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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Denny Dee" data-source="post: 127378" data-attributes="member: 1393"><p>Okay.  These are very hardy and easy to care for scorpions.  The most important thing to provide is high humidity (80 percent roughly) so make sure you have a tool to measure that.  Adding Moss helps to hold it a little longer.  Ideally the substrate supports drainage as it will be moist most of the time.  I use Hydraballs (or you can use gravel) as the first layer covered by 70/30 mix of Eco-Earth/Vermiculite.  Water dish is critical and will aid with humidity.  I recommend stones in the dish to ensure prey does not drown and keeps the scorpion from drowning as well (it took me two losses to learn that).  Hide is critical to minimize stress levels.  Heat source or whole room heating is possible.  80+ degrees if you are breeding but 75 is fine for general care.  There is a lot of debate on temperature on the forum you should read but generally try to recreate an environment that they would enjoy in their natural habitat if possible.  Heat is a factor for growth and molting.  These are large scorpions and you will hear recommendations on large tanks (10 gallons plus). They spend the bulk of their life in a the hide so I think 5 gallon enclosures are fine for a single species.  Lighting is another topic with controversy.  I have lights on timers to try to recreate a day/night environment as most inverts are nocturnal.  Again, my preference as many keepers do not create light at all.  If it is always dark, I compare that to our Las Vegas experience of never knowing when it is time to call it a night and sleep. I feed my scorpions once a week.  They do not need more than that but if you really enjoy feeding, twice a week is okay.  Hope that helps?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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