NO NOT THIS KIND OF PLATE!!!!!

This is one of Cupid's favorite sections.  I don't blame him, anything I have to say about food works for me as well.

Cupid, as most scorpion, live great on crickets.  In fact, that is all that most people will ever feed their scorpion.  Cupid likes change in his diet.  Mostly he eats crickets.  On occasion he'll have a mealworm.

Scorpions will eat pretty much anything that they can get their claws on.  If they're hungry they'll eat it.  Which brings us to our next point, over feeding.

This is somewhat controversial, and Cupid hasn't helped me out here.  Some people claim that you should only feed your scorpion about 3 times a week, or every other day.  Others will tell you it doesn't matter how often you feed them.  Scorpions can, and will, fast from time to time.  Some have been known to fast upwards of a year without any harm. 

The most important thing is to only feed them at night.  When you go to bed should be sufficient.  Scorpions are nocturnal, feeding them during the day would be like having someone wake you up in the middle of the night to have dinner.  Also, don't throw all the crickets or other food items in all at once.  Imagine if everything you bought at the grocery store was live and running around your house (cows, chickens, pigs, whatnot)

There are many, many different things that scorpions will eat.  Pretty much the 2 factors that go into consideration for me are:

• Pocketbook - how much to I have to spend for a weeks amount of food
• Nutrition - will Cupid be missing any vitamins or getting too much fat
  *general nutrition info at bottom of the page

There are many things that you can get your scorpion to eat.  Most of these are best for an occasional treat.  They are:

• Superworms - These are large 2 inch beetle larvae. They are apparently more nutritious than normal mealworms and are obviously more of a meal for large scorpions.
• Hissing Cockroaches - These are large roaches and make great pets in their own right. They can be fairly expensive to buy as food but if you breed them then you can feed the scorpions any excess ones that you don't need.  For large scorps only.
• Mice - You can feed emperors defrosted pinkies or fuzzies though scorpions usually prefer them live. They are apparently quite nutritious, though are obviously more expensive than crickets. For large scorps only.
• Mantids (Mantodea) - Otherwise known as Praying Mantis. Scorpions apparently love them.  Of course it would be impractical and expensive to feed your scorpions mantids on a regular basis.

There are also other things you can feed your scorpions that I haven't tried yet, including small lizards such as anoles or geckos, grasshoppers, moths, waxworms or small snakes.

 I suggest you throw the food down the burrow when you are feeding the scorpion, or drop it just in front of the burrow. This will make it easy to catch, and will prevent the food getting away and hiding around the plants etc, where they will eventually die of starvation and begin to rot in the tank, attracting mites, fungus and fruit flies. If the food is not eaten and crawls out of the burrow then remove it and offer it later. The scorpions are probably not hungry and may be coming up to a molt if they are immature, and a cricket running about the cage could be dangerous. Also if the cricket is not removed it will lay eggs in the substrate if it is a pregnant female.

Water

Cupid loves his water. When I first got him, and put him into his temporary home, he scuttled over to his water dish and drank. I've also seen him lay in it a time or two.

It is important to have a shallow water dish to allow for such activities. Cupid would like to point out the key word as shallow. Don't get one that is too deep, or your scorpion can drown. Cupid's dish is from a glass jar from tartar sauce, I think it was.

Make sure you wash your water dish a couple times a week with anti-bacterial soap. This is pretty much self explanatory.