His soul is pure as the most expensive gold jewels.
His heart as innocent as apple pie filling on a fall evening.
His many legs hold my heart with the strength of ten thousand moons.
His eyes, while primitive, will see how much I love and care for him until the end of time itself.
As the title states, I keep a variety of millipedes in a 35 gallon tank. Every few months, I find another has passed away. I just lost one of my African giants and am getting increasingly frustrated by this loss!
I keep A. gigas, thai rainbow, scarlet (Trigoniulus corallinus), and red spotted white tree millipedes.
They are housed on a soil comprised of organic top soil, worm castings, rotten hardwood, non-dyed sphagnum, hardwood leaf litter, and BioLife substrate from The Defiant Forest. Cuttlefish bone is provided. The tank is about 8" deep at the back, 4.5" at the front and all water used is distilled. Cage decorations include a deer skull cap, deer antler, cork bark tunnel, and bugleweed which the millipedes do not show any interest in.
We keep reptiles as well so out house usually stays in the 73-76 degree range.
Does anyone have any advice or input on why I might be losing millipedes intermittently? :( I love my little colony and each loss is truly heartbreaking!
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Hi, so I usually am able to identify male and female but after my colony completely got wiped out by dwarf whites(cat knocked over the bin of the dwarfs, I cleaned them up but unbeknownst to me they got into my milli tank and ate all my pedes faces off…it was horrific and I only had 1 survivor), I ended up getting 3 more from a friend and two are juvenile. I cannot really tell from looking at legs if they’re male but it unfortunately looks like all 4 of the ivories I have are female. Can anyone confirm? Thanks!