What food is best for feeding scorpions
Scorpions are arachnid arthropods with a long history, and they are venomous animals, but in traditional Chinese medicine they are a medicinal material. Wild scorpions are nationally protected animals, but artificially bred scorpions can be bought and sold and used as medicinal material. When breeding scorpions artificially, the first question that comes to mind is what to feed them. How to feed scorpions and which feeding methods are more beneficial - let us now learn some scorpion feeding techniques together.
1. Feed
The main feed is earthworms, which scorpions like to eat; when feeding, scald them to death with boiling water and cut them into pieces. Scorpions are carnivorous animals and like to eat soft and juicy worms, and can be fed a variety of small insects. For example, ground beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, house flies, and yellow mealworms. Common foods for scorpions also include meat feeds such as pork, chicken, frog meat, and sparrow meat. These nutritious feeds are suitable for pregnant scorpions. There are also mixed feeds, processed feeds such as bran, flour, and sugar.
2. Feeding time
Generally, each scorpion can be fed once and then go several days without eating, but the timing is not uniform, so it is still necessary to feed every day. In this way, ensure that every scorpion does not go hungry. The specific feeding time of day is before dark; two hours before feeding, give water first. After that, feed the scorpions. The reason for choosing this time is that scorpions hide during the day and come out at night. Feeding in the evening this way means the scorpions will eat a bit more.
3. Feeding amount
The number of insects put in is relatively large; high-protein insects are the main feed, while things like ground beetles that are not juicy and not soft can only be used as a supplement. Do not feed too much at one time; if leftovers remain inside and rot and give off an odor, the food later placed in that spot will not be eaten. The amount put in should be just enough to be eaten up right after feeding, with no leftovers. If you do not know at first, you will know after feeding a few more times.
4. Precautions
Pay attention to feeding a diverse mix of feeds, not a single feed; or the feed fed must be clean and not rotten. Fresh and juicy insects; in scorpion breeding, special care must be given to pregnant female scorpions, and feeding should be done carefully. Scorpions only have a certain ability to regulate body temperature. It is best to breed them at a constant temperature. Breeding the same size in the same breeding pool makes feeding convenient.
Scorpions mainly eat small insects to supplement nutrition for growth, and pregnant scorpions need nutritious feed. The mixed grain-type feed is mainly a supplementary food. But in normal times. Feeding should be matched, and it should feel relatively rich and nutritious.