millipedebastard
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I have recently got a giant millipede, possibly a wild-caught adult thyropygus sp. She looks healthy and is actively exploring her enclosure, burrowing, and nibbled on a small piece of apple. However, multiple times when I touched her she begins to shake her head and sort of tucks her head a lil bit underneath her, untucks, curls halfway, uncurls, and looks as if she is struggling by twisting her front body around. She would also walk backwards while doing this. She however does not excrete. She then will return back to normal after about 30 seconds or so. She does not curl up into a whole ball. She is my first millipede and I am inexperienced.
Her substrate consists of mostly flake soil, some peat moss, spaghnum moss and dried out catappa leaves with a large rotting oak log, and a small pinch of reptile calcium powder. Could she be ill? Or is it a normal part of their defense mechanism?
I attached a video for reference. This was moments after she climbed onto my hand a bit before backing away and did this instead for about 30 seconds. This happened a few times.
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Her substrate consists of mostly flake soil, some peat moss, spaghnum moss and dried out catappa leaves with a large rotting oak log, and a small pinch of reptile calcium powder. Could she be ill? Or is it a normal part of their defense mechanism?
I attached a video for reference. This was moments after she climbed onto my hand a bit before backing away and did this instead for about 30 seconds. This happened a few times.
View attachment 20221231_004214.mp4
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