Signs of Dehydration?

[tyrel]

I've been experimenting with keeping arachnids and centipedes in large jars. There is no water dishes for now, just occasional misting. I know this can work on soil due to others experience, but as some of you know, I've been experimenting with keeping centipedes on gravel. I expect the centipedes will obtain their moisture in the same way as they would on soil, but I want to be ready just in case something goes wrong.

What are some signs that a centipede is beginning to become dehydrated?

 

[mindlessvw]

they die? really if they get dehdrated they die pretty quickly...

 

[tyrel]

Does anyone think dehydration is unlikely if I mist every few days?

 

[mindlessvw]

what kind of pede is it?

 

[tyrel]

what kind of pede is it?

I've got an Alipes sp. in a jar setup right now, and I'm planning to put my Ethmostigmus trigonopodus in one too, as soon as I get the kinks worked out.

 

[bistrobob85]

I keep my keepers in large jars too but i give them a cap in which i pour water. It should work for both alipes and ethmostigmus ssp. Give them lots of substrate so in the worst case, they'll burry where the substrate is more humid.

phil.

 

[cacoseraph]

both those seem to be drier end centipedes

i consider centipedes as obligate refugers... really, i treat them as obligate burrowers, but there is just enough evidence out there to make me think they can do ok with just a hide, sometimes.

i think you would lose considerably less centipedes and have much better breeding chances if you gave them a chance to burrow and dropped ventilation so that they will surface more