Hopefully there will be someone who raises scorpions that can help me here. What average size is a 3i/4i scorpion? And what do you feed the little monsters?
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Size would depend entirely on the species. Do you have a certain species in mind?
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Mostly the Hotenttotta and Tityus species…and the bark scorpions…basically all but the Emporer and Forest scorpions. Looking at desert species mostly.
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I can’t seem to find any info about the size at a specific instar for any of those (I’ve been researching Hottentotta recently myself). One very rudimentary way you could estimate is to take the typical max size for a species, and divide it by the number of instars it takes to reach max size to find a really rough ballpark growth rate per instar. I can’t guarantee it will be the most accurate, but it makes sense to me for estimating an enclosure size for a possible new arrival. Certainly wouldn’t use that method for any scientific data though!
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That kinda makes sense to me as well. I appreciate it!
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