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Old 07-26-2011, 05:40 PM   #1
Rabbit87
HELP! Baby Crickets invading emperor scorpion terrarium!!

I just recently cleaned my Emperor Scorpions terrarium because it had a ton of little baby crickets running around disturbing my poor scorpion. It has only been about a week and even though I thoroughly cleaned her terrarium and air dried it, there are baby crickets running around all over it again. I know this is stressing her out because she is not eating much. I noticed she just kills the large feeder crickets because she seems upset about the babies all over. I am going to clean her terrarium and change the substrate again today. I was just hoping to find some advice on what I can do/use to really sanitize the terrarium and what I could do to maybe keep this from happening?

10 gallon glass terrarium
Coconut Fiber Substrate
Sm. Log
Sm. Water Dish

Thanks for any help and advice
 
Old 07-27-2011, 07:22 AM   #2
angie.h
What is happening is that whenever you feed a large female cricket, it survives long enough to lay eggs in the coco fiber. Your problem is solved by either cutting off the ovopositor of the cricket or switching to a different substrate that isn't such a good laying medium for the crix. Or just be 100% sure your scorp eats it before it can lay eggs. If you only feed male crix, that would also solve your problem, but that might be a waste of large crix if you have no control over the sex of feeders that you buy.
 

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