That moment when you fall in love....

[Andee]

So I have a new bunch of babies staying with me... these little guys are Philipene Blue Millipede young, the ones I have are no larger than and inch and a half. And super chubby butts. I have finally been able to handle one since two of my five surfaced tonight. The boy I handled is now named Kiwi (hoping to be able to tell everyone apart with little issues) he is the most calm little man and has the most ADORABLE face <3. I have to take better pictures but at least the one attached shows you his chubby body.

They all seem to LOVE the soil mixture I made. Have already eaten huge amounts and tunneled around <3 Happy milli babies. ^^

 

[kinyonga]

Neat! How big will they get to be?

 

[Andee]

They get between 6-8 inches. And of course are fat <3

 

[jamest0o0]

What kind of enclosure do you keep them in?

 

[Tortdad]

Feeders?

 

[jamest0o0]

No, nothing eats them. They give off a foul taste to anything that tries and many if not all are toxic

 

[Andee]

Currently these guys are in a large Critter keeper because they are so small, I will end up switching them to larger 20 gallon sized sterilite or rubbermaid containers.

 

[kinyonga]

If you can't use them as feeders I suppose you're keeping them as let's Andee??
They get pretty big! What color are they as adults?

 

[Andee]

Yeah I keep a lot of invertebrates just because, millipedes are one of those species. And these guys will go from this peach to army green to black and blue when they come into maturity. Absolutely a beautiful species.

 

[Andee]

I would love to have AGB millipedes but I won't touch that species for a bit. I mean I think currently my substrate mixture is great and healthy food for them... But I don't want to push too far yet. If I am honest these guys sell nicely in the long run, but the won't be breedable for at least another year or two. The usually price is above 30 dollars for a single individual and I won't be able to keep all the babies they have. But these guys were just too amazing not to get

 

[kinyonga]

You better post photos when they grow up!

 

[Andee]

I will try my best! They may be ones I use my actual camera for because getting the correct shade of blue they sport is next to impossible. It always comes out a grey blue in most pics that I have seen but most people say it's a sky blue

 

[kinyonga]

I know what you mean. The eye and camera see colors much differently than some of the devices we use.

 

[Andee]

Yeah, currently I am keeping these guys in a back bedroom because it's much cooler back there and I prefer to not use ice packs until necessary we have hit 105 degree weather earlier today I think outside it's now 90 or something inside it hasn't gone over 85 but even then that's too warm for them, thankfully their soil temps are 5 degrees lower and I don't want them passed 80.

 

[kinyonga]

@Andee did you know this??
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52378/monkeys-use-mosquito-repellent-too

 

[Andee]

Lemurs do that too with giant millipedes except they don't kill them the majority of the time. Just agitate them enough to secrete the enzyme and rub it on themselves.

I held a new baby tonight, female and much much darker. I couldn't get a picture of her because I couldn't find my phone at the time. Her name is Cherry, short for Cherry Pie.

Enjoy Kiwi face below though ^^

so before uploading this I was able to meet another new face, so Kiwi is my big male, I have two females Melon who will be the girl depicted below who is my longer but thinner of the big ones, and Cherry who is shorter and major chub, kind of in between the length of Kiwi and Melon. Melon and Kiwi are chill, Cherry is a bit more shy and shows it with nervous body stiffness when picking her up. Cherry is a super dark charcoal color. Kiwi is a peachy color, and Melon is a light grey with lots of metallic sheen. Wonderful babies for sure. Their faces are to die for.

 

[kinyonga]

They're awesome!

I knew lemurs used them as insect repellant too but didn't crush them...so interesting.

I had one millipede years ago but don't know why species it was. It was mahogany color and maybe 5" long.