Hello, i am new here, but i have always had a fascination with centipede. In Singapore, we have a ready acess to this animals via feeders for the aquarium trade. When i was younger i kept one for a year, it moulted and grew its fangs back and bit me. I was 9 or 10 at that time so i retaliated by feeding it to my fish. Now that was long ago, but my impression was that it was more than 30cm long. Now i know from this board that it is a rare size for an asian centipede most likely a scolopendra subspinipes mutilans? The aquarium shops still sells the pedes today, but they are much smaller, i wanted to rekindle my interest by getting one, but am unsure about feeding defanged ones (I fed my old pede exclusively with soft bodied insects like termites which were abundant)
I am on a project to keep a centipede, so yesterday, i caught an unknown species of centipede, black in colour, about 8cm long. It is a common centipede and not too big, as it grows it will have a greenish colouration. If i suceed in keeping the black centipede i fully intend to buy the mutilans. Any specific care i need to keep a defanged centipede? Its hard to find termites anymore, but i was thinking small frogs would be great:evil: until it has moulted.
I am on a project to keep a centipede, so yesterday, i caught an unknown species of centipede, black in colour, about 8cm long. It is a common centipede and not too big, as it grows it will have a greenish colouration. If i suceed in keeping the black centipede i fully intend to buy the mutilans. Any specific care i need to keep a defanged centipede? Its hard to find termites anymore, but i was thinking small frogs would be great:evil: until it has moulted.
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