Chocolate Milk
Arachnopeon
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- May 11, 2018
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Greetings,
Sad day today, my Scolopendra subspinipes died today.
The only reason I picked up this centipede (not being a centipede lover) was because the pet store had him in a dinky little 4 inch long tank, so the centipede was in a "C" shape all the time. It was enough motive to get him.
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I don't know how old he was, here is a picture
Forgive the bluriness, it's actually a screenshot from a video I took of him not too long ago.
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He was much more happy with that substrate, a moss type blend, and if you watch the video he seems happy in my opinion of course; maybe he wasn't. I fed him twice a week approx. Either worms, pinhead crickets, or mealworms & their beetle form. However I had to clean his tank and I put him in a tmp tank and replaced it with a more soil type brand.
This is when I think things went down hill ; he didn't move like he did in that video anymore, he just sat still moving time to time, and of course I wanted it to be better for him so I assumed it was the soil. I ordered 8 bricks of coconut fiber like substrate, and I had a much much bigger tank I could put him into. So I did so, and filled it with that substrate, and this was all yesterday 2018-05-10, and the next day (today) he was dead. His color was flushed, and it most certainty broke my heart. I won't order a new one because I wasn't interested in them, I simply wanted to give this one a better life, and I honestly hope that I was able to do that until I made this final blunder.
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I don't know how they look in different ages, I don't think he was too old, maybe it was stress, maybe it was the heat, for as it was 85(f) when I checked, which was much hotter then he was used to since the old tank only reached 70. Another thing to note is I have never seen him molt, I have only had him for a year but I think I should have seen it once.
It could have also been the substrate.
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Feeling terrible for ending the life of something I just wanted to help I am wanting to know what it was that I did.
Sad day today, my Scolopendra subspinipes died today.
The only reason I picked up this centipede (not being a centipede lover) was because the pet store had him in a dinky little 4 inch long tank, so the centipede was in a "C" shape all the time. It was enough motive to get him.
-----
I don't know how old he was, here is a picture
Forgive the bluriness, it's actually a screenshot from a video I took of him not too long ago.
He was much more happy with that substrate, a moss type blend, and if you watch the video he seems happy in my opinion of course; maybe he wasn't. I fed him twice a week approx. Either worms, pinhead crickets, or mealworms & their beetle form. However I had to clean his tank and I put him in a tmp tank and replaced it with a more soil type brand.
This is when I think things went down hill ; he didn't move like he did in that video anymore, he just sat still moving time to time, and of course I wanted it to be better for him so I assumed it was the soil. I ordered 8 bricks of coconut fiber like substrate, and I had a much much bigger tank I could put him into. So I did so, and filled it with that substrate, and this was all yesterday 2018-05-10, and the next day (today) he was dead. His color was flushed, and it most certainty broke my heart. I won't order a new one because I wasn't interested in them, I simply wanted to give this one a better life, and I honestly hope that I was able to do that until I made this final blunder.
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I don't know how they look in different ages, I don't think he was too old, maybe it was stress, maybe it was the heat, for as it was 85(f) when I checked, which was much hotter then he was used to since the old tank only reached 70. Another thing to note is I have never seen him molt, I have only had him for a year but I think I should have seen it once.
It could have also been the substrate.
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Feeling terrible for ending the life of something I just wanted to help I am wanting to know what it was that I did.