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I'm very sorry for your loss... He was a beautiful dog.

Yep, I certainly will. In the summer, I think I'd need to keep them open though. The humidity around here keeps the air extremely....thick. I would have ended up with a moldy mess in there otherwise.

There's a picture of the enclosure they were in. I took this picture after I had discovered them dead. From all of my digging around, the leaves look all piled up and dirt kinda all over. It wasn't like that when they were in there. Our heating vent is against the wall underneath the...

That was the single most awesome thing I've seen all week! Thanks for sharing!

I wish I had those kind of colleagues!!

Never, ever, ever underestimate humidity (or the lack thereof) in the winter. I discovered all 5 of my millis dead a couple days ago and it was purely because we had a cold snap here, the heater was going a lot, and the air outside was just ridiculously dry anyway. All of my other conditions...

Cool then. Semi-arboreal fits and therefore, so does his setup. I forgot to mention all of the usual details: He's 3.5", not mature (if he is, in fact, a he), last molt was in May, and while he used to eat like a piggy, he's been fasting for the winter. I've offered crickets, roaches...

Ugh... I'm at a loss with this one. From the little bit of info I managed to find, it seems that this species should be semi-arboreal. So when I got it 9 months ago (or so), I set it up in an appropriately sized KK with some fake flowers and branches diagonally set in there. I basically did...

"Yes, I'd like to buy some of your largest containers please." Why yes, of course! Would you like the pretzels or cheeseballs?" "Neither. Just the containers." "........"

I must be a really horrible person cause I laughed a little at the video. I didn't have the sound on, so I had a commentary playing in my head. "Now you wrap the bacon loosely around the jalapeno slice...."

And the first time you go to mess with the soil of the houseplant, you'll regret deciding to use hair-laden dirt. Plus, those hairs can blow through the air. Personally, I'd dump it.

Gah... You're right. Let me chalk up this brain fart to extreme exhaustion. And then let me stick to my experience with mites and millipedes.

Actually, you'll want to lower humidity to get rid of mites. Use a water dish, but dry out the enclosure as much as possible. The mites should die off.

Oy... With all of the genera messes going on, it's a wonder we breeds anything except maybe OBTs anymore.

The "bent" abdomen is very interesting! I wonder if it didn't have enough room to properly stretch and move after the last molt and it just hardened crooked. The white stuff very well might be poo, even though you said they tried to clean it off with q-tips. Have you ever tried to wash spider...

I am SO mad that I missed that picture!!

That last picture is ridiculously awesome. I almost want to reach into the screen and pat the little guy on the head.

I know that he was attempting to compare the effects of bites from different specimens. Again, if memory serves... He didn't do many more because he did realized that there were too many variables in this sort of experiment.

Actually, we had an AB member on here a couple years ago that not only willingly got bitten, but he induced the bites. Go over to the Bite Reports section, look in the S. calceatum and H. maculata threads, then find the posts by Draiman. He also did the same thing with a Scolopendra...

You had a what?? :biggrin: