Generally, the base area is 50 cm x 40 cm, with a height of about 30-40 cm. Too small of a tank won't hold many centipedes, and too large of a tank will be hard to move. A layer of crushed gravel should be placed at the bottom of the tank, covered by a 5-15 cm layer of breeding soil. Tiles should be stacked on the soil surface, with the tile height being 10-15 cm below the tank rim. The tank opening should be covered with an iron mesh. When breeding in small quantities, tanks can be used, but they have poor ventilation, tend to accumulate water at the bottom, and centipedes are prone to green stiff disease. Therefore, breeding density should be controlled during breeding. Additionally, the humidity of the breeding soil should be monitored, and when it exceeds 20%, dry breeding soil should be replaced.
The main methods of breeding centipedes at the Agricultural Science and Technology People-Oriented Breeding Base include box breeding, tank breeding, and pool breeding. Regardless of which method is used, gaps and burrows for centipedes to rest must be created, with appropriate sizes that ensure both activity space for the centipedes and ease of management for the breeders.
Fiberboard and 1.5 cm thick wooden strips can be nailed together to form a wooden box. Generally, the box is 50 cm wide, 100 cm long, and 40 cm high. An iron or plastic mesh lid is configured on the box opening, and a layer of plastic film used for food packaging is attached inside to keep the inner wall smooth. A 5-15 cm layer of breeding soil is placed at the bottom of the box, with 20 tiles (five stacked together) placed inside. The tiles should be cleaned and fully hydrated. A gap of about 2 cm is left in the middle for the centipedes to rest. The middle part does not contain tiles, serving as both the dining area for the centipedes and their nighttime activity place. Such a wooden box can accommodate 200-300 medium-sized centipedes or 100-150 large centipedes per square meter. The surrounding fiberboard can also be replaced with polyethylene woven netting to form a cage similar to a mosquito net. This type of cage is lightweight and can be stacked into a three-dimensional cage, saving space.
Hubei Centipede Breeding Comprehensive Processing Hubei Centipede Breeding Promotion Center Agricultural Science and Technology People-Oriented Breeding Base uses glass tanks or ceramic tanks.
1. Location Selection
The breeding pool location should be selected on a sunny slope, avoiding rain season water accumulation and winter north wind direct blowing to ensure a relatively warm microclimate.
2. General Construction of Breeding Pools
Common breeding pools are rectangular, with size determined according to specific situations. The bottom is preferably constructed with bricks and cement-sand seam plastering. Brick bottoms have stronger water permeability than cement floors. The walls inside the pool are filled with "virgin soil". The inner wall surface is smoothed with cement and then fitted with glass or plastic film. Adding smooth materials effectively prevents centipedes from climbing up the walls and escaping. Therefore, when embedding each piece of glass or attaching film, meticulous work is required; otherwise, even if centipedes cannot climb the smooth inner wall, they can still use their row of legs to grip rough longitudinal seams and escape from the pool. The "virgin soil" inside the pool should be soil without large amounts of farmyard manure. This kind of soil is purer, with fewer pathogenic microorganisms, and less likely to cause internal pool pollution. Some people add cow dung and other fertilizers along with some chicken feathers and bones to the soil layer inside the pool to produce insects as food for centipedes. However, this is not a good method because these added substances are not essential nutrients for centipedes but instead create conditions for microbial proliferation (such as bacteria and mold), hindering the hygiene of the pool environment and easily causing contamination. Centipede black mold disease is related to environmental pollution. The height of the embedded glass inner wall needs to reach 30-40 cm. Currently, the height of the breeding pool walls (the height above the external ground level of the pool wall) is designed to be 40 cm by some and as high as 75-100 cm by others. The reason for doubling the wall height is to prevent rat intrusion. Some breeding pools have a 15-20 cm wide feeding ring around the inner wall and a 12 cm wide, 1.5 cm deep shallow water ditch outside the feeding ring, providing centipedes with places to eat and drink water. At the same time, setting up a shallow water ditch also prevents centipedes from escaping.
Hubei Centipede Breeding Comprehensive Processing Hubei Centipede Breeding Promotion Center Agricultural Science and Technology People-Oriented Breeding Base 3. Construction of Rest Beds
Old methods just involved stacking soil blocks inside the walls, later changed to using broken bricks and tiles piled up inside the pool as resting beds for centipedes. Recently, there has been a significant improvement with whole bricks being used to construct more regular centipede nests (resting beds). Constructing vertical nests within a breeding pool can simultaneously adopt two structural forms: one is the all-horizontal brick style, and the other is the horizontal-vertical brick style. However, according to experimental observations, there is always a noticeable difference in the number of centipedes leaving their nests at night between the two styles, i.e., significantly more come out from the all-horizontal brick nest, while very few come out from the horizontal-vertical brick nest. It is speculated that this may be related to the different utilization areas of the two types of nests. Because the effective utilization area of the all-horizontal brick nest is larger, and lying flat saves effort and ensures safety, more inhabitants reside there, whereas the effective utilization area of the horizontal-vertical brick nest is much smaller, with limited longitudinal space only suitable for crawling and unsuitable for habitation, hence fewer inhabitants. Therefore, when constructing vertical nests, it is preferable to adopt the all-horizontal brick style. The old-style nests require higher costs and additional facilities for shading, rain protection, and rodent prevention. Thus, a new-style nest with lower cost and no need for additional facilities was designed. The cross-section of this new-style nest is tower-shaped, made of bricks and adobe. In terms of structure, it adopts the horizontal brick style, as shown in Figure 4-1(C). The outer layer uses bricks (24 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm), while the inner layer uses equally sized adobes, which can be built into nests of different sizes and multiple layers. The outer layer made of bricks is waterproof, with narrow gaps of about 1 cm allowing centipedes to enter and exit while preventing rodent invasion. Using adobes internally not only reduces costs but also provides better thermal insulation. During cooling seasons, centipedes can move inward or downward, gathering at the bottom of the nest. When winter comes, rice straw or other insulating materials can be laid on top. During hibernation, additional insulating materials can be added on the outside. This tower-shaped nest can be made either large or small; larger ones are better for outdoor mass breeding.
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