Fast Feisty and pretty as can be

[Bigboy]

Aww, look she's poseing.
Scolopendra suspinips

 

[423]

Scolpendra gigantea, about 10"

 

[CedrikG]

a real beauty, congratz nice pic too

 

[Bigboy]

Nice!

Gratz on the set up and the bug, oh someone must show me the proper way to post a pic so I can show you the pride of my collection. It's gonna be hard to out do that Gigantea though, hats off to you.

 

[edesign]

free image hosting here:

http://www.imageshack.us/

upload your picture to their site...they will give you the text to copy and paste directly in to your post. Also, I think there's a sticky in the T forum or one of them that explains how to post pictures...might try the search engine too

 

[Bigboy]

thanks

Thanks bud, time for me to start showin off my bugs

 

[edesign]

you're welcome...gimme pics!!! my gf just now told me "NO!" to getting a 'pede lol...thankfully she doesn't pay rent here so I can do what I want

 

[Steven]

Who has the best looking Pede? Pics please folks anyone can say they look good but who can prove it???

I'll give it a shot with this one

Gigantea's are real good looking and big,...
but they aren't shiny metallic, big and bleu ;P ;P ;P

 

[Androctonus_bic]

WOW steven!!!!!!
You have nice pets!!!

 

[423]

Nice one Steven, the lighting makes it look kinda spooky too. What species is it?

 

[Steven]

Nice one Steven, the lighting makes it look kinda spooky too. What species is it?

thanx y'all

99% it's an
Ethmostigmus trigonopodus

 

[danread]

Hi Steven,

any news on the breeding front with the E. trigonopodus? I seem to remember you saying you were going to introduce them to each other, how did that go?

 

[Steven]

Hi Steven,

any news on the breeding front with the E. trigonopodus? I seem to remember you saying you were going to introduce them to each other, how did that go?

hey Dan,... yep, correct, got a female with eggs,... but she ate them
(guess it was due to my movement,... hope this year it's gonna be a succes )

 

[danread]

hey Dan,... yep, correct, got a female with eggs,... but she ate them
(guess it was due to my movement,... hope this year it's gonna be a succes )

Sorry to hear that Steven. If there is one pede we need more of in the hobby, it's definitely this one. How have you found them to be in terms of habit? i.e. are they predominantly burrowers or do you get to see them on the surface often?

It's a real shame that one of the things holding back the pede hobby is the problem of mothers eating their eggs. If it was a case of every batch of eggs that were laid resulted in baby pedes, there would be a lot more captive reared pedes on the market. Maybe it is worth experimenting with next years batches of Scolopendra sp "Stripe legs" as there isn't a short supply of them. Using nappy liner to hold the eggs might help as they add antibacterial substances to them (this method worked well in the lab i work in for rearing Carabid beetle eggs as we used to have big problems with the eggs going moldy). If we could develop a reliable method for rearing the eggs sans mother, it would be a great step forward.

Cheers,

 

[Wade]

There was a guy on Petbugs a few years ago who was sucessfully hatiching pede eggs in an artificial incubator. He even had pictures of decloping pedelings! I'm not sure how they did beyond the early stages though.

Wade

 

[danread]

There was a guy on Petbugs a few years ago who was sucessfully hatiching pede eggs in an artificial incubator. He even had pictures of decloping pedelings! I'm not sure how they did beyond the early stages though.

Thanks Wade, I'll try and hunt that out!

 

[Wade]

His name was Tim something. Del Rosio maybe?

Wade

 

[423]

Scolopendra subspinipes from Thailand, fat, shiny and happy

 

[Steven]

Hey 423

could ya check the spiracle count on that one ? i mean is it
1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0 or 1-0-1-0-1-0-1-1 ? 2 segments following eachother with spiracles ? and can ya tell if the head-plate is underneath the 1st tergite or above ? (looking at the picture,... it looks like the headplate is under the 1st tergite instead above)

Why all these questions ?

i'm not so sure it's a subspinipes

Would love to see some more pictures of that one (terminal leggs,... head+antenna etc...)
you can send them trough PM if ya don't wanna fill this topic

 

[423]

Hey 423

could ya check the spiracle count on that one ? i mean is it
1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0 or 1-0-1-0-1-0-1-1 ? 2 segments following eachother with spiracles ? and can ya tell if the head-plate is underneath the 1st tergite or above ? (looking at the picture,... it looks like the headplate is under the 1st tergite instead above)

Why all these questions ?

i'm not so sure it's a subspinipes

Would love to see some more pictures of that one (terminal leggs,... head+antenna etc...)
you can send them trough PM if ya don't wanna fill this topic

I'll see what I can do. I'm not really that sure myself actually, but I bought it as S. subspinipes so that's what it's labeled as for the moment. Can't really get any good close-ups with my camera so I'll try and borrow a better one tomorrow and take some pics.
But not today, I'm heading for the pub right now so if I'm alive tomorrow I'll try and send pics of everthing to you. I would love to know for sure too.

btw, what is a spiracle , all these technical words keep messing my poor head up