Question About Millipede "Stains"

First off, try not to rile them I suppose

I have always let the stains go naturally and in a few days they were gone. If your hands are not used for anything that would tend to rub skin off maybe they last longer. I'd try taking some abrasives to the stained areas to get some of the outer coat of skin off and promote new skin growth.

I don't have any chemical remedies for you except to wash off with soap and water asap.

You could just don some disposable gloves when handling them.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought to use them for fertilizer! I've only just started though. Do you use them just like you'd use worm castings?

Whoa, the stains I've received only lasted a few days (never handled a Narceus though). I wonder if there's something different about Narceus poison that makes the stain last longer. I've got no advice for removing it, I'm afraid.

 

Lime/lemon peels/juice can be used to hasten the stain removal in your skin or clothes

 

Be aware that you may be removing eggs when you do this.

 

But it is good that you do this because otherwise the substrate could poison the pedes. It does flamelegs at least, but then I usually have several hundred young in a container, so maybe the sheer numbers just exhaust the substrate quickly.

So what you do is put the old substrate in a separate container where you let it sit for a few months, then look for babies. If there are none you can use it as potting soil.

I decided to take my own advice and use a disposable glove today when moving many pedes...awesome. No stains--no dirt on my hands even.

 

I gently remove the old substrate and gently add new dead leaves, coir, moss and rotten wood. I then use this "recharged" and diluted substrate to start new colonies in new enclosures. This preserves any possible eggs and provides a healthy substrate. By doing this I have accumulated a large number of Trigoniulus macropygus (Flameleg Millipede) colonies. I never take this substrate from one millipede species and started a new colony with another millipede species.

 

As space and time is limited one can't use your method forever

 

Cool!

---------- Post added 06-20-2014 at 09:59 PM ----------

...if one contemplates the "millipede space-time continuum" all methods are possible forever...

 

LOL. I'll have to come to your house in a few more years...probably be hard to walk in there hehe!

 

lol...ya, it's packed out already...too many arachnids and roaches...

 

Sorry OP for hijacking your thread.

I'll have to post a photo thread after I finish the tower that's going on top of my 100g aquarium...When you can't build out, build up! I mean hey, the wall is totally blank above the 100G...utilizing that space is just smart

 

Ya, sorry OP.

Yes, I would like to see that SDCPs.