#blobs of fat can cause impaction unfortunately

[cyanocoraxx]

wait can centipedes eat cat food??

they can! it's just not ideal for a staple diet. it's more of a treat alongside gutloaded insects. if you give a pede cat food tho it's better to use brands without copper in them as copper appears to stunt their growth and clutch sizes. i use a brand that doesn't include copper because of this

centipedes thrive best on a varied diet of several types of prey, like they would in the wild - they don't have the luxury of picking and choosing out there so they take what they can get.

pedes fed on single types of prey alone don't reach their maximum size or lifespan. with this in mind pedes do seem to benefit from having vertebrate protein in their diet, which is why some keepers offer things like chicken, f/t pinkies and raw meats as well as cat food from time to time. some keepers have said that specific species grow way bigger when fed vertebrate meat as well as insects. fruits are also part of some species' diet in the wild so we try to incorporate those in as well as treats <3

some captive pedes show preferences for certain foods though. i guess in the luxury of knowing they'll be served food often they feel safe enough to hold out for something else. captive lazypedes (like my akaza) sometimes end up waiting for something quick and easy to eat instead of something live -_______- as in like they're obviously hungry but they won't act on it until something nicer comes along. spoiledpedes.

my pedes' favourite foods right now:

akaza (e. trigonopodus): cat food

sukuna (s. morsitans): chicken breast

shrine (s. morsitans): chicken breast

astraeus (s. dehaani): crickets and superworms

eos (s. dehaani): crickets

choso (s. subspinipes): crickets (almost exclusively)

major (s. morsitans): crickets