A healthy and hungry Sonoran desert species, these still benefit from being misted. Crickets and cockroaches are ideal foods. Darrin captured an 8 inch castaneiceps once that was crossing the road at night on the way to an American Tarantula Society show in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Scolopendra gigantea robusta This brighter variety of Scolopendra gigantea is one rough customer. They can attain a length of a foot or more.
Crickets are too small to be useful.
Larger cockroaches are fine. This creature also benefits from misting, but be sure that you have a tall container as these creatures become quite active if misted directly and you must be well prepared. Putting the container into a larger outer tub during maintenance can be very useful in preventing escape during maintenance. One robusta that he own is the only invertebrate we have given a pet name. When we were opening the box it arrived in, David Letterman was on the television.