Feeding Your Pet Scorpion

Scorpions are opportunistic predators and use their pincers to catch their prey. They will then crush the prey, or inject it with their toxic venom, so it can be eaten.

Wild scorpions will eat a variety of bugs, insects and small lizards. Your pet scorpion will have a primary diet of crickets and other insects such as mealworms and moths. An adult Emperor Scorpion needs only 3 to 6 crickets a week, fed to them every other day.

The crickets that you feed your pet scorpion should be fed a nutritious diet so that the nutritional values can be passed on to your pet. Crickets can be dusted with a quality reptile supplement every couple of feedings.

Night feedings will more naturally duplicate a scorpion’s normal feeding habit.
Scorpions can only digest food in a liquid form. Any solid matter (fur, exoskeleton, etc) is disposed of by the scorpion.

Make sure that your scorpion has a shallow, sturdy water dish, no more than half and inch deep. If you have more than one scorpion, you should provide more than one water dish. Clean the dish regularly and provide fresh water on a daily basis.

Adult scorpions may refuse to eat for extended periods, so you should not be alarmed as long as the normal physical characteristics and habits do not change, or deteriorate. This fasting can last several months in some healthy adults.

Young scorpions, on the other hand, will eat almost constantly as they grow.