How to raise scorpions? Scorpion farming experience revealed

Common misconceptions about scorpion farming 

A reality check for everyone thinking about raising scorpions. Scorpion prices have soared recently, and besides high market demand and low supply, the scorpion farming craze is part of the reason. Many people see advertisements and jump into farming, only to lose everything, mainly because they don't understand scorpion farming well enough.

First, scorpions have a long farming cycle, so results are definitely slow. If you want returns, it takes at least a year. Because scorpions grow at different rates, even the fastest constant-temperature farming takes about 10 months. Claims that they can grow to full size in five or six months are simply impossible.

Scorpion venom: for small-scale farms, extracting scorpion venom is generally not recommended, because extracting the venom is easy but purifying and preserving it is hard. More importantly, no one even buys it. Those who claim to buy scorpion venom are seed-scammers spreading false information to get you to buy scorpions. After venom extraction, a scorpion needs at least a month of rest before it can grow and reproduce normally. Scorpion venom is usually only extracted for deep processing once you have reached a certain scale.

Profit: invest ten or twenty thousand and make hundreds of thousands in profit? If that were really true, wouldn't everyone be rich? Scorpion farming has a long cycle. If you do it well, you can indeed make money later on, but raising 5,000 scorpions costs over ten thousand, and when you succeed, your net profit is only about ten thousand. It's only after two or three years that profits increase. This is a long-term endeavor with relatively high returns.

Scorpion farming is easy to learn at a glance, so why have so few people succeeded? Learning about scorpion farming is necessary, but learning alone doesn't mean you'll succeed. You must be careful yourself and gradually accumulate experience through practice.

More and more people are farming scorpions, so it's no longer profitable. I'm speechless at this kind of thinking. Scorpion farming needs scale. Only with scale can the market be driven. The more people farming, the better, because then more people will research it, technology will become more and more mature, more people will use it, and the market will expand further. Only with more farming can the market be opened up.

Farming scorpions is less profitable than scamming with breeding stock. Maybe there are too many seed-scammers now, which gives people this impression. Scamming with breeding stock has a short profit cycle and high short-term profits, but can you keep doing it forever? As long as you can raise scorpions well, the cost is definitely much lower, so when you sell scorpions, wouldn't your profit be higher than scamming with breeding stock? It's just that the early stage is more difficult. Later, when you have many scorpions yourself, you can make more money than those shady tricks. And once scorpion farming reaches scale, the market will have to listen to the farmers, rather than the current situation where wild scorpions dominate the market and everything depends on the scorpion market.

You can raise scorpions in your spare time. Nonsense. Scorpion farming is a very demanding task. When you first start, for at least two or three months you need to devote all your energy to the scorpions every day. Especially when the mother scorpions give birth, you'll be very busy. Only later, once you control the birthing time well, will it become a bit more relaxed. But that doesn't mean you can just feed the scorpions once every four or five days and ignore them the rest of the time. If you truly want to raise scorpions well, you must clean and feed them every day, and separate and feed the birthing scorpions one by one to increase the survival rate. It is absolutely not something you can do well in your spare time. You can raise them in your spare time, but raising 1,000 scorpions for a year won't even cover your costs.

In short, if you raise scorpions well, you will definitely make money, but not everyone can do it well. Don't let others' talk of big profits go to your head and make you invest your entire life savings, only to regret it when you realize you've been fooled. As the saying goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Taking things one solid step at a time is the only real way.

Why can't scorpions from seed-scammers be raised successfully

Many friends think that seed-scammers who sell scorpions just don't provide technical guidance, and that the scorpions are all the same, so why can't they keep them alive?

1. First, most breeding scorpions sold by seed-scammers are wild scorpions. Wild scorpions like to fight, die easily, have long reproduction cycles, and produce few offspring.

2. No technical guidance provided. If you already know how to raise scorpions yourself, it seems like nothing, but without technical knowledge, you'll waste at least one or two years figuring things out on your own.

3. Many friends experience mass deaths after buying breeding scorpions. The symptoms are roughly like this: the scorpions become shriveled, thin and weak, refuse to eat, won't enter their burrows, move with difficulty, and die within a few days. This is caused by the seed-scammers keeping the breeding scorpions in a low-temperature environment the whole time, just keeping them alive. At temperatures of ten to twenty degrees, scorpions rarely eat, only consuming without eating. Their internal nutrients and moisture are heavily depleted. When you buy them and the temperature rises, their metabolism speeds up and consumption is even faster, but nutrition can't keep up, so they slowly die. This is somewhat similar to spring death in wild scorpions.

Some breeding scorpions are very cheap, but I hope everyone will investigate carefully before farming scorpions. Don't let a small bargain lead to regret. No matter how eloquently others praise something, you should only believe it after seeing it with your own eyes.