Blonde Giant Pill Millipede
Zephronia siamensis
Wholesale
Category
Millipedes
Minimum order
MOQ 100 head
Per-head price
Partners Only
Overview
Adult Length
30 – 40 mm body length; balls up to roughly cherry/golf-ball size
Venom
Non-venomous. Rolls into a tight armoured ball as its main defence and secretes only a mild quinone-type fluid that can faintly stain. Safe to handle.
In the Wild
Habitat
Eastern Thai lowland and hill evergreen forest (Chonburi and neighbouring provinces). Lives in damp leaf litter and on the forest floor. 0 – 700 m.
Wild Diet
Detritivore — decaying leaf litter, rotting wood, fungi and decomposing plant matter.
Captive Care
Temperature
24 – 28 °C ambient — 22 °C cool end
Humidity
80 – 90 %. Keep substrate consistently moist with deep leaf litter; provide a shallow water dish.
UV Requirements
None required (nocturnal/cryptic).
Feeding
Decaying hardwood leaf litter and rotten wood as the staple; supplement with cucumber, squash, mushroom and a calcium source.
Enclosure
Humid terrestrial set-up with 8 – 12 cm of moist organic substrate, deep leaf litter and rotting wood; bark hides. Colony-tolerant. Min 30 × 30 cm for a group.
Temperament
Harmless and docile; balls up when disturbed. An excellent, handleable display species.
Distribution in Thailand