Centipedes

[Stormfire]

Will it be okay to feed my aro centipedes I caught in my backyard?

 

[ceeej31]

as long as they came from an area that wast pesticide and herbicide free, it would be fine

 

[scottgeeze]

I don't see why not. Although I wouldn't try to feed him one of those 15 inch monsters that you see on animal planet.

 

[Stormfire]

Okay, thanks, then. I found a bunch of them crawling all over this tree stump.

 

[brianjh]

thats my aros favorite but hard to find!

 

[Crustman]

Ok, I am not convinced that these are a great food for Aros. I know many want to feed their Asians these arthropods but what is so good about them? I suppose the red ones have carotenoids that may help color the fish. I imagine that the venom glands are taken care of by the stomach of the fish and the fish my occassionally get them in the wild when the forest floods or they walk into the water. I would like to see a stomach content study of Asians showing these as a dominant food. Is it just tradition to feed these because the fish gets the power of these venomous arthropods? Is it like men eating Fugu puffer or wanting Rhinocerous horn or gall bladders of bears. Help me understand.

 

[scottgeeze]

Well for one they are alive and fresh.

 

[antimony]

Why risk it? Centipedes have fangs and all of them have some kind of toxin...

 

[Liam]

try millipedes, non toxic, but they have a harder exoskeleton.