Their tank was due for a good cleaning anyway, since the plants had gotten really overgrown. I love Castra. I'm moving stuff around in the tank and digging out plants, and out she wanders, demanding dinner. (She's always done this when she gets hungry, ever since I first brought her home.) So I get her a roach, and for the next 4 hours as I'm cleaning up the rest of the room, she keeps popping out with her roach as if to say "Thank you!". At one point I walk in and she's got it pressed up against the glass in the middle of the tank with the lights blazing away. I think she wondered where I went.
Mom will feed the babies bits of what she's having when they're little, but either hers got too big or the roach was just too good to share, and right after I snapped that last one she side swipes the little dude with her tail and he flies back into the tunnel! Was not expecting that to happen.
She's a greedy gus, that's for sure!
I counted five babies in the tunnels tonight. I've yet to see more than that at once, but I seeing how fast they can polish off 3 dozen small crickets I'm pretty sure there's 9 or 10 of them in there somewhere.
Glad to hear there are many babies surviving, and it looks like they have grown a ton!
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Most pet stores don't realize they need extremely high humidity and a water bowl, and set them up like desert scorps instead. There aren't many tropical species that are widely available - Emps are on a CITES hold for at least a few years and can't be found commercially anymore because they cannot be imported. The stores have switched over to Asian Forest Scorpions instead, which are a little nastier in temperament and have a more powerful sting and are a bit smaller, but they have the same general care as Emps. Those are really the only two that are widely sold.