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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!

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thai rainbows + Philippine giant blue from back when i first got them. the giant blue is now a moose and the rainbows have grown a lot too

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Little baby alert!!!

Narceus americanus baby

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I wasn't satisfied with the substrate for the millipedes (it was a tad shallow and packing itself kinda dense) but I couldn't find anywhere that had organic compost to do a full replace with. Plus one of the millipedes kept trying to climb out, so something wasn't right. I added a lot more crushed leaves and also a lot of worm castings, I've read of some people using this as an alternative to compost for them.

I gave them a cucumber for disturbing them (and the isopods too but no pictures)

The one millipede stopped trying to climb out after the soil addition and the others have been doing bits of digging around so I think the worm castings and more leaves helped.

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Centrobolus sp. "Mosambik"

Such a cutie! Look at all those tiny legs! I have four of these critters but they're usually very good at disappearing into the depths of the terrarium haha.