Thank you so much! These are some of my favorite millipedes, just in terms of how easy it is to care for them, how chill and how often theyre on the surface, and general demeanor. Highly recommend!

You are so welcome! Glad you are enjoying them!!

Oh, it's absolutely asanine what we have to pay for over here, but the laws here appear to be MUCH more brutal around importing arthropods and other invertebrates in general. I am glad you enjoyed this video, and hope you'll enjoy more - they cant all be a winner, so judge softly. 😂😂

YOU ARE SO WELCOME!

yeah theyre incredible!

Welcome!

If you own ONE, you can go slightly smaller but the reason is for molting purposes and you want them to be able to outstretch fully and have room to move in. But yeah, overall, huge tank needs

If referring to Giant Pill Millipedes (they look like enormous isopods but are in fact millipedes) theyre exclusively wild caught, but I will be taking a stab at breeding them in Q3!

🤣 I know, right? Tarantulas are QUITE a bit more expensive than most things, but then also alternatively Ive seen literal $6 Tarantula slings. So I don't use them as my baseline price. Also thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, prices over here are high because of our laws being insane to import arthropods 🤣

Thats an incredible question and I will be honest - I am not quite sure on size as I have seen multiple conflicting articles. That being said, when you purchase a breeding trio, theyre typically nearly full size and my understanding is sexual maturity is within the first year and I don't believe them to be fully grown in that time line. This is unfortunately anecdotal at best, and I am hoping as more of these are captively bred, those details will be more concrete.

@juicesarthropods thank you, I guess we will see lol.

@juicesarthropods I have received them! But they gave me 3 females... I Contacted them about the issue, and hopefully we can work something out, but if not then hopefully at least one has sperm retained.

The reason reptisoil isnt great is because its literally 90% peat moss, some carbon, and sand. And like $20 or sometimes more. Itd be cheaper to just BUY a brick of peat moss. But peat moss by itself has no caloric value to the millipede, so you could use reptisoil but youll need to add rotting woods and leaves to it (sanitized of course).

@@juicesarthropods Thank you so much for the info, I appreciate it !

You are so very welcome!

So, in order; Love the idea! Giant African millipedes CAN be captive bred and I will be selling them most likely by June, red flags to look for; horrible websites, don't promote captive bred or wild caught and keep it wishy washy. Rare species at weirdly low prices? Rare stuff noone else HAS. Green flags? In my opinion? Supports US Ark (think lobbyist group for reptile and invert breeders), promotes captive breeding, happens to know wtf theyre talking about. If they claim theyre captive bred, can like showcase the proof? Like I can PROVE I bred almost everything except the stuff thats in massive colonies. Importing isnt by the way inherently bad, there are LOADS of european breeders we can buy from and in fact Im working on my import license as we speak for that very thing! I will make a video I promise but...to ruin you one more time; every hermit crab you've ever seen in your life is also wild caught and the first person EVER to breed them captively? Did so in the last 5 years. Sorry! 😭

Oh to ethical breeders - ask ethical breeders and theyll know all the good ones. We dont gate keep it and support each other

​@@juicesarthropods thank you so much for all the amazing info!! Last question before I continue to thank you! When you say proof, what does that actually look like? Do you keep written records, or is it more "here all all the current babies, over there are my breeding pairs, and theres the terrarium i use for active breeding!" Either would be fine, just curious what the proof itself will look like. And yeah, fortunately I did know about hermit crabs before haha, and I'd actually be very very interested in ethical vs non ethical wild caught animals. Because from what I've seen (admittedly, not a whole lot) it's really hard to do it in a way that keeps the animals happy and healthy. Just off the top my head, I imagine catching stuff that's native is probably fine, but maybe for crossing state lines or countries or something you'd need a permit or something else? And actually, the bit about ordering from breeders from out of country was something I was curious about to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you can send something like a giant african millipede from a breeder in the UK to the USA. But wild catching them and THEN importing them would be illegal? But yeah. Thank you again for such a thoughtful response:) I really appreciate it! EDIT: looks like I might have mixed up importing, and wild catching! I think in my original comment I was asking about how to confirm they were bred and not wild caught. Then I think I made the exact same mistake while reading your comment. Oops! EDIT 2: Electric boogaloo: when you do get around to the ethical sourcing of pets vid, you should also mention how with some less common pets (giant african millipede, for a random example) can have older/out of date care info, and to be careful about what advice you take, or just be sure to gather as much information you can to compare and stuff. I've heard they need anywhere from their entire body length in depth, to 3x their body length in depth. Obviously they are big guys so that makes sense, but that was something that could have caught me if I wasn't paying too much attention. I've also read from some places that it's a 'great' idea to pair em with isopods and use coconut fiber in the substrate. So I'd just wanna make sure people know that information, while plentiful, may be conflicting and confusing, and that this may be the nature of owning a less traditional pet :)

@@ryanhilliker375 Do me a favor - KZfaq makes it impossible to like read questions and respond to them because when I try to scroll up it asks me to discard the message. Can you copy paste DM this on Instagram (@juicesarthropods) or my email Juicesarthropods@gmail.com and I will respond to it and the paste my response in here too. You asked some INCREDIBLE questions I want my subscribers to know, but I also want to break it down in a more digestible format than long drawn out run on sentence. 😂

​@@juicesarthropods can do! I'll shoot you an email. That's easiest for me :)

That depends entirely on whats IN the beetle soil

Yep! They will make elaborate tunnels or just dig down and molt then come back up

@@juicesarthropodsdo we need to aerate the soil from time to time?

If you mean like crops, no. Theyll aerate the soil themselves. Just dont pack the soil down too tight

Phidippus regius. Easy to care for, live 1.5-2 years, and are arguably the most user friendly for kids or their parents since 1. Theyre too big to lose 2. Their bite IF they bit (trust me, you'll know when they threat pose you) its no worse than a normal bee sting and 3. Setup for them is super easy and food is cheap.

I greatly appreciate it period where would you suggest a purchase of the housing? I heard tarantula cribs is good?

@@shanabanana1 You can definitely go with them, and I will be offering cages that I use here within the next two weeks as well. Once they arrive, Ill be posting them on my website. You can go to juicesarthropods.com and look under Arthro Pods for sizes and prices when they arrive!

So I actually don't know what turtle substrate consists of. Could you let me know whats inside?

@@juicesarthropodsall i know is that there are these small bugs that prevent the substrate from molding and there are little bits of small woods.

@@roblo0700 So the little bugs I imagine are springtails and thats fine, but the biggest piece is knowing what kind of wood and what kind of substrate. If its coco fiber/coco choir, don't use this. If the wood is any soft woods (pine, fir, cedar) dont use it. Stick to hardwoods only with a soil filled with plenty of edible leaves, rotting wood and good soil. If you go to www.juicesarthropods.com we have Royal Soil available - if cant buy yet, you can at least see the ingredients Id recommend.

😂😂 Yeah, but then how would I make a living if only $15? 😈😂