A terrible confession...

[JDeRosa]

I love pedes. I think they are even more beautiful than about 99.9999% of tarantula's. (Don't tell the people in the T forum that.)

I am making a shift into pedes away from T's since I have always been heavy into T's. I am curious about breeding. Are pedes easy to breed?
With T's you just give them enough room although i admit that most of the time the makes get eaten. Is it the same with pedes?

 

[zonbonzovi]

I, too, have a confession.

I spent the money that was supposed to go towards a replacement wedding band on a 'pede. Shhhh! Not so loud! I'm getting sized today to make up for it.

JDeRosa, have you had a chance to read through the stickies above? Lots of terrific info. IMO, supervising a mating isn't hard once you have a pair sexed...it's having the patience not to mess them while she takes care of the eggs and hoping to Gawd that she doesn't eat them...that's the hard part. That said, I still have yet to produce CBs, but I do have S. viridis & alternans on eggs right now. Toot, toot!

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

I think centipede breeding in the hobby is limited only because few really try. That being said there's been captive hatched of nearly all species with even limited captive history.

 

[zonbonzovi]

I think centipede breeding in the hobby is limited only because few really try.

Rather unfortunate as it's an addictive and fascinating process. But I also understand that it's a labor of love with nearly zero monetary reward. There seem to be a lot less non-native 'pedes coming in these days & I wonder if at some point even the commonly imported species will dry up because there is so little being done in captivity to reproduce them.