Scorpion diseases are generally divided into physiological diseases caused by environmental factors, pathogenic diseases caused by harmful bacteria and obstetric diseases. So what are the causes, symptoms and prevention methods of common scorpion diseases?

Rainforest scorpion

Also known as belly disease, dyspepsia. It is a digestive system disease that is prone to occur in early spring and late autumn. This is a common disease of digestive dysfunction caused by poor feeding and management.

[Cause]

The temperature is low, the scorpion eats too much, indigestion, and causes abdominal distension.

[Symptoms]

The main symptoms are decreased appetite, inactive and inactive prey. The abdomen is distended due to the volume of gas in the stomach and intestines. Due to the reduced digestive capacity, the food stays in the digestive tract for too long, and the gas produced by fermentation accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract, thereby distending the abdomen. Due to the abnormal intestinal movement, the sick scorpion has abnormal feces. If no measures are taken, the scorpion can be killed. Once a pregnant scorpion becomes sick, it can cause the termination of embryonic development in the body or infertility.

【Prevention and Control】

If you find that you suffer from abdominal distension, you should immediately stop feeding for a few days, and slowly adjust the temperature to above 20°C. Prevention is to keep warm in spring and late autumn when the temperature is low, and try to feed as little as possible to ensure the normal digestive ability of scorpions, which can prevent the occurrence of this disease.

Yeast flakes and rhubarb soda flakes are ground and dissolved in water to make a liquid of about 35%. It is best to add a little iodized salt, spray the body of the scorpion, and heat it at the same time to promote the activity of the scorpion, so as to enhance digestion , Absorption capacity, speed up the digestion and absorption of excess nutrients in the body.

Black rot is also known as body rot.

[Cause]

Mostly due to food spoilage, moldy and other spoiled feed, spoiled or spoiled feed insects, unclean drinking water, or healthy scorpion food After the scorpion corpse is sick and dead, it will lead to the occurrence of black rot.

[Symptoms]

In the early stage of the disease, the scorpion's front abdomen was black and distended, and the activity decreased or did not go out of the acupoints, and the appetite was poor or even bad, and then the Black putrefactive ulcerative lesions appear in the abdomen, and black filth will flow out when gently squeezed by hand. Diseased scorpions mostly die immediately when the lesions are formed. The disease course is short, the mortality rate is high, the body of the dead scorpion is loose, and the tissue is liquefied.

【Prevention and Control】

The disease is mainly based on prevention, and there is no specific medicine for the diseased scorpion. Ensure that the feed and feed insects are fresh and delicious, the drinking water is clean, wash the pots (food dishes, water dishes, sponges, etc.) frequently, and promptly remove the remains of the feed insects and the dead or discolored feed insects in the scorpion pond. If the source of the disease is found, immediately stack the pond, pick out the dead scorpion, and spray and disinfect the dead scorpion pond comprehensively. Use 0.3% potassium permanganate or 1%~2% formalin or 1:600 times solution to kill the poison. Spray disinfection of floors, walls, stacking bricks, and scorpion pools.

[Preventive measures]

During normal feeding, regular medication is given for prevention. The specific method is: first stop feeding scorpions for 2~3 days, and then feed them later A small amount of fresh feed worms. Feed insect block and feed, feed scorpions at night, and those who have been domesticated to eat compound feed can be directly fed with medicinal materials (1) 0.5 grams of rhubarb soda tablets, 0.1 grams of oxytetracycline, 100 grams of compound feed, mix well and feed; (2) 0.5 grams of baking soda tablets, 0.1 grams of medium-acting or long-acting sulfonamide, mixed with 500 grams of compound feed and fed; (3) 1 gram of multivitamins, 0.5 grams of erythromycin, 100 grams of compound feed, mixed well and fed .

Spot mildew is also known as fungal disease. It is a highly seasonal disease, generally concentrated in the high temperature season, and often infected in the area. Scorpions show different symptoms.

[Etiology]

The scorpion nest is humid (more than 20% humidity) for a long time and the temperature is high, which is suitable for a large number of fungi in this environment Breeding, and taking advantage of the chance that the resistance of the scorpion body is greatly reduced under high temperature, high humidity, as the respiratory tract and digestive tract invade the body, it infects the main internal organs of the scorpion body, causing dysfunction of the body, and even pathological changes of the internal organs. Pathogenic, resulting in fatal lesions.

【Symptoms】

In the early stage of the disease, the sick scorpion was extremely restless, climbed to high places or dry places, greatly decreased appetite, sluggish action, and then The back abdomen can not be curled, the muscles are slack, the whole body is soft, and the color and luster fades. In severe cases, small yellowish-brown or reddish-brown mildew spots of different sizes appear on the head, chest and anterior abdomen. Reduced activity, sluggish action, no obvious negative phototaxis, no food, and death after a few days. The corpse is full of green moldy mass, which is the mycelium that consumes the nutrients in the scorpion and grows into mycelium.

[Preventive measures]

The disease should be mainly prevented and feeding management should be strengthened. The methods are: 1. Regular disinfection, while adjusting the environmental humidity to ensure that the soil humidity is between 10% and 15%. When the humidity is low, it can be sprayed and disinfected with 100 poison (1:600); 2. For the dead or discolored feed insects Clean up in time to prevent mildew in the feed; 3. Select the dead scorpions as soon as possible.

【Treatment method】

1. Oxytetracycline (0.25 mg/tablet) 1 tablet, yeast tablet 1.5 tablet, add 400 ml of water, after dissolving , Use tweezers or chopsticks to clamp the back abdomen of the scorpion, and force to drink water, twice a day, 2 days can be cured; 2. When the environment is dry, press 0.125 grams of griseofulvin per kilogram of water (dissolved in alcohol first and then made into 0.5 % aqueous solution) or 100 poison (1:600 dilution) spray (can be sprayed on the scorpion body).