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Arachnoknight
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- May 22, 2017
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Some newbie questions. I just want to make sure I'm using the right stuff for what will be possibly a C. spinigerus and an N. Gordanus that I have not yet bought. Yeah, I don't have any pedes yet, but I want to be on the safe side. :3
I'm getting a terrarium which has way more than enough room for millipedes even bigger than the N. Gordanus full grown, so the pair will be pretty spoilt I'd say.
My substrate will be 1/2 coco fibre and 1/2 leaves and crumbly wood, with a layer of leaves at the top. Since this mixture has so many leaves, I'm worried about the leaves I use. I have a large spinney in my garden which is practically a small forest, and it mainly has Rhododendrum and sycamore. The is a wet layer of thick forest floor at the bottom which bucket loads of humus and decomposing leaves. \(-w-)\
I also have some dry bamboo leaves which I will use, and a ton of other dry sycamore and rhododendrum leaves which I will use for the top layer and mix in the substrate. (I don't have many oak leaves but I'll make sure to get a good few in for protein). I'm gonna mix in cuttlefish bone and yadda yadda yadda.
This is for 1 C. Spinigerus and 1 N. Gordanus. Will it work? >w>
(extra; I live in Ireland, and we have cold winters and autumns and springs and very unstable summers. I think I should use a heat mat & thermostat set to 'bout 70F (as you americans would measure it), should I go with the heat mat and thermostat? (not under the substrate of course)
I'm getting a terrarium which has way more than enough room for millipedes even bigger than the N. Gordanus full grown, so the pair will be pretty spoilt I'd say.
My substrate will be 1/2 coco fibre and 1/2 leaves and crumbly wood, with a layer of leaves at the top. Since this mixture has so many leaves, I'm worried about the leaves I use. I have a large spinney in my garden which is practically a small forest, and it mainly has Rhododendrum and sycamore. The is a wet layer of thick forest floor at the bottom which bucket loads of humus and decomposing leaves. \(-w-)\
I also have some dry bamboo leaves which I will use, and a ton of other dry sycamore and rhododendrum leaves which I will use for the top layer and mix in the substrate. (I don't have many oak leaves but I'll make sure to get a good few in for protein). I'm gonna mix in cuttlefish bone and yadda yadda yadda.
This is for 1 C. Spinigerus and 1 N. Gordanus. Will it work? >w>
(extra; I live in Ireland, and we have cold winters and autumns and springs and very unstable summers. I think I should use a heat mat & thermostat set to 'bout 70F (as you americans would measure it), should I go with the heat mat and thermostat? (not under the substrate of course)