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