Lurchenstien
Arachnosquire
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- Apr 23, 2013
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When the four new adult S. dehaani arrived just over a month ago, I sexed three of them, I didn't sex one as it's injured, but I had a feeling it was a male. When I poked the terminal legs to get it to move out of the way earlier, it started acting as I've read that males do when they're mating, so I decided to put it in a spare tank with a female that was sexed a while ago. Once they were in together, they showed interest in each other, ended up tangled up a bit, and then the female started following the injured centipede. The went between a brick and the side of the tank, then the injured centipede started spinning a web, confirming my suspicions that it was a male. This went on for 45 minutes or so, before he deposited the sperm packet, then the female walked over it and picked it up. There's some pictures of the web below, with what remains of the sperm packet. This looks to have been a successful mating attempt, both centipedes are back in their enclosures. The male is just over 6 inches, the female 9 inches.







