BensBeasts1 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Posted February 13, 2021 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. Quote
Ratmosphere Posted February 17, 2021 Report Posted February 17, 2021 Very cool. You into keeping other species at well? Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 18, 2021 Author Report Posted February 18, 2021 19 hours ago, Ratmosphere said: Very cool. You into keeping other species at well? Yes I have lot of different millipedes. Quote
Ratmosphere Posted February 18, 2021 Report Posted February 18, 2021 You try your hand at AGB yet? Quote
Beetlesforlife3 Posted February 18, 2021 Report Posted February 18, 2021 Cool. How did you do it? Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 18, 2021 Author Report Posted February 18, 2021 9 hours ago, Ratmosphere said: You try your hand at AGB yet? Not yet, haven’t found anyone selling any. Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 18, 2021 Author Report Posted February 18, 2021 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 Quote
Beetlesforlife3 Posted February 19, 2021 Report Posted February 19, 2021 Are you sure there not a pest species that got in? No offense just curious. Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 19, 2021 Author Report Posted February 19, 2021 Nah Its definitely not another sp. I have no round millipedes that live in my backyard, just some greenhouse millipedes. Quote
Dynastes Posted February 19, 2021 Report Posted February 19, 2021 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. Quote
Lucanus Posted February 20, 2021 Report Posted February 20, 2021 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. Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 20, 2021 Author Report Posted February 20, 2021 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! Quote
Dynastes Posted February 20, 2021 Report Posted February 20, 2021 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. Quote
Lucanus Posted February 21, 2021 Report Posted February 21, 2021 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 Quote
Dynastes Posted February 22, 2021 Report Posted February 22, 2021 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. Quote
Lucanus Posted February 22, 2021 Report Posted February 22, 2021 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. Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted February 28, 2021 Author Report Posted February 28, 2021 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. Quote
Dynastes TItyus hunter Posted March 14, 2021 Report Posted March 14, 2021 I've never heard of any people breeding this species. Keep up the good work! Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted June 15, 2021 Author Report Posted June 15, 2021 I’m still growing them to adults its very slow. Quote
Hisserdude Posted June 16, 2021 Report Posted June 16, 2021 16 hours ago, BensBeasts1 said: I’m still growing them to adults its very slow. Any pics of them in their current growth phase? Quote
BensBeasts1 Posted June 18, 2021 Author Report Posted June 18, 2021 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. Quote
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