What issues need attention in artificial scorpion breeding?

As a medicinal animal, the scorpion has relatively high economic value, but most scorpion breeders fail and suffer economic losses due to a lack of necessary technology and experience, so scorpion breeders are reminded to pay attention to the following issues.

Master the scorpion's living habits. The scorpion is a small animal that likes warmth and fears light, and likes dampness but fears wetness; it also has the habit of squeezing into small cracks and preferring to live alone. If the conditions needed for the scorpion's growth and development cannot be met, it will grow extremely slowly or even die. During artificial breeding, the scorpion's natural living environment should be simulated as much as possible. According to the scale of scorpion breeding and the number of scorpions introduced, build scorpion pools of suitable size, and use stones, bricks or tiles in the pools to build walls with cracks, giving the scorpions spacious activity space, which helps increase the survival rate; at the same time, it can also increase the number raised per unit area, achieving a three-dimensional breeding effect. Select good breeding scorpions and maintain suitable density. Selecting good breeding scorpions is the foundation for developing artificial scorpion breeding. Breeding scorpions should be selected with medium size, strong physique and high reproduction rate, both male and female. Because scorpions have the instinct to kill each other, larger individuals kill smaller ones, and those that have not molted kill those that are molting. During the breeding process, attention should be paid to maintaining suitable stocking density, and they should be raised separately by size; consistent specifications help scorpions grow synchronously. Use constant-temperature rearing. The scorpion is a poikilothermic animal with the habit of hibernation, and during its growth and development it is most affected by temperature changes. In order to increase the reproduction rate of artificial scorpion breeding and make scorpions grow quickly, the scorpion's hibernation period must be eliminated and constant-temperature rearing carried out. At 28°C~30°C, scorpions are active for the longest time, consume the most food and grow and develop the fastest. Therefore, in winter, heating equipment should be installed in the scorpion facility, such as plastic greenhouses, or coal stoves for heating, so that the indoor temperature remains in the range of 60%~80%, but attention should be paid to indoor ventilation. Avoid a single feed. The scorpion is a carnivorous animal and likes to eat soft, juicy insects, so when feeding, animal-based feed should be the main type. At present, artificial breeding generally uses yellow mealworms as feed, but if a single feed is used for a long time, it will inevitably cause malnutrition in scorpions, so a variety of feeds should be prepared, such as adding earthworms, ground beetles, bran, etc. Watermelon rind is also a very good supplementary food for scorpions. In short, the more complex the feed, the more beneficial it is to the scorpion's growth and development. Scientific management during the molting period. After birth, a scorpion reaches sexual maturity only after 6 molts. If the scorpion cannot molt, growth and development will stop and it may die at any time. After birth, the young scorpion climbs onto the mother's back and molts for the first time after 5 days. This molting time is relatively consistent. After molting, after another 5~7 days, the young scorpion leaves the mother's back, and around 40 days later undergoes the 2nd molt. Due to differences in living environment, growth and development differ among individuals, causing the timing of the 2nd molt to vary. After that, it molts once every 50~60 days. During the molting period, the average daily temperature should be controlled at 25°C~30°C, the soil moisture content of the scorpion nest at 15%~20%, and the relative air humidity at about 80%. The scorpion enters a semi-dormant state one week before molting. After the scorpion molts, the new scorpion's body is soft and glossy, its body size increases markedly, its muscles are tender, and its resistance is weak, making it highly vulnerable to attack and being eaten by natural enemies or other scorpions. After the scorpion molts, when providing food, attention should be paid both to rich nutrition and to palatability and shell-feeding suitability, feeding little but often, to prevent scorpions from eating each other due to hunger. The food provided should mainly be yellow mealworm larvae, supplemented with substitutes. For the substitute, use 25% milk, 25% raw egg white, 45% flour (fried until fragrant), 3% brown sugar, 2% raw oil, mix into a paste, roll into small granules by hand, and place them on tender vegetable leaves. A small amount of multivitamins can be added to the substitute to speed up the growth of young scorpions. Practice has proved that the timing of scorpion molting is closely related to the cystine content in the body, so it is very necessary to appropriately add mouse meat to pregnant scorpions and young scorpions. A suitable amount of cystine solution can also be sprayed onto the yellow mealworms and other feed usually fed, indirectly increasing the cystine content in the scorpion's body. If cystine and vitamin drugs are evenly sprinkled on fresh watermelon rind or tender leaves and the scorpions are allowed to feed freely, the effect is even better. However, attention should be paid to promptly cleaning up leftover food to prevent spoilage.