urgent help needed

[newtots]

i know it's not about tarantulas but i've posted on several other forums and no one is helping so please if it's not allowed then delete it. i have a asian forest scorpion and he's in trouble. every one of his legs and his one claw are all stuck in the molt... i have him in an icu but it's not helping at all. it's been 48 hours that he's been stuck. he started the night of new years eve and is still in the same spot. he is still alive and trying to get out. is there any help for him or do i just have to watch him die???

 

[Enn49]

@MassExodus might be able to help

 

[Redacted]

Warm, wet sphagnum bed and sides with scorp tucked in it in a container with a few holes on the side only at 82 F is what I would do. No guarantees, but an ideal situation.

 

[newtots]

i've had him in an icu unit since yesterday morning with a heat lamp to create enough humidity( the heat lamp is far enough away it won't heat it too much). i checked yesterday at 7pm and he was still in the exact same spot... he quite literally is stuck. i don't know what else to do. his one claw came out yesterday but it's all bent funny, and his other claw hasn't even started to come out

 

[newtots]

On the close up you can see how twisted his one claw is

 

[Pearl Dusenbery]

i know it's not about tarantulas but i've posted on several other forums and no one is helping so please if it's not allowed then delete it. i have a asian forest scorpion and he's in trouble. every one of his legs and his one claw are all stuck in the molt... i have him in an icu but it's not helping at all. it's been 48 hours that he's been stuck. he started the night of new years eve and is still in the same spot. he is still alive and trying to get out. is there any help for him or do i just have to watch him die???

I've never had a scorpion, but I have had a T that got stuck and I jacked up the humidity while keeping the heat around 80 degrees. Someone may have already suggested that but I didn't bother to read the rest. That's a serious emergency and I wanted to help as much as I could. Hope it helps. Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[newtots]

after talking to a few knowledgeable people about it, we have decided the kindest thing is to euthanize it because it's been almost 3 full days the new exoskeleton would have already begun to harden in the position it's in. due to the stress of having to try and walk and function as it is, it would have only lived another few days. i don't want it to suffer any more than it already has. so even though it's incredibly difficult i think it's better this way. thank you to everyone who offered help

 

[MassExodus]

Sorry you lost one. The icu was all you could do(and I'm not really convinced of their effectiveness) Ive heard of people "helping" to free inverts that were partially stuck, it usually didn't end well. Yours was more than partially stuck from the sound of it.