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Old 09-26-03, 02:48 PM   #1
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Sav and House centipedes?

I just got a sav and i noticed that crickets attract house centipedes in the cage. and is it ok for my sav to eat the centipedes?
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Old 09-26-03, 05:07 PM   #2
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Sav diet in the wild (i believe dont quote me) consists of mostly millipedes. Centipedes are a predatory insect, so theyre most likely killing your crickets. I would get some kind of sticky paper for outside of the savs enclosure to catch them. The sav will probably eat them and be fine, but like every other household bug they always carry a risk of carrying some kind of chemical poison from traps etc.
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Old 09-27-03, 06:01 PM   #3
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All centipedes are venomous, but the ones around here carry so little they couldn't do anything to your sav. But I don't know, they could carry some kind of parisite.
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Old 09-27-03, 07:30 PM   #4
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I fully agree with Vh.B on this....

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