Exuvium Isopods

Size: adults may reach a length of 130 mm.
Activity: mostly night active.
Terrarium: the depth of the substrate should be at least a little deeper than the total length of an adult millipede; because when they molt they need to go deep in the substrate and disappear for about a week to molt their skin.
Substrate: check our premium substrate for millipedes.
Temperature: 20 – 27°C
Humidity: 65 – 75%; they are adaptable.
Diet: lichen, moss, fruits, veggies, greens, fish flakes, decaying leaves, rotting white wood, lime, and they love eating carrot sticks and dried fruit bites. They also enjoy the weekly insect jelly.
Difficulty: easy
Reproduction rate: prolific
Growth rate: normal
Lifespan: 2 – 3 years.
Handling: Millipedes may secrete a defense secretion when disturbed. If you don’t have medical records of allergic reaction, it is absolutely safe to let them crawl onto your hands.

Atopochetus caudulanus millipedes can start reproducing from the first 10 to 12 months.

That’s not a serious threat for the millipedes, if you avoid certain isopod species known to be aggressively prolific (such as Porcellionides pruinosus and Porcellio laevis). I’ve had Cubaris isopods in my millipedes containers for years and there has never been a problem.

Personally, I never keep cockroaches together with millipedes. Cockroaches eat anything and can eat millipede eggs. Also, both species produce a lot of frass. So they need a large enclosure.