I might’ve messed up…

[foliummortuumbibudingus]

So I have five different millipede species living together in my large terrarium, I have plenty of space, food, and hiding for them all. I have a giant pinkleg, ghost oak, smokey oak, yellow banded cherry foot, and a black and white ivory. Three girls and two boys if I was sexing them properly…maybe not.

The reason I got different species is because I read that though millipedes of different species may mate, they wont have babies. I’m not prepared to have millipede larvae, or babies, or anything like that. But I just saw a post say that viable eggs may be laid anyway even if they’re different.

What should I do? Is there any way to prevent mating? Also maybe advice on properly sexing millipedes LOL

 

[TheraMygale]

Are you suggesting the possibility of hybrids, in you current enclosure?

 

[Andrew Clayton]

So I have five different millipede species living together in my large terrarium, I have plenty of space, food, and hiding for them all. I have a giant pinkleg, ghost oak, smokey oak, yellow banded cherry foot, and a black and white ivory. Three girls and two boys if I was sexing them properly…maybe not.

The reason I got different species is because I read that though millipedes of different species may mate, they wont have babies. I’m not prepared to have millipede larvae, or babies, or anything like that. But I just saw a post say that viable eggs may be laid anyway even if they’re different.

What should I do? Is there any way to prevent mating? Also maybe advice on properly sexing millipedes LOL

Never kept millipede but separating them will definitely prevent them mating.

 

[foliummortuumbibudingus]

Are you suggesting the possibility of hybrids, in you current enclosure?

maybe not a hybrid, but just viable eggs. i saw a post on here that said her milli had viable eggs even though they were different species (clones of the female, most likely), so i just got worried

 

[Wolfram1]

in regards to possible hybridisations

since you haven't listed the names of the species you keep i can't be sure, but usually i would avoid housing species from the same genus together. The likelyhood of cross-species hybridisation is magnitudes higher if they are part of the same genus, since they would be closely related.

this is also why names like "smokey oak" are useless, they tell you nothing about their phylogeny, unlike their scientific binomial names that give you at least some basic information like that:

Narceus gordanus, it's binomial tells you you may want to avoid keeping other species of the Narceus genus in the same bin, as a precaution.

you can look your other animals binomial names up yourself to make a determination for them.

 

[foliummortuumbibudingus]

in regards to possible hybridisations

since you haven't listed the names of the species you keep i can't be sure, but usually i would avoid housing species from the same genus together. The likelyhood of cross-species hybridisation is magnitudes higher if they are part of the same genus, since they would be closely related.

this is also why names like "smokey oak" are useless, they tell you nothing about their phylogeny, unlike their scientific binomial names that give you at least some basic information like that:

Narceus gordanus, it's binomial tells you you may want to avoid keeping other species of the Narceus genus in the same bin, as a precaution.

you can look your other animals binomial names up yourself to make a determination for them.

Ohh i see. i always wondered why people didnt use those simpler names until now. i just checked and a lot of my millis are the same genus. thank you for your help!! <3