Will B
New member
Hi,
I was just collecting live food for my fire sallies from the compost pile, usually I collect a variety of different worms (when bigger I chop them up), milipedes, spiders, small snails of many kinds and a huge variety of tiny creatures which I don't always recognize, but assume that they will either eat them or ignore them. FYI I don't feed the sallies directly, I dump the creatures in front of each sally's hiding spot, they will right away eat some, but most will linger arround, providing the sallies hunting opportunities.
Today I found what seems to be a centiped, although quite different from any i've ever seen.
Its totally yellow, about 12-15cms long, yet extremelly thin and looking less armoured then the ones I usually find. When googling it I found the species "scolopendra cingulata" which seems however to differ from the one I've seen: the size and base colour are similar, but with none of the other features.
is it ok to feed Fire Salamanders with centipeds? Of any european species?
How big can/should they be in proportion to the sally? This centiped was almost as big as the sallies so I released it, but it seemed frail and so I had the impression that it would be fair game for the sallies... but being poisonous and predatory, I backed up!
Would appreciate some feedback on this...thanks
W
I was just collecting live food for my fire sallies from the compost pile, usually I collect a variety of different worms (when bigger I chop them up), milipedes, spiders, small snails of many kinds and a huge variety of tiny creatures which I don't always recognize, but assume that they will either eat them or ignore them. FYI I don't feed the sallies directly, I dump the creatures in front of each sally's hiding spot, they will right away eat some, but most will linger arround, providing the sallies hunting opportunities.
Today I found what seems to be a centiped, although quite different from any i've ever seen.
Its totally yellow, about 12-15cms long, yet extremelly thin and looking less armoured then the ones I usually find. When googling it I found the species "scolopendra cingulata" which seems however to differ from the one I've seen: the size and base colour are similar, but with none of the other features.
is it ok to feed Fire Salamanders with centipeds? Of any european species?
How big can/should they be in proportion to the sally? This centiped was almost as big as the sallies so I released it, but it seemed frail and so I had the impression that it would be fair game for the sallies... but being poisonous and predatory, I backed up!
Would appreciate some feedback on this...thanks
W