Some people have tried it and it is outlined in the Giant Centipedes book. However, the problem with centipede breeding in general is people are nearly always starting with wild-caught adult females and at least some, if not all, species are proven capable of retaining sperm more than 18 months. It's impossible to say any 'breeding' method has worked with a wild-caught female. Same problem is encountered with trying to prove or disprove parthenogenesis.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you, but I think our first step should be trying to figure out how to propogate these in the hobby.
. But I believed a couple of people that told me some crazy stories. The late owner of the Snakefarm and his wife told my they had one in their store that was 16 inches long. I have to see to believe. They started arguing over what color it was so, that backed up their story a little more as far as I was concerned. He said it was an S. h. castaneiceps. She said it wasn't and they started getting after it, arguing back and forth. She said it was a "sandy" color. He said it was black. But the really big one I have now is not black, it's brown. I guess that could be described as being a "sandy" color. It kind of fits. They said their nephew brought it in but they couldn't remember where he had gotten it. Seems like they thought he found it in NM . The couple looked like they were in their 70s. I've told this story before. I asked how they knew it was 16 inches. He brought me over to what they kept it in and said that it touched each end of the terr it was in, and the terr was 16 inches long. I know that's hard to swallow. Anyway, I was speculating WAY out there and wondering if there is a "gigantism" kind of gene floating around in the heros gene pool that is usually not dominant. I finally got a really big one that has a body length of 9.5 inches. I plan on comparing two pics that I think will look pretty strange. One will be of a small female with babies (anybody remember the pic of the one in the spoon? That was a long time ago) and the other one of this monster in the same scenery. That'd be pretty weird looking. Take some work but I have the time. A lot of pics to dig through. Also at the park at Amistad res around Del Rio, their pamphlet says the local Scolopendra heros heros usually gets around 6 inches but can get up to 12 inches long. If the Parks dept published that, seems pretty credible. But, I still haven't seen any 12 inch heros with my own eyes. But the 9.5 incher I have gets me closer to being a believer. The fast growers may stop growing at 5 inches as far as I know. I'm just flying by the seat of my pants with this stuff !! MAN that was a long one!
. That's pretty big. I don't know, I just play around with them and see how they behave wherever I put them. There are a lot of facts on this site and a lot of opinions. So I experiment around and see how things go. I've seen bigger round plastic containers. I keep the monster in one of those bigger ones. She has tunnels all over the place and I can see her most of the time. I rarely see her trying to climb up towards the top. She's usually under the sub in a "U" shape hole next to the plastic like one of those sea worms in the sand I used to see in a book when I was a kid. I found those containers for less than $2.00 at the Dollar Store or some other store like it. I bought them all! They probably thought I was crazy, and I might be, hehehe.