Still alive and mating attemps hardwickei

[peterbourbon]

omg turgut those pictures of the plings eating the maggots(?) are so adorable (haha wow im a weird chick.)

I think you rather meant Stevens pictures.
Indeed, maggots are great feeders for plings - they seem to love those soft things, rather than fast moving stuff like micro crickets.

Cheers
Turgut

 

[AlanMM]

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing.
One tried to escape in my keyboard unter the letter "M", so I had to remove the letters "M", "N", "K", "L" and "J" to catch it again.

Hehe, this is funny, i see you busy disassembling your keyboard, hehe

@ Steven: great job. Nice to here everything is going well. Curious about the color pattern of the second batch.

 

[Crysta]

whoops sorry steven and turgut haha the babies look all the same.... beautiful ;p

 

[Steven]

Thanx, and they are feeding on waxworms actually,
dunno if ya can call that "maggots" ?
I always cut them open a little bit so the "inner-juice" runs out,... plings love it to my experience.

really cute to see them struggle and fight over a piece of waxworm.:drool:

@Alan, i'm also very anxious about the second clutch, even more then the 1st one.
How's your hardwickei doing ? have you sexed it allready ?

 

[AlanMM]

Nope, didn't sexed it yet. Need to buy a soda club... Will look for it on "2dehands" shop soon. I'll let you know the result, certainly if it would be a male.
I also need to sex my others...

 

[JanPhilip]

Great update, thanks for the pics! Fingers crossed for the same luck with the second female.

How big are your mated females?

Cheers,
Jan Philip

 

[Steven]

How big are your mated females?

good question , i've forgot to measure these,
i still need to measure them for future records
so will do a.s.a.p and let ya know

in the main while,..... female #3 is also carrying eggs ,
but a very very small clutch, guess around 10 orso, i don't have high hopes on this female as she's been with several males but i've only witnessed 1 spermweb.
and she's not burried, just sitting on top of the surface and even moving around with the eggs :?:?:?

 

[peterbourbon]

Great stuff!
It's all so funny and ironic: Remember you were the first one who kept hardwickei in past. After so many years you were about to give up hope (fem eating male and things like that).

Now you find yourself with 3 clutches in a sudden!
To me this is simply perfect and the greatest thing that could happen to hardwickei.

Keep it up & congrats!!

Cheers
Turgut

 

[Steven]

Great stuff!
It's all so funny and ironic: Remember you were the first one who kept hardwickei in past. After so many years you were about to give up hope (fem eating male and things like that).

yeah i know i know, i almost gave up on ANY pede-breeding attemps,
lucky you were around in times of despair :worship:

now not getting tooo excited here wait and see how things end up with female #2, i won't hope on this #3 female, got a feeling she'll eat them in a few days. Guess i'll mate her again with a male soon,... so perhaps she can give birth a second time (good one) this year.

 

[diKe]

Thats so great Steven!!! Youre a hero

Hope everything will go well with these pedelings.

Regards

 

[Steven]

female #2 is almost done
plings coloring up,... and look at that, second tergite orange
female #3 to my surprise still curled around eggs .

 

[zonbonzovi]

and look at that, second tergite orange

Is there a lot of variation in the location of black striping on the hardwickei that you've raised?

 

[Steven]

Is there a lot of variation in the location of black striping on the hardwickei that you've raised?

in my first hatch all the pedelings looked like their mother,...
just today i've seperated the pedelings of the 2nd mother and i discovered that some do have a 2nd black tergite while others not, and i even have 2 pedelings who look like Draimans hardwickei,... half orange half black 2nd tergite :?

 

[Draiman]

Steven, surely you could have done a better paintjob than that?!

Jokes aside, congrats on the successful clutches. Mine is still holding onto her eggs on Day 4, so hopefully they're fertile.

 

[JC]

This thread...it's too much...:drool:

 

[Androctonus_bic]

So the domination of the female genes acording by colour, can be now under discusion.

Steven can you aport us, the number of pedes that you have with black second tergite, half black terguite and orange second tergite, please? (Maybe an aprox percentage of that, must be well).

What to say now... one more time... congratz for your aportation.

Cheers
Carles

 

[Steven]

Hey Carles, well just counted them

from this clutch 2nd tergite:
- 5% full black
- 10% half black/orange
- 85% full orange

Ow yeah, as some might know, i'm a bit experimenting with the first clutch,
just noticed the first canibalisme,... after 3weeks keeping some in groups of 3.
so don't keep them together as pling for to long

 

[AlanMM]

Strange thing, difference in color from the same clutch... :?
And more half colored then black ones...

 

[Galapoheros]

Hey great pics! The tergite thing was interesting to me, don't know why so much. Neat looking pedes.

 

[Greg Pelka]

Strange thing, difference in color from the same clutch... :?

Why s ostrange? Just normal variation inside specie. Like with eye colours in human.
Just curious when names of centipedes will be like this:
100% het Albino, 66% poss. het sharp albino or SHTCTB electric line