to a week, the enclosure develops a layer of frass. What i do is I would remove it after a while and clean out the tub...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t11183-what-do-you-do-with-roach-frass
I have been poking around the fora here, and the internet in general, trying to discern whether either of these options will act as suitable feeders for scorpions. I am sure the scorpions will co...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t9674-blattella-germanica-and-or-periplaneta-americana-as-feeders
So I found out roaches are not going to be part of my scorpions diet. There illegal here in Canada. Basically my options are meal worms, hornworms and crickets. Should I be mixing it up, or...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10972-illegal-roaches-now-what
hey I used to thaw the fuzzy mice in hot water in the bag too long, like 20 minutes and they got all soggy and fell apart. now I thaw them about 10 minutes in warmer water and they work fine. but...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10987-help-thawing-adult-mouse-question
So yeah i have a couple of Parabuthus transvaalicus slings and I was wondering what if i fed them a superworm, maimed of course. They wont eat mealworms so i want to try a decapitated superwor...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10965-superworms-and-2i-slings
Hi there! I'm planning to start a small B. dubia colony. My scorp will get a bigger terrarium in a few months, and I'll use the old cage to breed the roaches. But... I don't know whether my Heter...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10904-b-dubia-several-questions
Has anyone fed or bred small moths like Hoffmannophila and the like for feeding small scorpions like Chaerilus or slings? Moths like humid places as well and as such are a viable prey item t...
Hello, I recommend these, they are a lot quieter and a lot more relaxed than house crickets. However a word of warning... be careful not to leave them overnight with sick or weak animals. ...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10830-gryllus-assimilis-field-cricket
I really need your help guys! My mealworms were attacked by ants. How do you prevent this?? And if it does happen again, how to take the ants out?
I have been feeding a brood of baby C. vits (striped bark scorps) wingless fruit flies. I have them in a large Critter Keeper. I tried putting a thick smear of Vasoline around the inside top of t...
Hi, I'm looking into starting a blaptica dubia colony. But I really don't want a 55g tank full of roaches. Is it possible to have a small (5g bucket maybe) for a colony, and if so, how do you con...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10310-blaptica-dubia-colony-control
Howdy frinds, ivebeen hearing that its time for the seventeen year cicada invation in the eastern US. Im really not sure how the scorps would react to these. My large female emp has been very gre...
I use my Blaptica dubia colony pretty heavily now, and as the weather warms, I noticed last year that flies, moths, and other flying insects would hang around, and I know that the fly larvae woul...
hi i have i problem in my dubia , in our place i can't find a water gel / water crystal so i put water dish and put a tissue in it im just curious is this bad? or can harm my dubia feeeder? ...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t10058-blaptica-dubia-colony-hydration-problem-help
So yea i want to start breeding hornworms and i have read a lot about these caterpillars and I know roaches are way easier but I really want to breed hornworms but I still got some questions: If ...
As the title suggests, has anyone ever bred Pachnoda beetles as feeders (using the larvae I assume since the shell of adults would be too much). I'm just curious as these are actually quite an at...
When using adult female crickets as feeders I usually only give them to inverts that will eat them right away so they will not lay eggs in the invert cages. The thought has occured to me that may...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t9281-female-crickets-on-sand-substrate
This may already be posted somewhere on here, but I found this article through the bearded dragon forum. http://www.geckotime.com/jamaican-field-cricket-gryllus-assimili/ It talks about the diffe...
this morning i woke up to my P. impreator feeding on a cricket then on the glass a noticed what seemed to be a newborn cricket can some one show me what they look like bcuz i couldn't find it by ...
Hi Everyone, Is there any way to silence a chirping cricket without killing it? Thanks
The black tube that the crickets use to lay the eggs, is that see able at all times of female crickets or does it only sometimes show?
i bought a meal worm dish and put 3 superworms in it and they crawled right out and burrowed in my scorpion cage, and the thing says its for mealworms , waxworms and superworms , its a lie it doe...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t8568-dont-buy-mealworm-dishes-they-dont-work
Earwig season has started, and I was wondering if they were able to be fed to scorps. I know they should be killed first, but afterwards, would scorps like them?
I know everyone might have access to different feeder items. As such, I was just curious what people feed as their most common prey item to scorpions? Currently I feed a mix of Dubia and Crickets...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t8279-what-type-of-feeder-do-you-prefer
If I have to choose between roaches and crickets as feeders which is better? The only species available nearby that I know of atm are Turkistan roaches. Currently I have: 0.0.1 H. longima...
is there any reason why u cant feed a scorpiom wood bugs ? and i agree with the anti cricket thig , grasshoppers , it was already my plan to get them this summer
how can i tell the gender of my bugs?
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t7998-zophobas-atratus-superworms
I've been looking to start a dubia roach colony for a while now, decided I was going to start looking for them if most my pets can profit from them. I was wondering what eats them? I have a leopa...
Is this too much for my emperor, it appears he is having difficulty catching. Even though my asian forest took it like a champ.
Any idea as to how to effectively breed crickets? I got 100 crickets in 2 critter keepers (about 50 in each) and I added some coconut fiber substrate and misted it. I also gave them a bottle cap ...
What types of roaches can you use as feeders? And where can I get them? The usual places I've looked don't sell them.
just wondered what insects in general you tend to use for your scorps, personally i breed locusts and lobster roaches
This is my first attempt at raising crickets. I'm only a little over a month into it and my colony is not yet self sufficient, but it's far enough along to share some photos. The cricket colony i...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t7304-shebeen-s-cricket-colony
Hi Guys So finally i bit the bullet. Out with the nasty crickets! Worms are too passive and not suitable as a high protein source. Roaches give me goosebumps. What is left? Well, I thought, black...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t6895-grasshoppers-exclusive
Howdy all, I am considering (Due to high individual price) breeding my own feeder mice. Does anyone have any tips regarding this subject or does any one else breed their own mice? Thanks all, j...
I bought three dozen crickets yesterday to start a colony and found this abomination amongst them. What the hell is this? The white cricket is actually alive; the brown cricket is dead.
I am going to order 2k lats next week and am not sure how to keep them. I have am already breeding discoids but want something that breeds faster and is smaller. So can people who breed them tell...
Guys what are the web thingy spore-like in my lateralis food dish? Its like spiders had spawn all the web thingy on their food and its kinda hard and sticked to the food dish Pics to follow becau...
Does anyone have any tips for keeping crickets? I find them to be extremely messy, also they seem to die really easy not sure if its because too many are in a small container or what, but im afra...
Since there are so many egg cases in my container, should I relocate these eggs into other container? Or should I put them as is I want to breed my b lats and make a "nursery" for the new l...
I put a cricket into my H Laoticus enclosure today and it started laying eggs all over the place, then it ran under the bark so I was not able to reach it and it started to lay more eggs :/ I ...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t6530-darn-cricket-is-laying-eggs
Hey guys, specially Jamie, Peloquin etc.. who have experience in roach breeding. I'm gonna order my first B. Dubias to start up a colony. I've been reading most of the articles and posts abou...
https://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/t6523-how-many-roaches-to-start-a-colony-with