Centipede setups

[Steven]

Steven, what kind of lid lock are you using on those containers on the left?

These are a kind of "Curver" boxes (31 Liter) where the lid falls inside the container and with 2 locks,... hope this pictures makes it clear ?
(I've been tipped by these boxes by some Dutch Poisonous snake-keepers,... 99% escape-proof )

 

[danread]

Wow. Steven, i am seriously jealous! I would love to have a setup like that. At them moment i am stil having to cram everything into my bedroom, and i am seriously running out of space.

Is the whole room yours to use just for your animals? When i next move house and actually buy my own, one of the most important things I'll be looking for is an extra room for my animals!

Cheers,

 

[Steven]

Is the whole room yours to use just for your animals?

I wish ,... No, just 1/2 of the room is planned for stacking pedes,...
i've got a girlfriend and 2 daughters who have claimed the other 1/2 part of the room,...

i'm allready happy they gave me this part of the house


i'll post pictures when it's all in place
(right now i'm setting up the Gigantea-containers )

 

[Melmoth]

Hey Steven,
Looks like Centipede City at your house


George

 

[fatbloke]

Steven
thats going to be 1 nice room for you pedes when its finished

john

 

[Tony]

My gigantea tank...No decorations, I just got around to CNC'ing the lid..The pede cant even stand up near the top at this point. In this pic it has burrowed but I put it at about 7.5" or so.. I see you all include the terminal legs in your measurments? I didnt...next time it's out I shall try a reference pic
Tony

 

[danread]

Hi Tony,

that looks to be about as safe as can be i reckon! There is no way its getting out of there, even with the lid off. I really need to sort out my gigantea tanks, all of them are far too shallow, there pede can be up and out in a flash if it wanted to be, The thing is, the deeper the tank, the less of them i can have, so i'm willing to take a degree of risk.

Cheers,

 

[Tony]

Thanks Dan
You can see a sliver of the container it was in originally on the right...About 9" dia and 6" deep or so... Definitley exciting come feeding time. When I put it in the 20 gal. , I did notice it could stand up for approximately 3/4" it's body length...The lid is just the icing on the cake

Right now the only other pede is a 'polymorpha' I think, got it gree at the ATS last year...
Tony

 

[Vincent]

some pictures of our room

Pedes

Scorpions

 

[Steven]

some shots of my new Gigantea-tanks:

 

[danread]

Very nice Steven. They look like they will be happy in there, hopefully happy enough to lay eggs this spring......

 

[Randolph XX()]

u mean it's gravid? no wonder she look so fat

 

[Steven]

no wonder she look so fat

Hey, Watch it buddy !!!

never call my ladies fat !

 

[Randolph XX()]

fat is the synonoun of beautiful for female in this occasion

 

[Steven]

there, hopefully happy enough to lay eggs this spring......

i've got 1 female from John (Fatbloke) (pict#2),... that lady isn't eating much lately but is becoming very very beautiful (Fat ? ,randolph20)

quite sure she's gravid

 

[Bob]

Hey, Watch it buddy !!!

never call my ladies fat !



Not fat....big boned.....hey wait a minute, she doesn't have any bones....I guess she IS fat..............

Bob

 

[moricollins]

Here are pictures of my enclosure for my S. subspinipes, I will be doing smoe redecorating sometime soon (going to get some moss for additional hiding places).

I made the end pieces to make it "escape proof" by bending pieces of tin into the correct shape and then attached it via a nut and bolt to the container (which has a locking mechanism in the middle itself)

Here is my small (6' x 5' x 5') spider room:

Mori

 

[fatbloke]

Steven

nice looking setups for the gigantea's
i thought the pede in the second picture looked very Familiar hope you have more luck with it laying eggs then me
if i ever see a pede laying eggs again i will leave the camera well alone

john