Bug Boy Wonder
Arachnopeon
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- Jan 19, 2017
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Hey all, new here!
When I was younger I always had critters as pets from a 14ft python to pink toe tarantulas. I recently got into naturalistic vivariums mainly for plants, however recently visited the reptile zoo near Newport Beach here in Southern California, and saw a couple gold desert millipedes for sale however they had them labeled as "yellow jacket millipedes".
So my question now that I have learned the millipede is from the desert should I be worried about having him/her in semi tropical invironment with flowing water?
To be more exact.
Temps usually sit around 78-82 degrees Fahrenheit.
Humidity is usually between 75-78%
Substrate consists of leaf litter, eco-earth, activated charcoal (help feed plants and springtails) and smashed up rotting wood.
The vivarium has been establishing for about almost a month, there are a collection of little friends in here consisting of springtails, pill bugs, two diabolical ironclad beetles, roughly 3 verities of North American garden millipede (from the yard), a garden slender salamander, a albino Cory catfish, a Chinese algae eater and a couple water snails and land snails.
Now this is all in a 12x12x18 eco-terra coupled with a mild heating lamp, a standard household CFL bulb, a small computer fan blowing into the vivarium from the top, and a heating mat (for the fish & water temp usually about 80 degrees Fahrenheit). I have a full spectrum LED panel on the way to replace the CFL.
Now my only experience with pet millipedes have been from baby sitting a friends giant African and he didn't do a whole lot.
I'm curious on my millipedes behavior, it moves around a whole lot and never seams to rest unless eating or cleaning. Should I be worried that he's not happy in this kind of set up or is this typical behavior for this species?
Short video: http://s31.photobucket.com/user/GHo...8-4341-A0B2-EC2AACDCE71F_zpsv34u0tov.mp4.html
When I was younger I always had critters as pets from a 14ft python to pink toe tarantulas. I recently got into naturalistic vivariums mainly for plants, however recently visited the reptile zoo near Newport Beach here in Southern California, and saw a couple gold desert millipedes for sale however they had them labeled as "yellow jacket millipedes".
So my question now that I have learned the millipede is from the desert should I be worried about having him/her in semi tropical invironment with flowing water?
To be more exact.
Temps usually sit around 78-82 degrees Fahrenheit.
Humidity is usually between 75-78%
Substrate consists of leaf litter, eco-earth, activated charcoal (help feed plants and springtails) and smashed up rotting wood.
The vivarium has been establishing for about almost a month, there are a collection of little friends in here consisting of springtails, pill bugs, two diabolical ironclad beetles, roughly 3 verities of North American garden millipede (from the yard), a garden slender salamander, a albino Cory catfish, a Chinese algae eater and a couple water snails and land snails.
Now this is all in a 12x12x18 eco-terra coupled with a mild heating lamp, a standard household CFL bulb, a small computer fan blowing into the vivarium from the top, and a heating mat (for the fish & water temp usually about 80 degrees Fahrenheit). I have a full spectrum LED panel on the way to replace the CFL.
Now my only experience with pet millipedes have been from baby sitting a friends giant African and he didn't do a whole lot.
I'm curious on my millipedes behavior, it moves around a whole lot and never seams to rest unless eating or cleaning. Should I be worried that he's not happy in this kind of set up or is this typical behavior for this species?
Short video: http://s31.photobucket.com/user/GHo...8-4341-A0B2-EC2AACDCE71F_zpsv34u0tov.mp4.html