Pill Bugs? Anyone have more info? *pics*

[daver676]

Hey guys. I saw some pics of these guys and I gotta ask if anyone here keeps them. How do you care for them? Food? Temp? Do you have pics of yours? Here are a few pics I found on the web. I didn't take them, but I'm not sure who to credit...:


http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2286pillmilli0bw.jpg

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2286pillmillicurled0id.jpg

[the_frog_man]

oh god i wish i could do you know were to get them?




thanx froggy

[daver676]

Originally posted by the_frog_man
oh god i wish i could do you know were to get them?




thanx froggy

Nope. Info is what I'm looking for as well.

[Kyle Barker]

I'd give my left nut for some of those!

i'll be googling fo rthem, if i find any info ill post. you happen to have a link or a name for them?

[Herpguy2004]

there are 5 at a petstore by my house. they are fairly problomatic. at that age it is in its final stages of life.. maybe last a year if ur lucky. they eat the substrate so u need to get like a forest type substrate with alota really roted out wood. they need to be kept at a good temp of about 80 or they wont digest there food and will die of starvation. give them hides as there prone to stress. id love to get one but there pretty expensiv here

[Linds]

I looked in to getting some a while back, but refrained for the reasons Herpguy mentioned. The Reptile Store up in Hamilton had them for a while, priced at $25 each. They told me that they didn't seem to last more than a few months in captivity however, and that was also confirmed when I came home researched them. It doesn't really seem like anyone has the captive care figured out on these neat little creatures. The longest I've been able to gather they seem to last in captivity is around 6 months, nor have they been produced in captivity :(

[Kyle Barker]

anyone got a latin?

im having a realyl hard tiem finding info. closest i came was called a "pillipede". but got little info on them.

at $25 ea and only lasting a few months no wonder tehy arnt produced in captivity yet. i would think it would take $100+ jsu tto try and breed them...


herpguy. so they are kept in teh same/similar manner of the wild ones here but warmer and prefer wood?

[Tim and Julie B]

One showed up at the pet store here reptiguy (Dave) bought it. Funny lil critter........the bug not Dave :D.

[dennis.epp]

I am just wondering are they legal to own or are they like many other bugs sold in canada but not really legal.
thanks

[anaconda]

Port Credit just got some in on the weekend.

[jaracas]

they look to me like some species of Globotherium, or Madagascan Pill Millipede.
i read an article about them a year or so ago where the breeder, after alot of trial and error, left the enclosure to go mouldy, you know the hair fungus stuff? then he had success with them.

i'll see if i can get an e-copy of the article