Actually you should be able to find some Xystodesmids in the wild since your profile says you're from Kentucky.
Example: https://bugguide.net/node/view/782904
When I find Polydesmids in the wild its usually by peeling back the bark of rotting logs. I've found them alongside ant colonies under...
Mine just molted to maturity after about a year. I found her to be voracious, fast growing, and hardy. I always set her up with a slanted piece of bark and she'd make an elaborate webby home behind it. Plenty of ventilation and a small water dish, and she almost never refused food. She'd eat one...
I pretty much only buy slings now. I'd much rather have them for longer and slings are so cheap compared to adults... With adults too you don't really know how old they are either so even getting a female means she might not live as long as you'd like.
Yes, I have a few growing babies isolated in a small plastic dish between two moist cotton rounds so I can check on them every day and they won't go anywhere :)
Hopefully more pics to come as they get bigger
This is the same embryo from : http://arachnoboards.com/gallery/trigoniulus-corallinus-pupoid.52640/
48 hours later the limb buds have become limbs, the mouth is opening and closing, the dimple for the anus now has its own tergite, and even the collum is visible!
After I caught my Scarlet millipedes mating, I separated the female and found a handful of eggs to monitor.
This is the pupoid stage, where antennal buds and limb buds are visible, as well as indentions for the mouth and anus.
I wonder if the "Asian Forest Scorpions" at PetSmart are emperors with this sudden boom of ACTUAL emperors. It might be worth checking next time I'm there.
Yeah, there were originally 5 in the enclosure but I lost 2. So now there are 3, and they all have their own hiding spots. They share the enclosure with some millipedes as well and the two groups don't seem to pay much attention to each other.
So after the first pregnant female died unexpectedly, I have two VERY pregnant females. You can see the eggs inside growing and developing.
Now that we're finally at this stage, should I separate the pregnant ones into their own enclosures or let them be in the main enclosure? I've never gotten...
!!! woah I think this means my little Dig is the Nicaraguan form. I got really lucky with her.
In this case I got mine as a 'rescue' and he didn't know much about what had, so I'm not sure that you could tell unless you got it from a breeder / at an expo etc that had them marked or knew.
Well, by definition all pedes are fossorial, meaning they're evolutionarily adapted for burrowing.
Whether any given pede chooses to seems pretty individual. I have two polymorphas that rarely burrow and instead curl up along the side of the cage, my dehanni only burrowed as much as it needed...
As long as you can take care of them all...
But either way I have my own workspace and that's where I keep them so for my guy it's out of sight, out of mind and he doesn't think much about how many are in there. So you might want to consider having some of them not-in-the-bedroom if you want to...
I've noticed my slings generally like taller over wider containers so they can make a nice burrow, but it looks deep enough it should be fine after you put a few more holes in. A built in magnifying glass sounds cool...
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