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Our
subjects have some times of the troubles
which can degenerate. With these pages
it will be easier to you of given for
which reason a specimen does not go well,
and can be to help you to look after
it.
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The
scorpions
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Nematodes:
The scorpions are naturally parasitized in their land of origin
by various nematodes, they are the small
ones towards which, most of the time, does
not pose a problem. Only, the various stresses
generated by the capture, the travel and
the captivity, weaken the defensive systems
of the scorpion and at this time there, the
parasites take the top and manage to make
die their host.
There
is alas, no means of knowing if your scorpion
is parasitized or not, according to some
researchers 2/3 of the scorpions taken in
nature would be carrying these parasites.
It is not possible to manage an unspecified
purging with the scorpion in order to eliminate
these nematodes.
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Acarina :
The acarina are the parasites most usually meet on the scorpions.
Whether it is in natural environments or
breeding. For most of the time it is not
necessary to worry, however acarina are much
more aggressive than others and come to place
themselves on the level of the chelicera
and on the articulations of the various appendices
of the scorpion. Now we suppose that
these parasites prick the skin in order to
be nourished. It is possible besides that
the acarina, by their puncture, weaken the
scorpion and that they can to also bring
diseases them. These acarina seem indifferent
to the nature of the substrate used, but
proliferous in tropical terrariums (wet and
hot).
It
is very difficult to get rid of these acarina.
The changes of substrate and the cleaning
of terrariums do nothing but slow down the
development of the eradic population but
it step. We tested several solutions with
more or less success. The first consists
in whitewashing the places where places the
acarina on the scorpions, with household
soap. It is then necessary to insulate the
scorpion in a pot with slightly wet paper
absorbing during a few times. Another solution
was to get other acarina to us... But those
are the predatory ones, and attack the other
acarina. According to various tests in various
stockbreeders, the tests one were rather
very conclusive, but that did not prevent
the acarina from returning by the means of
the crickets raised out of battery and sold
in the trade to nourish the animals.
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The phorid flies :
Phorid flies are small flies of the size of a drosophila.
It is not too this fly which worry us but
his larva. Indeed, this larva is carnivorous,
contrary to the larvae of the drosophilas
which them are frugivorous. The phorides
are generally involuntarily imported with
limp of crickets bought in the trade. These
flies will cause damage at the time of the
moults of scorpion. The flies comes to lay
an egg on the new skin and far from solid
from the scorpion, the larva will leave this
egg in very little time and will begin carnage.
This larva will perforate the skin of the
scorpion and will devour it interior, and
like the fly laid several tens of eggs, the
larvae spend only a few hours to empty a
scorpion of average size.
On
the first pictures you have the difference
between a phorid flies and a drosophila,
on the second here the result at the time
of the moult of one Centruroides
margaritatus.
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