Some of my collection....

[Dillon]

I wish I knew more than that.

Arizona..lol

I really don't know though.

[Dillon]

Feeding a pede, than others joined in..Took some pics.

Started with the Polymorpha who hasn't been up for a long time. Lookin' good.




Then the S. H. Castaneiceps..

[Bell]

It's the Halloween pede!

You take the best pics of pedes. They're always so clear. Haha, they always look so big, too... but when you get, like, a bottle cap in the shot it puts them in perspective.

So, curious, why is that first pede on a sand mixture? (it looks like a sand mixture, at least) I haven't seen that in your pics before. Is it a desert species? I've always had 'pedes pegged as a high humidity bug but I guess it makes sense not all can be tropical if they can come from, like, AZ or CA.

[Dillon]

Yeah the "Halloween" pede is on a ~60/40 peat and cocofiber/sand mix, as well as the polymorpha. You could probably keep them on straight peat/coco fiber just as long as it is drier and they can burrow so pack it down good.

Just the Polymorpha has dug a lot of his bottom layers of sand up, while the S. H. kept his coco fibre/peat layer on top so its less visible. I'm up to 4 different Polymorphas now and they are almost all bulldozers.

They are both considered more desert pedes. But, had a texas banded heros that hovered the water dish and begged for water, just like I have a Subspinipes variation that hates when I mist and never comes out unless its bone dry to drink from a water dish only..Depends sometimes on individual preferences IMO but sticking to the basics is a must. Most of the Heros morphs and Polymorpha color morphs are all considered to be "desert" type pedes.

[Dillon]

Recently messed with my big vietnam S. S. dehanni's tank...Live plants, moss,isopods, the works now. He loves that moss.

[Bell]

It's like he's in the wild again. I bet he loves it in there with all the moisture needed to keep the plants alive.

[Dillon]

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[Bell]

Is that the Scolopendra Subspinipes "Barbados"

[Dillon]

Surely is.

[Dillon]

This one is NEVER out so I was stoked when I saw her.

Scolopendra Mirabilis - I think - African Black head tiger