A Detailed Guide to Scorpion Farming Methods and Key Technical Points

Scorpions are actually not as frightening as everyone imagines. They have high medical value, and market demand is relatively good, so the farming prospects are decent too. So, what are the methods for farming scorpions?

1. Building the farming site

Generally, an uninhabited empty house or a shed is chosen for building the farming pool. The scorpion pool is built by stacking red bricks and cement, and a layer of sand about 6 cm thick is spread and packed firmly on the bottom of the pool. Plastic film or glass is attached around the inside of the pool to create smooth walls and prevent the scorpions from escaping.

2. Feed and feeding

Scorpions are typical carnivores. They like soft, juicy insects such as mosquitoes, flies, mantises, spiders and crickets, and a very small number of species will also take in a small amount of plant-based feed. Therefore, feeding scorpions should mainly be based on meat-based food. The animal feed for scorpions can be obtained by trapping: leave a hole about 25 cm in diameter in the roof, hang a lamp above the hole, and place a funnel under the light. Turn on the light near dusk to lure mosquitoes, spiders and the like into falling into the scorpion pool. Crickets, maggots and other insects can also be raised and bred as feed.

For the scorpions' drinking water, sponge, cotton or other highly absorbent cloth can be soaked with clean water and placed in the scorpion pool. Every 3 to 5 days, an antibiotic-type drug (oxytetracycline, sulfonamide, etc.) can be added to the scorpions' drinking water, with each tablet mixed into about 4 kg of cool boiled water. After stirring evenly, let the sponge absorb it and place it in the scorpion pool.

3. Constant temperature management

When the temperature reaches 10°C or higher, scorpions begin to resume normal growth. When the temperature is below 10°C, they begin to hibernate. Practice has shown that scorpions grow and reproduce fastest at 28-38°C, and they are active for the longest time and eat the most at this range. Therefore, when the temperature is too low, heating equipment should be installed in the farming site to keep the temperature between 28-38°C, with the relative air humidity maintained between 60%-80%, and water supplied in the same way as in summer.

4. Humidity management

The optimal air humidity in the farming site should be 45%-50%. The moisture content of the sand should be between 15%-20%, so that the sand is neither dry nor wet and people do not feel the scorpion room is stuffy. Special attention should be paid to the fact that the sand should not be too damp, otherwise the scorpions will develop powdery mite disease and die.

Farming scorpions is actually not difficult, and their reproduction rate is very fast, but beginners had best do it under the guidance of professionals.