Thanks you all so much!!
When i get a chance later i'll post up the sequence of pics for the centipede!
I'm only 11 away from 300! I'd love to get there tonight!
It may seem like i'm heaps in front but the competition runs until Dec 1st so all it will take is one person with 1000 people on a friends list and it would bump me off! Thanks again!
Not on facebook but best of luck mate. I just bought an underwater camera and a friend is building a holder and adjustable long handle so I can get footage under big bombies and inside caves I cant access.
Not an fb fan but I might join if the comp gets tight. Will keep an eye on it! (via the missus's fb, she already voted for ya!)
Thanks man! Don't worry about digning up, thats too much trouble for you haha. I don't mind asking people when its just a simple click!
Keen to see some of the footage you're getting!
As for the moult sequence heres a few more pics...
Before the moult... (the main indicator I saw that a moult was coming up was the "plastic" appearance of the terminal legs at the back. They aren't usually that colour.
Starting to stretch apart the plates to create the opening just behind the head.
The plates have just come apart exposing the "neck".
Now the head emerges so that it can drag the rest off in one piece.
From here it just stretches and pulls itself carefully out of its old skin. They are REALLY really fragile here. They are just like jelly until it hardens up. You can see even the fangs are white instead of the usual black and hard.
Can see the fangs (well, they're actually called venom claws... such a badass name
) are **** here and are starting to harden up even in that short time as the tips of them are starting to go darker.
Almost out of his old skin. its amazing that its in a little neat bundle like that ready for them to eat it. you can stretch it out like a snake skin but i though i'd let him eat it
I did keep the head with the venom claws though. I've since lost that along with my piece of gila monster skin shed i got when i was playing with them at Melb Zoo. Those lizards are awesome!
Freshly moulted centipede! Such beautiful colours. I wish it stayed that way.
Hopefully thats enough to make a few more people vote for me
haha.