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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJB13" data-source="post: 5394" data-attributes="member: 438"><p>I had an emperor scorpion become pregnant and was fortunate enough to watch her give birth deep in her burrow. It took her quite a while. It's been about a year now, 21 were born and I have 14 left. There growing and moulting great. One of them is half the size as the others. I keep them all together and assume there's been cannabalism but they stay in their burrow and I leave them alone. I read up a lot on them and separated the young from the mother at second instar, still white but bodies were formed and they were roaming around. The mother died 2 days after I took her babies. Conditions were right and I don't know why she died. It was my first time and I assume it was stress but am not sure. Has this ever happened to anyone else?</p></blockquote><p></p>