Indo blacktip eggs

ophiophagus · Oct 19, 2009

I was checking on my pedes today and found this girl wrapped around a clutch of eggs. Unfortunately she is CH and has never seen a male. I am going to purchase a few adults from a friend in hopes of getting a male to pair her with in the near future. Any way here's the pic. Enjoy!

Elytra and Antenna · Oct 19, 2009

Nice animal. Somebody has adults of that species for sale that are captive hatched and reared to maturity? Any idea how long it took them to reach maturity and the survival rate?

ophiophagus · Oct 19, 2009

This one is captive hatched about a year ago. I only bought one of these so I'm not sure of the survival rate. But I've raised a number of species from babies and would say I've had about an 80% survival rate. The adults I'm going to purchase are wc. Thanks

Taryllton · Oct 19, 2009

I raised three of these from pedelings (actually they were apparently hatched from stock originating in the Phillippines, but so far as I can tell it's the exact same animal or one quite similar). All three survived into adulthood (which for this particular variety seemed to be on the smaller end, 6"-7") and proved quite hardy, whereas with similar attention I lost a "Malaysian Cherry Red" pedeling haha.

SAn · Oct 20, 2009

thats the most common form of s.subspinipes . Not a black-tip.

Comatose · Oct 20, 2009

I'm not positive, but I swear I remember reading about a 'virgin birth' where a captive hatched centipede laid fertile eggs without breeding. May want to treat this like a real breeding opportunity!

peterbourbon · Oct 20, 2009

Hi,

even in literature Scolopendromorpha are not considered as parthenogenetic, but (as far as I remember) some Geophilomorpha.

Anyway since not everything is explored in the world I wouldn't bet on the above stated fact. Do you know when you heard of it and where this information came from?

Regards
Turgut

Comatose · Oct 20, 2009

Honestly I do not, and it would have been a while ago...just thought it might be worth mentioning.

EDIT: it was here! http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/archive/index.php/t-47372.html

The link he uses is no longer up, but I recall reading it. Vanatu is such a cool ssp. too.

EDIT #2: It looks like it was just eggs actually; still, I'm sure I saw a diagram showing captive born centipedes producing babies without mating...maybe steven can chime in.

Indo blacktip eggs

ophiophagus

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Elytra and Antenna

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Taryllton

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SAn

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Comatose

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peterbourbon

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