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Cupid has done a number of peculiar things... here are a few of them...


  • I was cleaning Cupid's home the other day as a Christmas gift to Cupid.  I spent some good money at a local pet store and got him some organic "Jungle Mix" (GREAT substrate btw! 5 times more expensive than potting soil though!).  I picked up the large rock that Cupid usually hides under and he wasn't there!  Cupid has dug a HUGE burrow.  Check it out!!!

    I wasn't able to replace all of Cupid's soil because I didn't feel like disturbing him, so I just scraped away a few inches of the soil from the surface and recovered it will the new stuff.
     

  • A few days after I got Cupid, I had to clean his cage because of mold that had started growing on the vermiculite.  After getting it all cleaned out and fresh vermiculite added, I made a small hole and covered it with his favorite piece of balsa bark.  He slept in that hole that whole day.  That night, after making a meal of a small cricket, he proceeded to fill the burrow he had slept in.

    That day he slept between the balsa bark and wall of tank.

    Arising the next night, he dug the hole back out under the bark, but moved his entryway to the backside.

  • Making a meal of a small meal worm.  Now this was great to watch.  Cupid was still living in a small cage type thing with about 1/4 inch of vermiculite for substrate.  I thought I would give him a good change of meals with a mealworm.  As usual, he wasn't interested right away and the mealworm started its way into the substrate.

    About an hour later, I heard some noise.  I knew that it had to be Cupid and he was hungry.  I thought he was eating since he was in the area that the mealworm was last at.  Boy was I wrong.  I looked down and saw the mealworm crawling in the substrate, along the plastic wall.  I could see it clearly crawling around in the stuff. 

    With the great sensory hairs scorpions have, Cupid was quick to catch the mealworm's location and was soon right on top of it.  From here I could only watch for about a half hour.  It was a long trial. 

    The mealworm felt Cupid move, so it, in turn, stopped moving.  For about 30 minutes, it was: mealworm move, Cupid move, mealworm stop, Cupid stop, mealworm move, Cupid move... I think you get the idea.

    He did eventually get it...

  • I worry too much about the climate inside Cupid's terrarium.  I used to have to use a kitchen thermometer to check the temperature.  One night I left it in when I went to bed.

    While I was slowly drifting off to sleep, I heard Cupid playing around in his tank. I didn't think too much of it, but eventually got up and turned on my blacklight just to kill some time and hopefully bring myself closer to sleep. I looked over and didn't see the usual green glow I expected to see from around his water or burrow. Rather, he was climbing around the top of the tank!! The lid was just grated plastic.

    Apparently, Cupid was able to climb up the thermometer and grasp on the little slots that make up the lid. It was quite a site to see.

    I let him play around as he seemed to be having fun for a few minutes until I removed the lid and let him scurry of back into his burrow...

 

 


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