Scolopendra breeding

[CHLee]

Getting there.

 

[CHLee]

Day 35

 

[Desert scorps]

congrats!!

 

[CHLee]

almost there
Plings have all molted, will color up in 3/4 days and leave mom.

 

[S8tan]

holy smokes those are awesome!
still waiting on them in EU
i even hardly came across dehaani tbh...btw...is there any telltale signs in dehaani if male or female? or should i just try and put them together?
i dont wanna gas or drown them

 

[CHLee]

Colouring up
Will leave mom in a couple more days

 

[CHLee]

one last one before they leave mom

 

[CHLee]

And off they go.

 

[CHLee]

Two more females decided to join the party.

 

[S8tan]

beautifull indeed

 

[CHLee]

Last clutch for 2023

Best result from the panda line pairing


new updates next season

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

You're doing a spectacular job. What's your survival rate and how many do you keep? Or are the adults the same ones year after year? Ever have the mother eat the babies?

 

[CHLee]

You're doing a spectacular job. What's your survival rate and how many do you keep? Or are the adults the same ones year after year? Ever have the mother eat the babies?

Survival is almost 100%, at most 1-2 deaths a clutch, I keep at least 10 per clutch. At F4 currently, this years clutches are all from F3 offspring,

no double clutches this year, these are offspring from the previous generation, the first clutch this year was the baby With the mask pattern on its head a year back

, only once were a mom at the eggs, but not after they’ve morphed into nymphs.

 

[CHLee]

And 2024s season begins

 

[l4nsky]

What was the results of the panda x panda overall? I see a best-of specimen pictured above, but I'd like to know the average in comparison to a normal hardwickei.

 

[CHLee]

What was the results of the panda x panda overall? I see a best-of specimen pictured above, but I'd like to know the average in comparison to a normal hardwickei.

 

[xchondrox]

Congratulations on the success youve had with that project! Ive really found hardwicki to be an interesting and attractive sp. even though they give me the creeps when they move around fast.

 

[Mjc52810]

I recently went to the Pittsburgh reptile expo where I added two pedes to my collection. As I looked around asking if the centipedes that were being sold were CB many vendors stated that it’s near impossible to breed centipedes. Is there any reason for that? I am pretty new to the centipede department of invert keeping and thought they would be interesting to breed.
Also congrats on the successful breeding process, the pictures are amazing and make me even more intrigued to breed them.

 

[Desert scorps]

I recently went to the Pittsburgh reptile expo where I added two pedes to my collection. As I looked around asking if the centipedes that were being sold were CB many vendors stated that it’s near impossible to breed centipedes. Is there any reason for that? I am pretty new to the centipede department of invert keeping and thought they would be interesting to breed.
Also congrats on the successful breeding process, the pictures are amazing and make me even more intrigued to breed them.

Well for starters, sexing them is quite tedious, you have to knock them out (via CO2 or drowning them), and push their reproductive organs out to figure out if they are male or female, which comes with a lot of risks that could be fatal to the centipede. then once you figure that out, pairing them has to go well which is arguably the easiest part, then you have to wait for them to lay a clutch which could take anywhere from a month to several years, and once they do, you cannot shine any lights on them or have any vibration near them whatsoever, this includes footsteps near the enclosure, taking the lid to the enclosure off, etc & they take roughly 2 months to hatch so they have to be left completely alone for that entire time. it’s just insanely tedious and not worth many people’s time. hopefully that changes soon though, i’d love to see them being bred in captivity consistently

 

[CHLee]

Halfway there