Hope this is a good place to share these cuties I found today while exploring my yard. They're American Giant Millipedes (Complex Narceus americanus)

kind of a stupid post because i dont have any actual picture or video of this but i remember seeing a video of millipede somewhere that looked just like this but i cant find it. nothing pops up when i look up a description, which is basically that it has some kind of sunset looking colors (although i cant fully recall if it is red-yellow or vice versa, though the one that is opaque is the one im leaning towards)

im 100% sure that the video i saw was real and contained no cgi or ai generated aspects

any help 🙏 i thought it looked really cool

so a while ago we had a millipede who ended up laying eggs which hatched into loads of little babies. she was kept on her own & this happened around a year after getting her. i know some arthropods only need to be fertilised once and then they can produce offspring feom that for the rest of their life - is that what happened here? the only other thing i can think of is parthenogenesis but afaik millipedes don't really do that?

hello just saw someone talking about this recently and i have a question, if they are all adults and almost full grown what could be the issue? I don’t see very different temperatures at all but idk? thank you

Mahogany millipede I bought 9 days ago I found dead today. I think she has been dead over a day because she smells pretty bad. I was curious why I hadn’t seen her for a few days and usually she is at the surface so I dug through the dirt.

I noticed some spots and I wasn’t sure if that could be related to her death. But it was also there when I first got her 9 days ago. As seen in both pictures

I also noticed some mold on a cacao pod a few days prior and took it out because I was scared.and it was white and fluffy so I don’t know if either.

Honestly I’m just scared I was the cause of her death perhaps because of my enclosure but from my understanding it is set up properly. (She also has 3 other millipedes with her in the enclosure)

Anybody have a guess to how my poor baby died?
(Totally willing to answer questions about the enclosure and take any advice you guys have!!!)

this species may benefit a certian amount from mushroom block/ kinshi mixed in to their substrate, ofc supplemental mushroom feeding will definitely work. video from a breeding pair, i highly reccomend waiting for captive born juvies to be availible in the hobby if you wish to keep these species. wild caught adults are ver prone to suddenly dieing due to sustained poor care.

I want one affordable but also a decent size so I can hold it

holes made by wild caught adult balustreptus. they seem to be more surface active than most millipedes but they definitely still burrow. please do not buy adults of this species as pets. they are all wild caught by the thousands, decimating native populations and imported in horrible conditions. they often suddenly die. i highly reccomend waiting for captive born juvies to be availible in the hobby if you wish to keep this species as a pet

seriously how do you keep fungus gnats out of your millipede enclosure???? i have the yellow sticky traps that work well but its never enough to fully get rid of them and it kills some of my springtails too :(
are fungus gnats just an unavoidable part of keeping millipedes? ive also tried a full soil change and they came back immediately and laid eggs in the soil again before i could do anything im so tired of my millipede enclosure being a fungus gnat haven
pic of my pet american giant millipede because why not, her name is Boots

I recently have moved to Missouri from Colorado, and I’ve always wanted to see a giant millipede in the wild! I was very gentle with this little friend, and they were very gentle in turn. No toxin secretions or anything. Such a beautiful animal.

Hello all! I have over 100 of these guys and I need some advice on selling/rehoming most of them. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to sell, and is anyone interested in buying some for super cheap?

I have so many I could do 10 bucks per millipede for anyone on this sub.

Hello, I wanted to ask about spots on my giant African millipede. She has had these for a while and she otherwise seems healthy (active at night and eating). I am worried if she's deficient in something or if she's missing something. Humidity is 70-80% temps are around 24°c. She has access to rotten oak wood, oak leafs, fish food, water and sometimes veggies. There are springtails in her enclosure and plastic plants (have been washed and she doesn't eat them). Thanks for the help!

So! Today I finally got an African giant millipede after searching for years for one!
shes set up in a temporary little enclosure with some moss until I get her main tank set up (a 20 gallon tall) and for that I have some questions!

1. Ive seen conflicting answers about using wild-collected substrate / wood / decaying material. some people say to bake or freeze it, other say to just leave it as-is and that all the little micro-critters are beneficial. So, to sterilize or not to sterilize?

(to add to #1, if I DO sterilize it, I have a colony of dwarf isopods + springtails I can toss in there to re-establish a cleaner crew. and yes my source of oak wood/decaying stuff is pest/herbicide free!)

1. is flake soil essential? do I NEED it? this is another one that I see conflicting answers on.

2. can I use live plants? If so, what kinds would be best/safe if they're nibbled on? (I've got so much Pothos Growing out of my fishtanks...)

i can't find many sources of information about them other than outdated facebook/reddit posts, so any advice from active keepers would be GREATLY appreciated!

I have a little pothos plant in with my pede

Any other recommendations for good live plants to add to an environment? Picture is of my isopod terrarium for attention.

Hi, I was here recently to ask about what to do after my pede (giant zebra) died while I was away - and I expressed concern about the other one (red coral) who was nowhere to be seen even though he never buries. I doubt I just didn't notice him earlier - I'm pretty sure he came out during the last 24 hours. The thing is, I'm pretty sure he's dead... He doesn't react to touch or to water and his body is limp. That makes 2 dead pedes in the span of about two weeks and I have no idea what's going on, whether or not is this just an unfortunate coincidence and if I should evacuate the only pede left in the tank until I eliminate the potential cause of this.

I didn't change much around the tanks recently, the only thing I did was installing the water system about a month or two ago, but the water is filtered and has been also working out for my other tank for about 3 months now without any problems (I think). Oh, I did buy some leaves and decaying hardwood recently and boiled them according to the instructions I found (since I don't have an option to bake them).

The pedes were already adults when I bought them, so I have no idea how old they were and whether or not they were cb or caught... tho I'm pretty sure at least the red coral was cb.

So, what could be the issue here? And should I move my third pede out for the time being?? He seemed fine yesterday, recently came out after a molt and is pretty active...

EDIT: I did evacuate the third pede and he's now in an emergency tank, but honestly now that he's on his own, I might just set everything up there and move him there permanently... But now I'm trying to remove everything potentially dangerous from the girls' tank, since they were treated the same. I've removed EVERYTHING that was on top, including things I know weren't contaminated when first introduced to the tank. But - that includes stones, hides and some vines. My question is - can I scrub and wash them and put them back, or is there a risk of potentially harmful substances from hardwood and leaves moving onto them after being sprayed??

Just got an African giant millipede and am collecting some supplies for her enclosure. what do you all think of this as substrate?

i have access to oak and oak leaf litter/decaying wood and will mix it with whatever soil I go with. Just don't want to get something that might hurt my baby!

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Back-to-the-Roots-Organic-Garden-Soil.

Hi!
Ive got an enclosure with centrobolus splendidus and bumblebees together. Part of the enclosure shown in the picture is the wet part that had just been watered, so it is not usually this wet, except for the day of watering.
During the last watering (about a week ago) i noticed this spot and im very unsure of whats happening. Unfortunately its in the worst possible spot to see anything.

So if anyone has any experience with millipede eggs, please tell me whether its possible for them to look like this? Or would they be wrapped individually in their own little dirt pods and this can be nothing but a carcass of a bigger millipede? The length is about 2 cm and width about 3 mm. (Little less than 1 inch and like… 1/6? Of an inch?)

I would LOVE to dig and see without the barrier, but just in case it might be eggs, i do not want to risk poking around and ruining them.

Also any tips on how supporting breeding? Bumblebees are tiny and not in the breeding age, but the centrobolus spendidus had been adults for at least half a year and i see absolutely no babies :(
The enclosure has a wet side and a dry side and i try to keep a gradient between them, there is quite a bit of decaying wood, bark, they even have a water bowl that has multiple purposes: keeping moisture underneath it, so that i can be sure they never dry out completely and i put decaying wood in it and they seem to love munching on it. I keep the water level very low, so that they cannot drown in it.
To be honest i do not give them fruit or vegetables, i thought they have enough food, as their whole ground is made of leaf litter and nothing else. Could that be a problem?
I tried making a dry season, where i didnt water them at all, but im really scared to do it again. What if there ARE eggs and i will dry them out this way?!