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So I don't want to get my hopes up yet, but the night before last something very exciting happened: I saw two tiny millipedes up against the glass! However, they are very small and thin, about 1 cm (0.39 in) long and a bit less than 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. I don't know why but I expected a baby spirostreptid to be sort of shorter and fatter, not with the proportions of an adult millipede, so I'm wondering if these are perhaps native julids that came in with the substrate.
I definitely wasn't expecting to see babies so soon, since I don't even actually have a breeding pair yet. My A. gigas is female and was already an adult when I got her, but I'm not expecting these to be hers as I'm just a beginner and I know her species doesn't lay easily in captivity. That means if these are babies they probably come from one of my four Spirostreptidae species 8 females. I know my first was a juvenile when I got her and has since only mated with a male Delta Brown so I'm hoping they're not hers as I don't really want hybrids, but I was told that's very unlikely so I'm not too worried. That means they would have to have been laid by one of the three females I added on the 27 December this year. This is very surprising because I've only had them a little more than a month and I wasn't even sure they were adults when I bought them, which makes me think these guys probably are just hitchhikers. Unless I've been super lucky and have A. gigas babies? I don't know, what do you guy think?
I definitely wasn't expecting to see babies so soon, since I don't even actually have a breeding pair yet. My A. gigas is female and was already an adult when I got her, but I'm not expecting these to be hers as I'm just a beginner and I know her species doesn't lay easily in captivity. That means if these are babies they probably come from one of my four Spirostreptidae species 8 females. I know my first was a juvenile when I got her and has since only mated with a male Delta Brown so I'm hoping they're not hers as I don't really want hybrids, but I was told that's very unlikely so I'm not too worried. That means they would have to have been laid by one of the three females I added on the 27 December this year. This is very surprising because I've only had them a little more than a month and I wasn't even sure they were adults when I bought them, which makes me think these guys probably are just hitchhikers. Unless I've been super lucky and have A. gigas babies? I don't know, what do you guy think?