[MarknMiami]

OUCH!!!....Man you got nerves of STEEL to be able to take those pics while its biting you!...Hahaha!...Glad it wasn't too bad of an experince and it appears it did not inject much if any venom or I am sure there would have been some type of symptoms present besides soreness...Glad your ok after that :)

[Vincent]

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GCH#3 egyptian emerald
I picked up four of these, this is the largest  The smaller ones have slightly more dramatic coloration  No scientific names

This one is easy because I have them myself :D It's a scolopendra cingulata


About the alipes. It's really easy. Put them together and if they keep each other compagny and stay on the same place you can leave them but if they intantly run away as soon as they touch seperate them.

[cacoseraph]

Vincent, on Sep 15 2005, 06:19 PM, said:

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GCH#3 egyptian emerald
I picked up four of these, this is the largest? The smaller ones have slightly more dramatic coloration? No scientific names

This one is easy because I have them myself :D It's a scolopendra cingulata


About the alipes. It's really easy. Put them together and if they keep each other compagny and stay on the same place you can leave them but if they intantly run away as soon as they touch seperate them.

awesome!

ok, next question. i have a large "jar" or "jug" that i was thinking of keeping my future (hopefully) colony in.

the jar is at least 30cm in diameter and 45cm tall. i was thiking of filling it about 15cm of packed-in coconut coir(80%)/sphagnum moss(20%) and then adding some fake plants and other goodies for the Alipes to climb on. Do you think this will be large enough?

It will be set up so they can burrow if they like (with some buried structures for them to burrow under/around) and also to satisfy any arboreal tendencies they might have

[cacoseraph]

and that is SWEET about cingulata!

i really wanted to get some of these... i've seen how other ppl (er, probably you, Vincent) have collections from many different countries :)

[Vincent]

Yes that's big enough. Let me know how it works out :)

[cacoseraph]

Vincent, on Sep 15 2005, 06:29 PM, said:

Yes that's big enough. Let me know how it works out :)

i should take an annoyingly huge amount of pics, if all goes well :)

do you know of any other "communal" centipedes?

i am going to try and get my colony of red stone centipedes (Lithobius sp.) running again and a seperate colony of black ones (just saw them for the first time at my brother's new house:) )

i didn't know it (or keep forgetting) but some lithobiomorphae can live 4-6 YEARS!

[haroldo359]

:ph34r:

[Vincent]

cacoseraph, on Sep 15 2005, 09:28 PM, said:

and that is SWEET about cingulata!

i really wanted to get some of these... i've seen how other ppl (er, probably you, Vincent) have collections from many different countries :)

Yes I have cingulata's from

Egypt
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingulataegypt/cingulata03.jpg

Greece
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingulatagreece/greece03.jpg

Spain
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingulataspain/spain03.jpg

Tanzania
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingulatatanzania/tanzania06.jpg

Turkey 'greenlegged'
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingturkeygreen/turkije01.jpg

Turkey 'orangelegged'
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingturkeyorange/orange03.jpg

Turkey 'yellowlegged
http://www.scolopendromorpha.com/gallery/albums/cingturkeyyellow/yellow01.jpg

[cacoseraph]

Vincent, on Sep 17 2005, 10:21 AM, said:

cacoseraph, on Sep 15 2005, 09:28 PM, said:

and that is SWEET about cingulata!

i really wanted to get some of these... i've seen how other ppl (er, probably you, Vincent) have collections from many different countries :)

Yes I have cingulata's from

Egypt


Greece


Spain


Tanzania


Turkey 'greenlegged'

Turkey 'orangelegged'


Turkey 'yellowlegged

Greece is spooky looking!

i love it

er, i know this is sort of a "dark" subject, but have you ever tried cross-breeding different locality cingulata?

i know crosses are generally not as attractive as their parents, but it would be quite interesting to see which are fertile and which are sterile, etc.

awesome awesome pics!

[cacoseraph]

this is a buddy of mine...

he tells me that the centpede is not actually a foot long... but i choose to ingnore that and continue to live in my blissful own little world :)

King of Heros
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/pals/yikes/King_of_Heros.jpg

[cacoseraph]

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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/pals/yikes/PlayingWithFire.jpg
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[LongDucDong]

:( NNNOOOOOO!!! I know, you warned me... :( :(

Thats sacreligious content right there ya know... :o j/k

Cool pic! Too bad for the exilicauda (am I right?)... :(

This post has been edited by LongDucDong: 20 September 2005 - 02:17 PM

[St7]

concerning your Egyptian emerald centipede:


could you post a picture of the ventral-side of its terminal leggs ?
with only the info showable on these pictures you can't be sure it beeing a Sc.cingulata. ;)

[cacoseraph]

LongDucDong, on Sep 20 2005, 09:19 PM, said:

:( NNNOOOOOO!!! I know, you warned me... :( :(

Thats sacreligious content right there ya know... :o j/k

Cool pic! Too bad for the exilicauda (am I right?)... :(

pest grade C. vittatus from my buddy's front yard :)

don't feel too bad, he sent me a mesic female C. vittatus and a xeric (it's frickin YELLOW!) C. vittatus male, so hopefully i'll be producing interesting looking morph-mixed babies sooner or later :)

[cacoseraph]

St7, on Sep 22 2005, 12:51 PM, said:

concerning your Egyptian emerald centipede:


could you post a picture of the ventral-side of its terminal leggs ?
with only the info showable on these pictures you can't be sure it beeing a Sc.cingulata. ;)

i will certainly try :)

i don't believe i have any ventral pics right now, so i will try to take some the next time i have access to a cam :)

[Ameiva]

Cacoseraph you a bad influence. ;)
Because of you to see letting your centipeds walk on you body ...... I eventually made similar with a subspinipes :dance: . Now I do not stop any more. :love3:

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[cacoseraph]

Ameiva, on Sep 24 2005, 04:56 PM, said:

Cacoseraph you a bad influence. ;)
Because of you to see letting your centipeds walk on you body ...... I eventually made similar with a subspinipes :dance: . Now I do not stop any more. :love3:

ah crap.... subspinipes... you have raised the bar...

mainly, ah crap though... that is intense!

now i need to hold one of those... this should be interesting

awesome pics!

i just have to ask though... you do know that if that thing tags you it is likely to be quite unbearable, right?

i mean, to date the species i have held would likely be only very painful (or not painful at all... :rolleyes: ) if they bite... but a subspinipes is supposed to be painful like breaking a bone or getting shot :)

i just want to make sure, i'd hate for you to get suprised the bad way!

awesome awesome awesome!

[Ameiva]

Thanks

This sort bites rather hard, but not so painful as a breaking bone. It is closer to a finger in the door of a car. ;)
But the pain must be variable according to the size and the subspecies of subpinipes. :unsure:
The one bite me was a little smaller than that of the photo, I never was bitten by a very big.
As I was bitten only by a one sort, I cannot really make of comparing.

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[cacoseraph]

Ameiva, on Sep 26 2005, 02:01 PM, said:

Thanks

This sort bites rather hard, but not so painful as a breaking bone. It is closer to a finger in the door of a car. ;)
But the pain must be variable according to the size and the subspecies of subpinipes. :unsure:
The one bite me was a little smaller than that of the photo, I never was bitten by a very big.
As I was bitten only by a one sort, I cannot really make of comparing.

very cool!

i am not suprised that bites are variable like that.

i just wanted to make sure you knew it *could* be nasty :)

what is the name of that subspinipes? i think i've seen it before and have always thought it was very nice looking

i'm sure after a while i'll be able to make a very interesting comparison chart :)