Copper Metallic Giant Pill Millipede

Millipedes

MOQ 100 head

Partners Only

30 – 40 mm body length; balls up to roughly cherry/golf-ball size

Non-venomous. A giant pill millipede that rolls into a tight, armoured ball as its main defence; secretes only a mild quinone-type fluid that can faintly stain. Safe to handle.

Eastern Thai lowland and hill evergreen forest. Type species described from Koh Sichang, Chonburi; lives in damp leaf litter and on the forest floor. 0 – 700 m.

Detritivore — decaying leaf litter, rotting wood, fungi and decomposing plant matter.

24 – 28 °C ambient — 22 °C cool end

80 – 90 %. Keep substrate consistently moist with deep leaf litter; provide a shallow water dish.

None required (nocturnal/cryptic).

Decaying hardwood leaf litter and rotten wood as the staple; supplement with cucumber, squash, mushroom and a calcium source (cuttlebone). Replenish leaf litter continually.

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.

Harmless and docile; rolls into a tight ball when disturbed. An excellent, handleable display species.