When I looked tonight, I thought I saw more definition to the scorplings than usual, so I risked removing the hide for some photography. And what do you know? They've begun molting to second instar!
Compared to my photo from last week, you can see that there's less "pudge," and they were also eager to scurry from mom's back at my disturbing them. In the next photo, you can see one of the molts on mom's carapace.
Either this species remains white at 2I, or I caught them recently enough that no one has had a chance to darken.
I'm thinking of removing mom from this container when the young scatter and trying a "juvenile community," to see if it's like emperor scorpions (juveniles do fine together) or bark scorpions (juveniles happily snack on each other). As these are forest scorpions, I'm hoping for the former, but I have heard of cannibalism in this species when different sizes were kept together.
Update from 7/26: More have molted and began to darken up.
1 comment:
Do you know how to tell if a emperor scorpion is pregnate, i recelently got her and she is already quite big, I have a male too and he wont go near her does that mean she might be pregnate
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