Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros

[7am35]

substrate looks dry

[DJAlMighty247]

@7am35 Yes it's that for a reason. I had a mite problem. A lot of them! I kept the soil dry for many months and offered water from a bottle cap.

[TheICTShamus1]

It's from Texas, not China.

[devilspale]

SCOLOPENDRA SUBSPINIPES MUTILANS aka CHINESE REDHEAD CENTIPEDE...mostly found on a garden which lives on a wet potting soil...not that deadly,but centipedes are venomous though.

[Fenhawk11]

@devilspale this is scolopendra heros

[SquareBallStudios]

Are these deadly?

[James42785]

I live in Georgia and I just caught one of these little bastards crawling up my back. Anybody want it?

[NyNeNe176]

ok im planing on doing a 10 gallon tank with 2 dividers to divide 3 species a tarantula (mexican fire legs) a scorpion (emperor scorpion) and im plainin on buying the centipede (giant red headed desert centipede ....would all them 3 lil creatures be fine in their wen its divided into 3?.....if not wat size should the tank be ?

[alexcoaym]

@NyNeNe176 ten is too small. maybe for one mex fire leg, but not for 3 and not for a emp and an S. hero. my S. hero is in a tenner herself. a good rule of thumb for me is to have the tank the centipedes in with dimensions what are the length or longer.i would use 3 tens or a long 20 gal( not the standard one with extra height to for an aquarium. the kinds you see at specialty pet stores that seperate their arthropods in the way your trying to achieve.

[rrebers]

Its Scolopendra heros (Girard) and their from Texas artard! p.s. its a desert species

[DerWahreDriftwood]

You are a very allmighty noob.

Sit down f-

I had never seen an american centipede with a turkish or arabic name.

[DefCon6]

is not from the desert,is from jungle original

[SinOfLove]

Not these 'little' guys.

Though granted, they seem to like forest better than full desert.

[silentopinion]

What doesn't love the forest more than the desert?

[SinOfLove]

That's true!

I think we'd love it even more if we had such an environmental moisture-reliant respiratory system...

[silentopinion]

I live in Las Vegas. I love to leave here and go somewhere where there is a forest, like western Washington, Oregon, or Northern California.

[SinOfLove]

Nice :D

I live in Jersey. Our forests are intercut with highways and cities and more highways.

[silentopinion]

The eastern part of the country is more green, and red and orange and yellow. It's much nicer than the west, in most places. I still have to have the southwest, it's where I am from.