how to care for the milli babies....

[Yve]

i've noticed the milli babies crawling all over the rotten food....i'm worried at this point that they might drown in the mushy rotten cucumber soup that sits at the bottom of the dish and if misting the tank will drown them. I've also noticed a few that have dried out on the side of the dish.....don't know why that happened because it is a moist environment. Also, i have a fruit fly infestation in the tank and i was thinking of putting sticky tape on the roof of the tank....think that'll do it or is there a better way to get rid of them.....i'm hoping they aren't a threat to the tiny milis!
i haven't been able to find detailed information on baby millis..so i hope you can help me out.....one more thing....i put cotton balls in the dish to absorb some of the fluids but there's still a lot of liquid in there......i'm like right now!

[FrankQC]

Hello.

I don't know about the dried millis around the water dish, but if you're worried about baby millis drowning in the dish, you should put less water in it, don't forget that millis can get their water from vegetables too, so water is not that critical because they have other ways to get water.

I don't think fruit flies are a problem to baby millis.. aren't fruit flies eating fruits? lol

For the infestation problem, dry out the substrate. Or change it (you'll loose babies if you do that). You might have resistant millis as african giant black ones, millipedes are sometimes doing better in dry environment than humid ones, my 8 AGBs are currently on dry peat moss, because I had a good mites infestation, they were breeding too much! So I washed everyone and kept up to 10 good mites on each millis. I hope that they won't come back in number or I'll have to kill all the good mites, even if I don't want too (good mites cleans millipedes' sensual bodies)

You should remove the rotten food, even if millis sometimes prefer that, it is a breeding ground for fruit flies. Just keep fresh vegetables/fruits.

You have cucumber soup in your tank? err.. isn't it smelling?



Frank

[Yve]

its a bit smelly if you put your nose in the tank but I thought that rotten food is what was best for them, maybe i'm putting too much food in there. I did not put water in the dish its just moisture from the food that has turned into soup. today i noticed a lot more babies in the rotten food as well, so i won't be removing the rotten stuff at all at this point. thanks for the info....psst....i know the fruit flies won't EAT the millis!!duh!!
Yve

[FrankQC]

If it is smelly you should do more ventilation. I put a PVC screen on the lid, it is 6" per 8", and it removes all the bad smelly odors


Frank