scolependra subspinipes mutilans caresheet ( my first ever carsheet)

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Scolependra Mutilans ~ Chinese red head
Size: 6”-8”
Diet: Babies will eat pin head crickets. But adult’s will eat anything from crickets, cockroaches to pinkie mice (basically anything they can overpower or is smaller than themselves) most species are cannibalistic but the mutilans is one of very few species which can be housed communally.
Temperature: 75F-85F
Humidity: 75%-85%
Housing: these centipedes can be housed together in groups but cannibalism may occur if so plenty of food must be available. In my opinion these should be kept in tall RUB’s (really use full boxes) and not glass tank’s because centipede’s are escape artist’s and can actually climb up the sealant on the side and chew their way out through plastic and can chew through 3mm of it ! Also make sure the ventilation is high up so the animal cannot reach that either because it can chew through the pre drilled ventilation. Make sure they have 3-4” of substrate, they like to burrow. Be care full that you don’t put so much substrate that it can climb up to the lid. Although this may sound very dramatic its true and these animals can damage humans if they bite (different people have different reactions to it).
Substrate: they can be kept on most substrates such as co-co fibre mixed with sand, wood shavings, sand, chipping or vermiculite.
Breeding: centipedes are amazingly hard to sex so the good thing about this species it that you can house them together so if you put a couple in there you are bound to have a male and female. Females will lay up to 20 eggs and after a incubation period of up to 60 days the young will hatch, at this point they don’t look much like centipedes but leave them with their mother for 2 weeks and then they are ready to be separated into groups of individual tubs.
Experience: centipedes are not a species for beginners who haven’t kept invertebrates before and although they are fairly cheap and easy to care for care should be taken when keeping these.

this is my first ever care sheet and i hope you like it,i couldnt find many for this species so deicided to write my own

hope you like
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