For most scorpions mating is needed to produce youngs. Most Hottentotta species can be kept communal as adults and mating takes place whenever they want. If you keep them seperately you'll have to put them together and hope they are in the mood for mating.

If the male is interested he will use his pectines to find the female. When he finds her he will grab her pincers and start the mating dance. At some point the male starts trembling and he will place a spermweb on a piece of stone or cork. This spermweb is also known as a spermatophore. The male will then pull the female over the spermatophore to impregnate her. If mating is succesfull the female will give birth after a couple of moths.