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| Pulk |
geophilomorph on paper towel?I found a geophilomorph under a rock but on top of the soil. I tried to recreate the experience with a very small rock on some peat moss in a cup, and it just burrowed. think it can survive without substrate to burrow in? I don't like not seeing it. :faroah:edit: this is not another spider or arachnid 
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| DavidRS |
Is it a bird? a plane? | ||||||||||
| ftorres |
its SUperman or the underdog maybe
I have tried substrate but with lots of pieces of wood and then substrate on top. they use to move along and rest beetwen the spaces created by the wood. Or you can only use rotten pieces of wood and moss, just make sure you keep the humidity high and the temp low. regards ftorres. |
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| DavidRS |
I guess I had to google this one. It's a myriopod, right? Then you posted in the wrong thread. | ||||||||||
| WBurke17 |
Is this what you found?
http://www.rowanpix.com/inverts/pages/my-geophilo.htm |
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| Pulk |
no, it's a myriapod
is that like bark chips or thin layers of wood stacked on top of each other? |
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| DavidRS |
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| ftorres |
is that like bark chips or thin layers of wood stacked on top of each other?[/quote]
You can try both, they will work. good luck. francisco |
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| Pulk |
That's ok, I just ran out of money.
Cool, thanks! |
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| cacoseraph |
i keep these in little vials with little to no vent. feed prekilled.
the golden snail pedes have adapted to cap like champs. not so sure about the thicker red species yet, though my guys actually stay near the surface until i move their vials =P they also partially surface to feed i have a thin golden and a thick red together right now, with only one prekill roach (which i saw goldy eating from already). should be interesting to see how they do together. i always get a giggle picturing two geo's fighting... trying to get all that body out of the way of the other guy's pointy parts. heh. |
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| cacoseraph |
p.s. i would consider the geo in that pick to be a "thick" species. thin species are about the width of a pencil lead, even when they are ~4" long! also, these seem to dehydrate even faster/worse than a similar length scolopendromorpha, so be sure to crank down vent or keep them fairly humid! |
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| Pulk |
this one is about 2.5" and pretty thin (gold/yellow). | ||||||||||
| cacoseraph |
extremely low vent and drop a prekilled ~2wk old cricket (or equiv size) in there about once a month. seems to do the trick. i have a ~4" golden that i have had for about 9 months now. i kept losing specimens (dying i mean) until i reduced vent to almost nothing. i suppose higher vent and more scrupulous watering would work too =P |
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| Pulk |
there are more pics of it on my flickr but here's the best closeup
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| Steven |
Kept a few of those...though, they dont seem to live long at least in my hands that is. Longest living one ..I kept it in a emptied fruitfly container with deep substrate. (over 3/4 full of coconut fiber w/a chunk of bark on top)
This one collected from my yard (i come across a few every year without looking too hard) 
This one was collected in the "wastelands"... 
Andrew...hows that red "fatty" one doing? I hope I can get over there and take some pics ...sometime somewhat soon. 
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| Pulk |
nice photos! | ||||||||||
| Steven |
We should start a family/specie "in progress" thread for these squirmy little fiends.
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| cacoseraph |
ah, good thinking i will do one sometime this week if no one else wants to |
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| Habibi18 |
Whoa! That's really thin! Any info? I wanna blog about these. I also have a question. In the summer and late spring when I go bug hunting I often find these thin white centipedes. What are they?
Same thing with the millies. Although I always thought that in the case with the millies these were probably either freshly moulted or albino. Straighten this out for me please? What am I seeing? They're cute none the less. Wanted to keep some but you know my mom. 
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| cacoseraph |
i would say it is generally true that white bugs just molted... but there are some bugs that are normally white in color
as for centipedes, you can count their legs (usually you need to take a picture, they usually don't sit still for it) to tell what order they belong to. in the USA there are four orders Geophilomorpha are long and thin and are the only order with more than 23 legpairs. one species has up to 191 legpairs (almost FOUR HUNDRED LEGS!). Geo - "earth, soil", philo - "love", morpha - "shape". These are eaters of the dead or predate small inverts and snails. Lithobiomorpha have 15 legpairs and 15 tergites (top armor plates). They typically live under rocks, as their name indicates. Litho - "stone", bio - "life", morpha - "shape". These will eat small inverts. Scolopendromorpha have 21 or 23 legpairs and has the most massive species. Typically these are the pet centipedes. The largest can get over 12" in body length and way a couple few ounces. Scutigeromorpha have 15 legpairs, but only 7 tergites. They have the longest legs of any order and are the quickest moving. Scutigero - "shield", morpha - "shape". This is the only order of centipedes with compound eyes. |
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| Habibi18 |
This is good to know! Thanks.
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| Pulk |
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| Habibi18 |
Cuuuuuuuuuuuute! And useful! Thankies! 
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