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Picked up my G. pulchripes - Photos!

VanessaS

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I'm guessing one is male and the other is female. They are just lovely! Their colours and markings are gorgeous. And they are both very sweet too.

I think that this is the male.

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And I am hoping that this is a female.

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VanessaS

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I googled some ventral photos of this species and compared them to these two. I really am hoping that she is female. They are the same size and looking completely different ventrally. That is a bulge on the suspected female.
The little boy did a little hair flicking being transferred, but the little girl immediately came out on her own to explore. It freaked me out a bit because they are fast as juveniles. She was moving so slowly and then darted onto my hand like lightening. It made my heart jump into my throat. I really need to get better at this. They slow down as they get older, right? Because she is an explorer, that one.
They are really, really gorgeous looking. I did the right thing to go and get them. The two of them were only $40 and everyone else is selling them for $50-$60 each and they're much smaller than these two and unsexed as well. You can judge their size by my hand in the last photo, he advertised them as being 3". I bought them from a university student who is now going to breed geckos instead. His loss, really.
And I met another centipede - the orange one from Vietnam. Beautiful, but scary for me. They're a nope for me.

The little girl (hopefully) exploring...

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