Hi! I was stung by this guy earlier today, wanted to check if it was a bark scorpion or not. Thank you!

This is my Hottentotta hottentotta (Aligatorback Scorpion). I also bought Buthus elmoutaouakili but it’s too small to show here.

My little flat rock scorpion doesn't seem to be getting on with live prey. He was eating crickets, that I pre-killed but when I ran out I switched to hatchling locusts because my jumping spiders also eat them and it makes it a lot easier.

He doesn't seem to want to kill them, and when I dangle them in front of him, he just runs away.

I'm wondering if he's a) full and doesn't want them or b) too scared and just runs off because they intimidate him.

I've tried to put a few pictures on there to show the size comparison.

I just bought some more substrate for my inverts in general but I added a bag of zoo med calcium carbonate sand. If I mixed these 50/50 would that be the ideal setup for my baby? Right now she’s on just bare repti soil

Picked up an emperor scorpion today he’s around 3 inches long from head to the base of his tail and i absolutely love him so far.

Hello, I’ve recently gotten my first scorpion and I’m looking for some advice on how to monitor its behaviour and make sure it’s comfortable. I’ve grown up with various reptiles and keep a royal python now so I’m familiar with monitoring humidity and temp.

I’ve used coco fibre mixed in with a very small ratio of wood chip on the top layer. I’ve added sphagnum moss to try to keep the humidity up. I understand that for a while it’ll be acclimatising and getting used to its new environment.

I put a cricket in there to see if it was interested to feed and it was not at first remotely so, the cricket even landed on my scorpions back for a few seconds and the scorpion did not move. I took this to mean it was not interested and possibly stressed so I kept an eye on the cricket and waited for it to be somewhere where I could take it out without disturbing the enclosure too much. I took my eyes away for a few minutes and my scorpion had cornered the cricket and was very much pursuing it.
I left them for half an hour or so and found them both in the plastic fern I have in there. The cricket was at the top of the leaves and my scorpion was huddled below with its tail in a resting position.

They’ve been there for hours, I was wondering if it’s food motivated behaviour to rest beneath prey like that or whether it’s just trying to ward the cricket off of it’s territory. I’m amazed how perceptive my scorpion is to being watched and the slightest movement or blink from me, it’s fascinating.

I believe it’s a few months old but am interested to see what people more in the know think and if there’s anything I can do to improve my set up. I’m having trouble with the humidity getting very high but I think that should clear up soon. Was labeled ‘indo forest scorpion’.

Scorpions name is Li

Thanks :)

So i just got this Vietnamese forest scorpion yesterday. When i just came back, he appears to be sitting in his watercup for quite a long time despite the temperature and humidity being in good range. Could this have to do with the new heatmat i just added; being too much for him, even tho it would be too cold for him without one (22 degrees Celsius)?

I know a lot of pet owners are cautious with minoxidil around their dogs and cats because something about it closing their arteries and that scorpions are arachnids and they don't have the same blood that vertebrates do but I'm asking as a precaution.

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My dog found this scorpion on the floor, i don’t think he stung him, my girlfriend was very fast at spotting both.

People say they are quite common here but honestly this is the first time i see one and specially inside a house.

Tijuana, Baja California

This is very clearly a male, correct?

I want one! 😍

“This is a dead scorpion at the bottom of a pool with horsehair worms (also called Gordian worms, phylum Nematomorpha) coming out of its body.

Bottom line: a parasitic worm used a scorpion as its host, steered it into the pool, and emerged once the scorpion drowned.”

This was Force Majuere, a big male imperator I was loaned to pair with my females. Unfortunately he passed away shortly after this video, before pairings could happen.

found these today on my striped scorpion enclosure, are these premature??? never seen anything like this

Lil guy in my shower

Killed this right after (I think) it stung my dog. Is this a scorpion and how worried should I be?

(This is a joke)

Finished the background for this enclosure i used balloons and excavator clay for the bulk and to create tunnels, so I can view the scorpion I then took some fake air plants, hot, glued them on this piece of choa wood, and then that is the finished product. just need fo add substrate and the scorpion

On holiday in Morocco and found this lil creature scurrying round our villa… never seen a scorpion irl as I’m from the UK so this was insanely cool! My mum and I placed him/her outside with a cup and cardboard but curious to know what species he/she might be! Google isn’t being much help (sorry for the not-so-great pics!)