Matttoadman Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Back in September I collected 3 of these centipedes. Today I have found pedelings. I assume these would still be considered captive reared? I’m guessing I need to get a bunch of the springtails out of my millipede tank. There are some freshly hatched P. scaber in there now. Of course they are there cause the adults ignore the adult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Nice, congrats on getting offspring! From what I've read in Orin's Centipede book, dog food and various fruits work great for rearing these and other stone centipedes, and may work better for your pedelings than trying to find really tiny prey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 I removed some tiny temperate springtails from the millipedes. Plus I put some flake fish food for the P. scaber offspring. I finally saw the adults eating last night. I put in some tiny dubia and one was munching away. The isopod adult was trying feed on it too. The centipede finally ran off with it like a dog and a bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 7 hours ago, Hisserdude said: Nice, congrats on getting offspring! From what I've read in Orin's Centipede book, dog food and various fruits work great for rearing these and other stone centipedes, and may work better for your pedelings than trying to find really tiny prey. Fruits? Huh. I used to keep a stone centipede that would eat small plant seedlings that sprouted in its container. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 15 hours ago, Salmonsaladsandwich said: Fruits? Huh. I used to keep a stone centipede that would eat small plant seedlings that sprouted in its container. Yup, according to Orin, they do much better when fruits and such are available in their diet than when fed just live prey, apparently they are a lot more omnivorous than most other centipedes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.C. Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Congrats, I tried about three years ago and never got anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 I threw three into a tiny container. It’s coco fiber, cypress mulch(tell them it’s a problem), some leaf pieces, a piece of wood and a rock. I mist it weekly. And throw in tiny dubia once a week or so. I plan to upgrade the habitat soon since I see the babies. However I don’t want to crush them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovebugfarm Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Congrats on the baby's. I found that young centipedes are good scavengers. I actually would freeze pinhead crickets and lateralis to feed them. Now my r longipes are in a communal bin with a massive p scaber colony and I havnt fed them for a year now got lots of little baby's growing up in there now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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