Scolopendra galapagoensis

[Xenomorph]

Hi,

I recently got my dream species! I have time I'll start in with the attitude scolopendromorpha was looking for!

Did you the details - photos not included before. The massive body the spines and the behavior of this type is indescribable!

And my biggest thanks go to the dream I have met Christian and Martin!

best regard
Sandro

 

[ftorres]

Congrats!!!

I hope one day to have my dream come true. SO if you come across another one like that, please help another fellow hobbiest make his dream come true.

How much did you spend on that beauty???????


:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

 

[zonbonzovi]

What a loathsome, repulsive creature(only because I don't have one)! I don't like the way it's taunting me with its tarsal spines:}

 

[Galapoheros]

YEEEEAAAH! This is half of where I came up with my username, this is one I finally want to get. galapagoensis, gigantea, hardwickie, heros, and tiger-legs, that would fill my desire with pedes basically. That looks like a healthy young one to me. Ooooh, I was just looking, it's a male isn't it(?)

 

[beetleman]

:clap:BEAUTIFUL............YEAH I WANT 1 ASWELL FOR MY GROWING PEDE COLLECTION,HAVE ALOT...BUT NOT THAT 1.

 

[dannyboypede]

:drool:
Ooooooooooooooooooooo...

--Dan

 

[Xenomorph]

Thanks for the kind words,

I also think that this is a male,unfortunately I could for the smaller no good photos of the make reproductive system.

The smaller is 17-18cm (1 picture from above)
The larger 20cm (2 image from the top)

best regards
Sandro

 

[zonbonzovi]

Just a thought, Sandro:

I couldn't tell from your photo, but don't males have the 2nd genital sternite above the spinning organ?

Good luck with them!

 

[micheldied]

Oh my gawd.... :drool:
Am jealous.

 

[Xenomorph]

feeding pics...

 

[Steven]

very nice specie and pix!!!! congratz

 

[Androctonus_bic]

Definitivily my favourity sp. like I've said before... Just give you the congratulation for share the pictures with us.

Vielen dank für ihre Bilden!

Grüsse
Carles

 

[ftorres]

Hello All,
Sandro, I finally got my dream come true too, 7 months after I posted here. I got myself a Sc galapagoensis. Awesome pede!!!!

 

[KyuZo]

ftorres, if you got your dream pede, then why are you trying to sell or trade it off?

 

[ftorres]

Hello Jason,
I am trading it in hopes of finding a Sc gigantea, wich is my ultimate pede. I miss the one I had a few years ago.

look here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncD2k1NiDfo

 

[KyuZo]

yeah man, i've seen a video of it when caco was handling it. i think that i might have seen it when you had it in a 10 gal tank at the L.A. bug fair.

 

[Galapoheros]

That gigantea is a big pede! I had a heros as big or bigger, 9.5, they can get almost as big but not as often as big as far as I can tell. The big S. Amer pedes are cool but priced mostly because they are hard to get. Imo, one of the nicest looking big pedes is right here in the US. My personal guess is that there are genetics floating around for esp. big heros pedes that gets expressed now and then, but that's a far reach from me, just a hunch. The galapagoensis is cool looking though.

 

[beetleman]

teh....there is no freakin way i would ever hold mine! that 1 was so mellow mine is psyco,mines a tad bigger,man i give them credit for handling it, i just even touch her container...bam!! she's wanting to attack,but that's the way i like em

 

[ftorres]

Hello,
My gigantea died at 11 inches, It was after a molt. It was funny because months later I got a phone call about Animal Planet offering 1000 dollars for a large gigantea. I would have sell it at that price.

Do you have an extra gigantea by any chance?????

 

[Galapoheros]

They have money lol, could you have leased it to them for $999?