Giant Centipede Handling

[Galapoheros]

Haha! That's pretty funny. Nice handling pics. I don't recommend it (had to say that for political reasons). I handle my pedes too. Of course, not the Sub. I've got a theory about why you should wash your hands before you pick one up. I've handled some that panic when they get on my hand. I think they pick up the salts and oils on your hand and kind of freak out. I think that their senses tell them we 'might' be something to eat but also that we are too big. So they go into "danger" mode. I had one that thought it caught me and was about to have a big meal. So, now, if I pick one up, I make sure it is fed and that I washed my hands. I still get that "bungee jump" feeling when I do it. Man! Mortal Sin looks great. Biggest Poly I've ever seen! Stocky too. Hope the spiracle thing is working out.

 

[kerensky]

I have uploaded a video of my S. mutilans feeding on a praying mantis while clinging on the my hand.

Apple Quicktime is required to view this video.

http://dkowl.multiply.com/video/item/1

edit - and for those of you who do not have Apple Quicktime, I've uploaded the video on YouTube.com too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuCHBiFidM


After I stopped recording, however, it decided to drop it's meal and started to nib me instead. Gave me quite a shock but luckily it didn't puncture through my skin. I shook it a bit and it loosened it's grip, crawled a little up my thumb and gave me another nib.

That's when I decided it's time to send it back into it's tank before it gets out of hand. I had minor swellings and the area around the nibs had a little bit of tissue scarring, but other than that, no other major symptoms.

 

[cacoseraph]

woohoo! for the past three months it has been to hot in my room to free handle any of my centipedes (E. trigonopodus "bluering legs" get mean at 85-90*F and S. morsitans "Egyptian emeralds" get mean at ~95-100*F)

but last night i was trying to take pics of an emerald's terminating legs and it managed to run onto my hand... so i free handled it for about 5 minutes and it never even came close to biting me. my room was about 85*F

i'm so happy... that was a long 3 months when it was too hot to play with my friends!

 

[Galapoheros]

Haha, I know what you mean! I let my house fry except my room this summer. I got bit twice by S. h. castaeiceps in the heat. They were the small ones though. I can tell when a big ones are about to bite. But the little ones sneak it in. I don't pick up that giant one any more. She thinks I'm a giant pinkie. In a way I am. I just can't get a tan .

 

[cacoseraph]

it's only like ~80*F in my room now so i thought i could free handle some S. morsitans, Tanzanian Tigers

i guess you could call the results mixed:
things going fine
[YOUTUBE]LqOP8BIqDIE[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num1_01a_hires.mov 01:18 (from a 20MB file)


[YOUTUBE]ZlQ4kZGJeyQ[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num1_01c_lowres.wmv 01:21 (from a 1MB file)


a different centipede and a problem
[YOUTUBE]jEJEEJolOhE[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num2_01_esc_tinyres.wmv 01:17 (from a 1.5MB file)

 

[Okitasoshi]

Wow, awesome pede handling, I'd personally not do it, but I still commend you on the bravery. Btw, cut your Pinky nail off, it looks retarded.;P

 

[P. Novak]

it's only like ~80*F in my room now so i thought i could free handle some S. morsitans, Tanzanian Tigers

i guess you could call the results mixed:
things going fine
[YOUTUBE]LqOP8BIqDIE[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num1_01a_hires.mov 01:18 (from a 20MB file)


[YOUTUBE]ZlQ4kZGJeyQ[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num1_01c_lowres.wmv 01:21 (from a 1MB file)


a different centipede and a problem
[YOUTUBE]jEJEEJolOhE[/YOUTUBE]
TanzanianTiger_S_morsitans_Num2_01_esc_tinyres.wmv 01:17 (from a 1.5MB file)

DId you ever find the pede???!!! NIcE VIDs!

 

[tyrel]

Wow, awesome pede handling, I'd personally not do it, but I still commend you on the bravery. Btw, cut your Pinky nail off, it looks retarded.;P

I remember him saying he uses that as a tool. I forget what for though!:}

 

[CedrikG]

Dude I agree YOU HAVE TO cut this nail! :?

