Scolopendra Hardwickei Molt

This is the smallest 1 I have.It's the only 1 with a broken pattern.The first
black band behind the head stops mind body.She stopped eating onlly 4 days
ago.When I checked her around 5 PM.She had a frosty cloudy sheen to her
appearance.I checked her at 8:00 PM and she was sprawled out.I checked
her at 9:00 PM and she was just finishing.I was expecting her to be much
lighter in color then she was.I thought her orange bands would be almost
white after her molt.But she is just a few shades lighter then before her molt.
I can't beleave how fast he or she took to molt.She started to eat her molt
at 10:45 and it took more than an hour to finish it.


PS:she was a little less than 17 mm before her molt.


Satellite Rob

:clap: :drool:...........that's all i have to say.

Hay Pete,
I never showed you this one.But I told you about this 1 with the incomplete
black band behind the head.So this is number 5 that you seen.After she
hardens up i'll her by to show you.If you want.

good looking stuff there rob!

:worship: :worship: :worship: Wish these would become available......Great looking pedes!

Hi ric,
Thanks alot.It a great pede.

Hay ranchulas,
I didn"t give up.I still think I have 3 large gravid females.Hopefully thay will be
in the hobby soon.

Nice photos, Rob! :clap:

Satellite Rob said:

Hay ranchulas,
I didn"t give up.I still think I have 3 large gravid females.Hopefully thay will be
in the hobby soon.

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you definitely have to keep us post on those...

Satellite Rob said:

Hay ranchulas,
I didn"t give up.I still think I have 3 large gravid females.Hopefully thay will be
in the hobby soon.

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Well, I guess go ahead and put me down for all the babies then.....LOL

Oh man, only half a band ....I think I'd put it out of it's misery. Just kiddin, cool pic, good luck with the rest.

Thanks Rick it's a very interesting pede.It's a slow moving pede compared to
most pedes.It stays visible 50% of the time.It likes to spend alot of time
climbing on drift wood and cork bark.The seem to be at home just sitting on
a branch or piece of bark.I would bet in the wild thay do the same.All of my
S.H. will take food from my tweezer.If thay don't wont to eat.Thay slowing
move away.Thay can be aggressive.But you really got to piss them off.I can
even get most of them to eat frozen pinkies.I just put the frozen pinkie in warm
water to warm them up.Then grab them with tweezers and tap the pede with
the pinky.Then thay grab it and eat it.Thay haven't refused any type of food
yet.I've been varying there diet as much as possible.I been feeding them
roaches,crickets,grubs,locust,silkworms and pinkies.Thay eat anything I give
them.Thay are a very different and easy to keep pede.

Hay ranchulas and KyuZo,
I'll keep you posted.I hope to have some good news soon.

Hi Galapoheros,
I fixed her.I took a black sharpie marker and completed her band.She was
getting a inferiority complex.So I had to either fix her or shoot her.You know
how women are with make up.Now she a happy well adjusted female pede.
Galapoheros it's alway a pleasure to get a post from you.

PS:Ah oh.I think it's a female.What if it turns out to be a male.Now I might
have a bunch of new problems.I might have to go out and buy him a purse.
Maybe 1 of these days i'll win one of these.

Satellite Rob

Please breed and sell me one.

Hey Rob- that's a quick molt! Regarding the climbing, I had a couple of links in the archives showing that very behavior so I figured I had to share. I think there is even some vague locality info. These guys are also being used in cancer research- some initial testing on venom shows destruction/slowing of cancer spreading cells. Unfortunately, no link saved. If anybody comes across it, I would love to read again. Cheers...

http://www.wide-aware.com/gallery/v/wildlife/insects/centipede/DSC01202.JPG.html

http://m.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2985979147&

I'm going to give them a little more time before I start tryng to breed them.I
still think I have 3 on the verge of laying eggs.So we will give them a little
more time.

yea, take your time and be patient, don't want to risk losing any.

btw, i was thinking... you should make a container with a screen in the middle (the grid should be smaller than the centipedes so that they can't go thru, but big enough for them to stick their antennae over to feel the pede on the other side).
IF their reaction is calm and friendly, then you can introduce them to each other
if not, then simply don't put them together, duh!

altho, don't just introduce them once, but maybe at least 2-3 times, because sometime, even tho they are female and male, they may not be ready to mate yet so that might be why they may not be interested.

Sc heros is a diff pede but I'll say what I've done when putting those together, I guess it could help. I've had a few tangle up, not many though. It seems like when that happens people just sit back and go "oh no, not that!" But I've separated them every time with no deaths. I've used a chopstick and tongs. I keep their heads from getting close to the other(avoiding bites) with the chopstick and at the same time, grab a pede with the tongs while working a pede off the other with the chopstick, using two tongs would prob be better, I just haven't done it that way. I've seen bad bites and deep stabs with a lot of bleeding but the few all recovered just fine. But, I know it's a diff species, a bunch of unknowns. Also, personally, ...just me, if I had 10 or more of those, I wouldn't worry too much about losing one or two even though they were expensive because the pay off could be 20, 30, or even a lot more! Easy for me to say, haha, so, I understand. The grid thing sounds like a good, careful start to me. But who knows, maybe what you're doing might be best, just patience and waiting to see if those fat ones blow some egg bubbles. I only know some stuff about heros pedes and egg laying has been pretty random. I used to think the end of May was like clockwork but I was wrong. And I wonder how seasonal those are when it comes to egg laying, I wonder if they would get thrown off, seasonally because of where they are from(?) Maybe it doesn't matter as long as conditions are OK. Guess all you can do is just mess around with it and see what happens.

Rob,
how many do you have?