Millepede setup? (Future)

[squibbleee]

im planning on getting a millepede (chicobolus spinigerus) in the next few months, and i was wondering about my plan, and if its good. I have heard amazing things about the substrate i chose, so i am gonna use that. I collected a bag of oak leaves from my yard (we dont spray for pests or anything), and i found a bunch of oak bark peices in my woods too. I am going to use these, and then i will buy sphagnum moss, and this substrate pictured below, and a food bowl. Also, please tell me what water is recommended? I am seeing very different veiws on watering. I am going to use a ten gallon tank, with a thermometer/humidity gauge. Is this about right? Please tell me any thing i should or shouldnt do, i wanna get everything good enough to keep an ivory happy.

 

[viper69]

Do others spray in your immediate area? If so, that’s too risky.

 

[squibbleee]

Do others spray in your immediate area? If so, that’s too risky.

I dont really know. Its possible that one certain neighbor does. If i wash then bake them, would that help or no? But i chose the leaves way down in the back of my yard, the neighbor is completely opposite and very far from where i got them.

 

[Brewser]

Only You would know if its good to go.
Just make sure you collect in an unpolluted area.

 

[squibbleee]

Only You would know if its good to go.
Just make sure you collect in an unpolluted area.

Ok, thankyou! I believe it will be ok. I got leaves from around the same area for my isopods, and they are alive, just making sure. Thankyou!

 

[viper69]

I dont really know. Its possible that one certain neighbor does. If i wash then bake them, would that help or no? But i chose the leaves way down in the back of my yard, the neighbor is completely opposite and very far from where i got them.

Not worth it. Unless you dump some crix in their first and see if they die