House centepede in my daughters beetle enclosure

[BobBarley]

They hunt at night and I know they eat more pest type prey than the crickets we feed most of our pets. If you click on the website I linked above, it has a list of prey items including: silverfish, carpet mites, and bed bugs. It seems as though their diets would be hard to provide in an enclosed captivity situation.

Actually, from what I find, they do fine in captivity with a diet of crickets. Going by that logic, we couldn't keep almost any of the predatory invertebrates that we do. Many of them do not eat an exclusively cricket/superoworm/mealworm/roach diet in the wild yet still fare well (many times better) in captivity.

 

[Praxibetelix]

This is true. My only argument would be that the centipede appears delicate and the cricket might harm it. Although the same risk applies to our other pets.

As long as it eats the offered prey it really doesn't matter