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I just stubbled across three giant pill millipedes at a reptile show in Hamburg PA, and since I have never seen anyone with them for sale I decided to go for it and buy all three even though I have heard that no one has really had good luck with keeping them. If any one here has had any experience with them, or can give me any information that would be awsome. The guy I bought them from said that he had heard they will eat crushed green peas mixed with fish flake food. Sounds a little sketchy to me, but i will try alittle of it. I'm also going to put some old/rotting wood, decaying leaves, lichen, moss, and might even try some of the artificial mulberry diet for silkworms. Thanks and wish me luck!-Josh Topp

Didnt you dad run that table with the big container of Emperor Scorpions?

I was told the same thing, about the food. That seems like what people are having luck feeding them. The only problem is they still die. If you get yours to live 6 months you are lucky, a year and you are very lucky. The general idea is they eat a type of lichen/mold/something, that we aren't giving it. Or maybe something , a micro organism in their gut dies without this unknown food item, and it ends up slowly starving to death.

Too bad, that are very interesting animals. Whenever I see one, I want to buy it. I end up passing them by.

Good luck with yours. Who knows, you might beat the odds!

They eat mold. the mold is hard to reproduce because it's found on specific plants at the forest floor. you best bet is to house them humid and warm, in a pile of leaves with some clean brown paper towel at the bottom and even some dirt from below the surface. it has to do with the molds that are available. if you end up with them dead, we'll pay for you to send them to us. we have one that has done well being neglected in an arachnovarium that has nothing but dead plants, some fungus and bark. the other ten did die rather fast; 2 months. not sure why but these are hard to feed!!!

go on arachnoboards.com there is a guy on there that raises millapedes and pill bugs he can help you