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So I think I have this guy eating centipedes. However, centipedes are not the easiest thing to come by. I have found a few but am worried about being able to always find them. Any ideas on how to keep and breed centipedes?
Thanks
Travis

I suggest you register for the bug forums lol....ask them they should know.

I think you should just get as many as you can, and keep them all together, and hope you have them when you need them. I'm sure with little effort you could breed them, but the babies would take a few months to be at a size where the snake could eat them.

I'd gladly take it off your hands.

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I bet they are millipedes. Centipedes have a venom. Oh, and micheal breeding centipedes is not a very easy thing. People can't realy even sex them unless they have had babies before. I would highly suggest you to find another prey itme if they are in fact pedes of anykind. Millipedes have a toxix excretion too.
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Justin

well it would be great to get it eating crickets as they are much easier to get(15 for a $)
Right now I have put alot of crickets in there but I do not know if the snake is eating them or the pedes. I could try just the crickets for a couple weeks to see.
Travis

I once kept a colony of termites, and found that the centipedes and milipedes were breeding like crazy. All you have to do is get big plastic or metal tub, and place a layer soil down and put a rotting log in it. keep it moist and you'll have all the centipedes you want.

I know nothing about those snakes but have you considered roaches? I ordered a culture of small roaches for my geckos just to try breeding them.
They went insane ate them at twice the speed,gusto as crickets. However they are expensive compared to crickets and mine bred so slow.

They do like centipedes, but keeping centipedes together will leave you with one large centipede. Ground snakes also eat small crickets, about the size of the snake's head. Break the jumping legs off the crickets and also strip off the antennae, as the crickets will run if they detect the snake, and without their antennae, they won't be able to do that.

If you don't prep the crix, the snake may not be able to catch them.

Would it eat dead centipedes? Try one see what happens. If so you could catch a few freeze them till needed.

Very good suggestions, thanks everyone. I am going to hit up the bug forums. When you say that keeping many centipedes together will make one big one, does that mean they will cannibalize each other. That sounds pretty cool, I might just do that.
Travis