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Older cockroaches do slow down and can have trouble walking on loose substrate, so either make sure it's packed down, remove it, or put down something to walk on. There's not much else you can do, other than keep conditions stable and don't hassle her. Getting old isn't being sick and there's no...

Choose the size of container for the size of colony you want. Feed them a set quantity of food. Do nothing else. They'll control their own colony size. That's one of the good things about woodlice. You have too many because you didn't let them sort it out and kept adding them to new enclosures...

Their full name is yellow mealworm beetles (Tenebrio molitor). They're the ones sold as feeders. You can keep all the life stages together and they breed well. You already have woodlice, so if you get excess larvae, just prekill them and feed them to the woodlice.

Mealworms.

Sorry to see it got worse. I suspect the black stuff was her innards coming out, so there wasn't anything you could do. It did look like an injury rather than anything else, so shouldn't be any issue for the others.

I saw people saying it was a couple of years when I got mine. She was an adult and lived for about a year and a half with me.

There are lots of little critters that move in with millipedes, so they could easily be springtails, fly larvae, soil nematodes... nothing to worry about if they're any of those. Baby millipedes are basically smaller versions of the adults without the colour and with fewer legs. They get longer...

I've collected a few with leaf litter, but they've not taken off in enclosures. It'll be the big autumn haul soon, so I'll be giving it another go. I suspect part of the issue is I haven't found enough of the same species. Larger ones I've seen locally include Orchesella cincta and an Entomobrya...

Do you wear eyeliner though?

I'm not sure what you mean by a raster, but turn the millipede over and see if it looks like the legs were cleanly removed or it looks more like mycosis (black/brown leg stumps). Also, post a picture of what you think might have caused the damage.

My colony started with mealworms all the same size. A few years later, they're all mixed ages, so I have all sizes of mealworms and beetles. I keep a small colony in a critter keeper style enclosure and swap them to a new enclosure with fresh substrate once they eat the main substrate (I use...

The most commonly sold predatory mites will wipe out all your tiny critters, so I don't recommend it. Also, don't panic about little critters living in the soil. A bioactive setup is going to end up with fruit flies, fungus gnats, springtails, mites, soil nematodes and more. I'd personally boil...

I don't have them, but what I've seen looks like typical Porcellio care. Following the basic guides for P. scaber wouldn't be a bad place to start.

I remember people saying they thought the spiders might have escaped. It'd be a good idea to get the new enclosures sorted as people suggested and then search the enclosure to see if you can find the spider to rehouse. Or you'll confirm that they've escaped. There's a difference between gone as...

In former avics, I looked up the environment for Caribena laeta some time back. I found a study which measured the temperature and humidity in the canopy, where the spiders were out hunting. The relative humidity was always high. The idea that the canopy of rainforests has low humidity wasn't...

Fill the house with pholcids.

I use an aquarium dechlorinator as well. It also deals with heavy metals in the water as well as chlorine/chloramine.

This came up with millipedes and we weren't sure if they could safely eat the leaves, but didn't think they'd be nutritious. Then someone found this, which was documenting using cannabis as a pesticide. In general, cannabis appears to stunt growth rather than quickly killing. Only some...

There aren't going to be the needed wild studies for the foreseeable future. This is the trouble with saying there's no proof. Technically true, but it'd be more accurate to say there haven't been sufficient studies to draw any firm conclusions. There was someone here who wanted to do formal...

It's normal for them to disappear for a bit. You don't need to add new substrate that often, especially with only three of them. It can wait.