Baby Orthoporus ornatus

[BensBeasts1]

Help I have a millipede addiction!!! After multiple sightings of breeding  a small group of orthoporus ornatus has produced a 1st gen of cb babies!! The babies have already moulted once. I will give future updates and get more adults for this culture. I will also do a care and breeding guide in the future.
 

Pictured below is one of the adults.

[Reyes]

Interesting. They are cute.

[Ratmosphere]

Very cool. You into keeping other species at well?

[BensBeasts1]

19 hours ago, Ratmosphere said:

Very cool. You into keeping other species at well?

Yes I have lot of different millipedes.

[Ratmosphere]

You try your hand at AGB yet?

[Beetlesforlife3]

Cool. How did you do it?

[BensBeasts1]

9 hours ago, Ratmosphere said:

You try your hand at AGB yet?

Not yet, haven’t found anyone selling any.

[BensBeasts1]

5 hours ago, Beetlesforlife3 said:

Cool. How did you do it?

I was pretty easy I’m going to make a care and breeding sheet soon. Probably next week 

[Beetlesforlife3]

Are you sure there not a pest species that got in?  No offense just curious. 

[BensBeasts1]

Nah Its definitely not another sp. I have no round millipedes that live in my backyard, just some greenhouse millipedes.

[Dynastes]

You would be the first person to breed Orthoporus indoors. It seems unlikely as bigfoot but I'd be happy to trade for some. Also, from the number of legs and segments of the animal pictured it has molted at least 3 times if not a dozen.

[Lucanus]

Several people have posted about getting babies from their Orthoporus, accompanied with pictures of the babies. They look very similar to the babies in your picture so it's likely that they've been bred by several people already. 

[BensBeasts1]

2 hours ago, Lucanus said:

Several people have posted about getting babies from their Orthoporus, accompanied with pictures of the babies. They look very similar to the babies in your picture so it's likely that they've been bred by several people already. 

Nice, I’m glad that I’m one of the few to produce babies!

[Dynastes]

13 hours ago, Lucanus said:

Several people have posted about getting babies from their Orthoporus, accompanied with pictures of the babies. They look very similar to the babies in your picture so it's likely that they've been bred by several people already. 

I've followed people posting baby Orthoporus for decades but every thread I've followed disappeared or turned into julids. That's why I mentioned big foot since I've heard many stories but never yet a confirmation. Do you have a link you can share for a previous solid documentation? Still if these are babies then it should be possible to raise them and go again.

[Lucanus]

On 2/20/2021 at 5:21 AM, Dynastes said:

I've followed people posting baby Orthoporus for decades but every thread I've followed disappeared or turned into julids. That's why I mentioned big foot since I've heard many stories but never yet a confirmation. Do you have a link you can share for a previous solid documentation? Still if these are babies then it should be possible to raise them and go again.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFzmHUvnoMa/?igshid=oyzpoo3r144j

 

https://arachnoboards.com/threads/baby-millipedes.306971/

 

Here's two

[Dynastes]

9 hours ago, Lucanus said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFzmHUvnoMa/?igshid=oyzpoo3r144j

 

https://arachnoboards.com/threads/baby-millipedes.306971/

 

Here's two

From looking at those pictures I'd be hard pressed to believe either are Orthoporus, especially the instagram since there are almost certainly two different orders represented, neither of which appear to be Spirostreptida. The AB one is among my reference to disappeared threads since they never reached an appreciable size over a relatively long time and there was never an update with something bigger than a julid. Also, they are almost certainly julids because the smallest ones aren't the right shape to be that tiny for a large species.

[Lucanus]

12 hours ago, Dynastes said:

From looking at those pictures I'd be hard pressed to believe either are Orthoporus, especially the instagram since there are almost certainly two different orders represented, neither of which appear to be Spirostreptida. The AB one is among my reference to disappeared threads since they never reached an appreciable size over a relatively long time and there was never an update with something bigger than a julid. Also, they are almost certainly julids because the smallest ones aren't the right shape to be that tiny for a large species.

Orthoporus looks like giant Julids so i wouldn't be surprised if their babies looked like Julids too. Only time will tell I guess.

[FirFauna]

Nice!

[BensBeasts1]

Found 3 today one was to fast to photograph! They are growing, and I keep finding more, who knows how many are under the soil. 

[BensBeasts1]

Baby vs Adult 

[Dynastes TItyus hunter]

I've never heard of any people breeding this species. Keep up the good work!

[Hisserdude]

Any updates?

[BensBeasts1]

I’m still growing them to adults its very slow.

 

[Hisserdude]

16 hours ago, BensBeasts1 said:

I’m still growing them to adults its very slow.

 

Any pics of them in their current growth phase? 

[BensBeasts1]

Here is some of them some seem freshly emerged others are a few moults in. Its hard to tell how many are in the enclosure I estimate somewhere above or below 100.