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I was just about to re do my centipedes enclosure, this was very helpful, thanks. I have 2 ethmostigmus trigonopodus that ive been keeping together communally for a few months, I ve been mostly ignoring them but one of them was sitting on eggs last time i checked. She promptly ate them...

looks more like the ethmostigmus, it doesnt have a red head like the mortisans. Mone has reddish tails and pincers though, the pictures of ethmostigmus i found online didnt. I guess centipedes have different colour morphs though? This is my first giant centipede.

1 no, just add water to the substrate. Dont flood the bottom even if the top looks dry though. put leaves and bark on top so it retains moisture 2 dog food or fish food for protein, for calcium you can use tums as well if you have any. 3 mine like cucumber, water melon rinds, squash, apple...

new centipede just came in, labeled african red. can i get a species id if possible? 5-6 inches.

I think snails and sprintails would play nice with the petaserpes, As long as I keep stuff like centipedes and isopods away I might be fine. Maybe I could just peel wet logs apart and only take the white mouldy bits. Especially the logs the millipedes are living in. Thats doesnt sound like a...

I love millipedes but live in canada, so im limited to what i can collect. I collected some narceus americanus last summer, and they bred so well Ive started selling the juviniles off. I used topsoil, aspen/birch wood, and oak leaves. 2 other neat species ive seen near me are Pseudopolydesmus...

okay then ill just give her water and hope for the best then

I caught a juvinile dock spider(Dolomedes tenebrosus) while helping an inlaw with their dock this fall. Was 1-1.5 inches. It has shed twice, its now 1.5-2 inches. Today i saw she is holding a phantom egg sac. Is it best to let her sit on it for the next few weeks, or remove it? How do i pull...

Good news, I made a new enclosure, basically 1 inch of dirt substrate with foam(some guy down the street got a new tv) wall and roof. It loves the new foam wall. I could tell it could sense stuff moving nearby, cause it would retreat when i held crickets out to it with tweezers and they kicked...

thank you all for the advice. @l4nsky how exactly did it fail? Just how much waste do dubias produce? Scooping out half the substrate 2 twice a year wouldent be so bad, but once a month would be annoying. Also cant I just move them away from heat / feed less protein once the colony is at the...

I need a large feeder, so dubias are a natural choice. Never kept roaches of any kind before. I have millipedes, isopods, and mealworms though. I dont want to clean out their dry frass. I used to do this with superworms and dont want to go back. So I wanna try a wet deep substrate self...

Legs and claws are all fine, just the whips are gone. If they didnt come out in the moult or it threw them away after i dont know. I am a noob at whipspiders so if theres something else wrong Im not sure. I got it from an exotics store for cheap, so obviously its wild caught. thats good news...

Am keeping it in a 32oz deli cup with bark on an angle from one corner to another. Its an inch and a half or so in legspan now whith no whips. I had a friend house sitting over christmas so idk if what humidity was. I can see there are too many mites in there. For some reason it decided to moult...

Hmm thanks for the information. No way to know whats really in these then i guess

hmm okay, i hadnt considered it overheating. ill keep that in mind thanks. is the wood done when it stops releasing heat then?

2 questions: -are these stove pellets alright for millipedes(narceus americanus)? anyone here use something like this succesfully? says on the bag "not for consumption" "wood stoves only" "up to 5% softwood" and "no chemicals+additives" but idk if that matters. They are 1/5th the price of the...

Thanks for replies friends. Ive decided ill order one after the holidays.

Ive been interested in centipedes this last summer. I could find 3 native/naturalised species near me, Geophilus flavus, Lithobius forficatus, and Scutigera coleoptrata. I didnt keep any of them for very long though. Wouldent mind finding another house centipede, they are pretty cool. I asked...

Yes im surprised too with how well its done with so little attention. The water is well oxygenated from the bubbler+there is a healthy layer of gunk, maybe the bacterial community is keeping the water quality acceptable. It just shed recently, thats why its on my mind. I just went and measured...

I caught a Nigronia serricornis larvae at a local waterfall ~2 years ago. I have it in a gallon ice cream container with an air bubbler and a rock to squeeze under. It doesnt do much, and I feed it no more than once a month or so. Insect feeders, fish food, blood worms, that kind of thing. I...