MontePython
Arachnosquire
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Hi!
I've been lurking for a while but finally felt that I needed to get some advice. A little over two weeks ago (26 Jan), I got an Ophistreptus guineensis millipede, along with two other species (an A. gigas and a Spirostreptidae sp. 8) that I brought home. I've been monitoring the humidity and temperature and so far everything has been well within range, and for a while everyone was doing fine.
However, a few days ago (I want to say around the 6th or 7th), my O. guineensis started acting oddly. When she was on the surface, she would spend a lot of time in a sort of pretzel shaped half-curl, though she would sometimes appear to be grooming herself or moving around a little at one end or the other. To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen her 100% stretched out and walking the way I've seen the others.
At one point she wasn't even really curling up much at all when disturbed, or would only tuck her head (it got better for a few days, but yesterday, again she kind of curls her front half, but not her back half - the back half SEEMS mobile - the legs are moving and she seems to be able to get around but she can't seem to curl it as much?). I know she's eaten some (I saw her eating a bit of leaf and some mini cucumber), and the substrate is definitely moist. I also know that she's managed to move to different parts of the enclosure, though only really within a localised area.
Curiously, whatever's bothering her seems to not be bothering the other two at all - they've been thriving and active. I haven't seen any mites on her or the others (apart from the personal mites on my A. gigas),
I've taken a few pictures and two videos all from around the 8th to the 10th kind of showing what I've been seeing roughly and have numbered them in the order they were taken and put them in this folder (the second video has my fingers in it, to kind of show what I meant about the curl): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qGHiEsywyLuxrYcU3MwdFb7Rs37MqEj9
Based on everything I've read in other threads as well as in other sources, it seems like possibly I just happened to pick out a millipede who was already towards the end of her life perhaps, but every time I think maybe she's a goner, I wake up and she's still there. I guess I just want some kind of confirmation of what might be going on and an idea of the best way to proceed from here.
I've been lurking for a while but finally felt that I needed to get some advice. A little over two weeks ago (26 Jan), I got an Ophistreptus guineensis millipede, along with two other species (an A. gigas and a Spirostreptidae sp. 8) that I brought home. I've been monitoring the humidity and temperature and so far everything has been well within range, and for a while everyone was doing fine.
However, a few days ago (I want to say around the 6th or 7th), my O. guineensis started acting oddly. When she was on the surface, she would spend a lot of time in a sort of pretzel shaped half-curl, though she would sometimes appear to be grooming herself or moving around a little at one end or the other. To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen her 100% stretched out and walking the way I've seen the others.
At one point she wasn't even really curling up much at all when disturbed, or would only tuck her head (it got better for a few days, but yesterday, again she kind of curls her front half, but not her back half - the back half SEEMS mobile - the legs are moving and she seems to be able to get around but she can't seem to curl it as much?). I know she's eaten some (I saw her eating a bit of leaf and some mini cucumber), and the substrate is definitely moist. I also know that she's managed to move to different parts of the enclosure, though only really within a localised area.
Curiously, whatever's bothering her seems to not be bothering the other two at all - they've been thriving and active. I haven't seen any mites on her or the others (apart from the personal mites on my A. gigas),
I've taken a few pictures and two videos all from around the 8th to the 10th kind of showing what I've been seeing roughly and have numbered them in the order they were taken and put them in this folder (the second video has my fingers in it, to kind of show what I meant about the curl): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qGHiEsywyLuxrYcU3MwdFb7Rs37MqEj9
Based on everything I've read in other threads as well as in other sources, it seems like possibly I just happened to pick out a millipede who was already towards the end of her life perhaps, but every time I think maybe she's a goner, I wake up and she's still there. I guess I just want some kind of confirmation of what might be going on and an idea of the best way to proceed from here.