#ads_millipedes

[adragonsoulants]

Managed to get some millipede photos today! Little guy could smell cucumber on my finger and was trying to eat it!

Dw he got the cucumber in the end.

Uploading some videos of the lil guy trying to eat my finger. I'll have those up here in a little bit.

[adragonsoulants]

I was giving the arthropods some carrots and other foods and opened the millipede container to see little babies crawling around on the bark I have in there!

It's so cool how transparent they are!

One of them next to their assumed father haha!

So exciting to see that the millipedes are doing so well, I was a little worried after I didn't see any of the adults for a few weeks but they were probably just molting or hanging out under the soil.

[adragonsoulants]

Guess what... I managed to find some more millipedes at a reptile expo

This time some Smokey Oaks 👀

The one in my hand started nibbling me right as I took them out of the container. was very hungry I take it, it was the only one that went to town on the cucumber slice I gave them.

Yay :3

[adragonsoulants]

Baby millipede

Made a sperate container to put a few american giant babies in as the parent container has a huge mite infestation and I was worried about it hurting some of the babies. However as I was looking around I noticed the mites mostly stayed on the surface and just below the surface was loaded with a healthy spring tail population!

The baby bin has millipede frass in it to hopefully ensure good gut health of the babies!

[adragonsoulants]

Some buggy photos

Millipedes enjoying a cucumber. Can see a little baby trying to get some too.

Some crude photos of the P. Floria, just enamored by their shine. They're also quite skilled at climbing smooth plastic (for an isopod that is). Also looks like a couple of them are gravid too.

I got to see one of their sheds a couple days ago and it was so cool looking!

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Little baby alert!!!

Narceus americanus baby

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A photo shoot for the springtail enjoyers (yellow slime is just nutritional yeast, food for them)

Plus a bonus baby N. Americanus millipede

[adragonsoulants]

I got some millipedes today, and my god, I love them. They're so chill and of all the critters I've had crawling in my hands these guys are suprisingly pleasant to handle! Big enough that it's not like ticklish but they feel almost like a real soft valcro...

Don't know if it's something easily described...

Anyways, Giant pink footed millipedes or Narceus americanus !

Got 3 total, 2 females and a male

The male decided the cup was better to nibble on than the tub I set up for them.

Their current setup is a little bit makeshift sense I couldn't get my hands on some organic compost and I didn't want to keep them in the cup until tomorrow so I just used normal soil from outside and pasteurized it. Otherwise it's got leaves and a good bit of hydrated wood pellets, calcium powder, and a handful of rotting wood flakes mixed into the soil. And added springtails!

Also I've seen alot of sites list using Coco coir in their soil mixes but when I asked the breeder what he recommended for soil he was pretty clear that Coco coir is pretty bad for them and can cause digestive issues leading to a premature death sense it's indigestible to them... So I guess do your own research but from what I know it's pretty non-nutritional to detritivores including isopods too.