Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: Bluering legs (Ethmostigmus sp.) babies!
i finally got babies from one of my females! now i am really psyched about introducing my known females to some of my other bluerings
08-12-2007
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cool, i just found a blue ring on eggs too. i believe this specimen laid eggs for me about a year ago and ate them... but i think centipedes retain sperm between molts and can produce fertile eggs years after mating
the eggs were probably laid in the period August 1 to August 7, 2007
08-28-2007
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i checked my bluering a couple days ago and she still has the eggs
08-31-2007
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this definitely seems like a tougher species to get eggs from. not so much the setup is tough... the couple few people who have gotten eggs didn't have anything too special as far as setup... it just seems like the females are much more inclined to eat eggs from this sp than say, Scolopendra polymorpha
09-10-2007
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my dang eggs don't seem to be developing... or if they are, they are WAY slower than S. polymorpha in changing from basic egg shape to the lozenge shape
eggs still eggshaped
10-10-2007
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i think that this lady with eggs is NOT the one that laid them last year... so now i have two egged fems
WOOHOO! i have at least five last level nymphs.... despite a car ride to a petstore (i am moving and stored my bugs for a couple weeks at an LPS) and a ride to my new apartment!
i also have a bunch of full S. polymorpha plings... but these are some of the best mom's ever so i basically took it for granted that i would get plings when i saw she had eggs. especially since she made a brooding chamber
eggs have morphed into centipede nymphs
10-26-2007
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nymphs are still around. they are quite active now. i am hoping they willmolt soon
if i can find my dang cup lids i am going to steal the nymphs and raise them seperate before their first instar molt. has worked int he past with polymorpha i experimented with. the last level polymorphas actually ate, iirc
centipede nymphs are active and motile
11-9-2007
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i believe they molted about 4-6 days ago
the mom and her five kids have enjoyed two meals now. the babies look quite similar to yellowleg babies i had last year. they don't really look like bluerings at all, yet. cute though
i am going to seperate them today after work, i think (along with ~30 polymorpha babies)
centipede nymphs molted into first instar. are completely mobile and leave mother. have eaten twice and are noticeably fatter now
so... it looks like 3 months from eggs to first instar. maybe that isn't that much longer than S. polymorpha after all. hmm.
as far as the setup that produced these eggs:
i keep mom in one of my standard wafer roll cookie containers (chocolate flavored, i think. i should have used vanilla... blue lids hehehe). it is a round container, about 4" diameter and ~6" tall. it was about 2/3 full of once hard packed coconut coir. centipede did a surface brood though. there *might* have been more than five eggs to start, but it would have been like 8 or 9 max. i ended up with 5 first instars
once i noticed mom on the surface with eggs i moved her to a dark supercontainer (i keep most of my bugs in large ~50G rubber totes, for earthquake and organizational purposes). she actually spent some time at a petstore in storage. i moved while she was on the eggs! she eventually ended up at my "new" apartment where i made a shaded/sheltered area on one of my bug racks for her.
i checked on her once every 3 days or so. checks would involved removing her from the tote or sheltered area and usually shining a little LED flashlight on her. when she would become aggitated i would put her back.
i don't believe i fed the centipede the entire time she was with eggs or nymphs. i fed her two adult lobster roaches (N. cinerea) when the nymphs molted to first instar. both mom and the 1i's are noticeably fatter now
this female is a WC LTC that i did not breed myself. i have had her in my possession for well over a year now. i do not know if she has shed in my care or not (it doesn't really matter, scolopendromorpha can retain sperm between molts).
i pretty heavily season all my animals. my window is almost always open and i have a fan circulating air from outside almost constantly. in the winter my room gets down to 50-60*F and in the summer my room gets up to 90-100*F. during the winter i hardly feed at all. i increase frequency of watering the substrate, also. in the summer i feed more and try to balance a decreased watersupply against the health of my animals.
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