 

[cacoseraph]

Wow, awesome pede handling, I'd personally not do it, but I still commend you on the bravery. Btw, cut your Pinky nail off, it looks retarded.;P

I remember him saying he uses that as a tool. I forget what for though!:}

Dude I agree YOU HAVE TO cut this nail! :?

ahahahhaa!!!

i'll try to make a vid or pic when my nails are *long*

believe me, the nails are quite appropriate given the proper context. and no, the proper context has *nothing* to do with my nose!

 

[swatc1h]

Coke Cola?

George Lopez=Save me some.

 

[C_Strike]

HEHE, your all mad!!
lol, i got a 7" s subspinepes, and soon to be a S spp 'tiger leg'
i NEVER intend to hold either...cept when its dead maybe hehe
though im full of admoration for you guys doin it! Weddon!!

 

[cacoseraph]

DId you ever find the pede???!!! NIcE VIDs!

thanks
yup. it was under the rack in the video. i thought about shooting vid of me catching it but i wanted to make sure i *did* catch it

 

[Twilight]

Here's Some Of My Videos

Before I put anything I would like to say sorry to Scorp guy, I guess I bashed on you too much and now you're pissed off at me. I won't get at you no more, unless you piss me off. Here's some of my videos too, hope you guys enjoy. Its a S. Subspinipes pedeling about 3-4 inches that I posted up before.

[YOUTUBE]iuHA1pHQ_Mg[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]-bqzP4bFdFk[/YOUTUBE]

And here's a clip of my centipede attacking a cricket

[YOUTUBE]5jVOULhRq9o[/YOUTUBE]

Hope you guys enjoy

BTW...Andrew...I always thought your hands were like...a savage person's hand lol. I'm like "I hope my hand doesn't look like that after handling centipedes and bugs so much"...cool video too, I'd never catch a Subspinipes the way you're catching that one.

 

[Galapoheros]

Son of a Diddly! We all have our place don't we.....what a nutty thread for my fellow nuts. ROCK ON!

 

[cacoseraph]

welp... i think i have my first case of sensitization to venom

in me centiquest for the perfect hand pet i at first goaded (temps low enough to make them docile) and then later high-temped Ethmostigmus into biting me around 50 times.

all but the last two times there was absolutely NO effect from the venom. the second to last time about a day after i was bitten my knuckles swelled up in that certain special way cuz of the delay i was not sure if it was an infection or venom effect... i think i know now

this vid was shot about 30 (to 60 at the outside edge) minutes after i was bitten. it was actually kind of hard to capture the swelling, but i think if you kind of know what to look for you can see it, heh

low resultion for dialuppers (~3.4MB WMV uploaded)
[YOUTUBE]IKJe6hjPxtA[/YOUTUBE]

high res for broadbanders (~20MB MOV file uploaded)
[youtube]pu2csScDoVE[/youtube]

p.s. the music in the back ground is some death metal type band recording in my living room downstairs

 

[Twilight]

Why do you post it up twice?

 

[Scorp guy]

low resultion for dialuppers (~3.4MB WMV uploaded)


high res for broadbanders (~20MB MOV file uploaded)

For different connection speeds.

 

[cacoseraph]

Why do you post it up twice?

one of my good buddies on here has dial up only, and when i used to have only dialup i hated not being able to see what other ppl saw (or waiting ALL night to see something)

low resultion for dialuppers (~3.4MB WMV uploaded)


high res for broadbanders (~20MB MOV file uploaded)

For different connection speeds.

you are correct, sir



and the reason i don't do it all the time... my converter sucks and sometimes i am in a rush, and sometimes the low resolution versions can't show the detail that i want... and sometimes i am just lazy, heh

 

[Twilight]

Oh...lol yeah I noticed the text that says that. Its just that they both look similar in quality and you still can't really see much significiant differences from the better one, couldn't notice the puncture wound...I dunno haha...well I'm tired I'm gonna go chill now.