So I just got an 8" Cherry Red, 6" S. Mutidens (Chinese Beauty) and a 5" Red Headed Hero's and a 1.5" Scolopendra (Barbados) to add to my collection the other day.
That Cherry red has incredible biting power. It was trying to bite through the plastic shoebox I had it in while I was preparing it's enclosure. But that's not the story.
I had placed the Barbados pede in a small deli cup with some substrate. I was tired from a long days work and so I took a couple hours nap not realizing the deli cup had a hole in it. When I awoke, the pede was gone. I spent an hour searching high and low, moving furniture and lifting capet for the missing pede. I even looked in the vacuum cleaner bag. All to no avail.
So I gave up hope thinking that the pede found some crevice in the kitchen or crawled out my door. I figured that it would die off in a week so there was no worry of an 8" monster attackign me at night while I am alseep.
I went into the other room and sat down at my computer. Within a few minutes I felt something crawling on my leg. Lo and behold it was my missing pede. I was relieved to have found it.
That Cherry red has incredible biting power. It was trying to bite through the plastic shoebox I had it in while I was preparing it's enclosure. But that's not the story.
I had placed the Barbados pede in a small deli cup with some substrate. I was tired from a long days work and so I took a couple hours nap not realizing the deli cup had a hole in it. When I awoke, the pede was gone. I spent an hour searching high and low, moving furniture and lifting capet for the missing pede. I even looked in the vacuum cleaner bag. All to no avail.
So I gave up hope thinking that the pede found some crevice in the kitchen or crawled out my door. I figured that it would die off in a week so there was no worry of an 8" monster attackign me at night while I am alseep.
I went into the other room and sat down at my computer. Within a few minutes I felt something crawling on my leg. Lo and behold it was my missing pede. I was relieved to have found it.