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This was exciting yesterday and was my first siting of a Scolopendra heros castaneiceps in Bulverde Tx, in the Hill
It’s probably about 6in or so! I have set it up in a temporary TCS deep shoe box, until I can get a longer and taller tank for it. This is my first centipede and wow they are just stunning!!!
I set it up with some root pieces stacked over each other for some hiding places, a water dish, about 2 1/2in of peat, I’d give it more to burrow but it gives me absolutely no room to work with a 6in centipede, don’t need an escape lol. The substrate on the side with the watedish is slightly moist and the side with the hide is completely dry, for what I was reading a moisture gradient can be needed? If it’s not just say so. When I get the actual enclosure I will get it on a maybe more natural substrate to the area if I can.
I was thinking of getting maybe an exoterra 12x12x12 and replace the mesh with drilled acrylic and I was thinking those doors may be good cause you can lock them, which would make me feel good if it was locking and only I had the key so someone couldn’t open it and it escape at work. Would this enclosure work? Let me know what you guys think!
It’s probably about 6in or so! I have set it up in a temporary TCS deep shoe box, until I can get a longer and taller tank for it. This is my first centipede and wow they are just stunning!!!
I set it up with some root pieces stacked over each other for some hiding places, a water dish, about 2 1/2in of peat, I’d give it more to burrow but it gives me absolutely no room to work with a 6in centipede, don’t need an escape lol. The substrate on the side with the watedish is slightly moist and the side with the hide is completely dry, for what I was reading a moisture gradient can be needed? If it’s not just say so. When I get the actual enclosure I will get it on a maybe more natural substrate to the area if I can.
I was thinking of getting maybe an exoterra 12x12x12 and replace the mesh with drilled acrylic and I was thinking those doors may be good cause you can lock them, which would make me feel good if it was locking and only I had the key so someone couldn’t open it and it escape at work. Would this enclosure work? Let me know what you guys think!