Scorpions?

Dyr

Anyone tried keeping these fellas? im doing some research and giving consideration to getting one (Hopefully a desert species) but i've never kept an invert or anything like that, so i've no practical experience. Any spider owners or similar wanna give me some tips on hardware/enironment setups in ireland etc? are plastic kreature keepers, heat mats, decent thermostats etc easy to get here?

and crickets: how long do the wee *****ds live after purchase? I dont wanna be buying some every week if i can help


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tovalee

i cant help with the scorpions, but as far as the crickets: huge pain! i kept an injured toad i found in my garden for a while and the biggest hassle was the crickets. they seem to need relatively alot of water if you want them to live for more than a day or so before you feed them to your critter. but if you put any sort of dish in the cricket container, they'll drown themselves. i think you can get some type of gel that they can get moisture from. i used cotton balls that i soaked in water,it worked ok, but dried out quick. i found meal worms to be less trouble. side note: toady healed up nicely and is back in the garden where i see him occassionaly

Bottle_of_Smoke

Don't know what you're doing wrong with the crickets. They live for ages in a plastic case. just moisten some tissue with water every few days and throw em some fish food\organic veg(non-organic likely to have insecticides somewhere along the way)

My main beef with em is the noise they make, though it is only the adult males who "sing", best off gettin black medium size ones.

Our man in Havana

We just chuck in veg & fruit every few days & fish food or turtle pellets - they live for 2-3 weeks.

Black crickets are EVIL noisy beggers! Have a family living in the wall I think! YUCK! Would have no idea about scorpions not something I want living in my house thanks, managed to kill off all of my stick insects & think the cockroach thingies are dead (Too afraid to look! the big ones grown wings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

tovalee

i lived in florida for a few years. they have huge cockroaches,they call them palmetto bugs, but i think thats because they dont want tourists finding out about the giant flying cockroaches that live EVERYWHERE down there... i still have the heebies thinking about them.