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my millipede ate my lizard; the danger of keeping Archispirostreptus gigas with herps
Posted On 10/16/2008 04:58:23 by Miketroll

for a couple years now ive been getting reports trickling in from herpers telling sad tails of losing chameleons and geckos to the Giant African Black millipede Archispirostreptus gigas. it seems to me that some dork somewhere came up with the brilliant idea of useing them to keep their lizard cages clean without doing any real research on them first, then went out and started telling others it works. to this day ive gotten 5 reports of lizards being caught and devoured by GABs whoda thunk an 8" detritivore could catch and kill a $300 chameleon when it desides it needs protine but it has happened and sadly prolly will again before the word gets around  

Tags: Archispirostrep Tus Gigas GAB GAM Millipede Lizard Herp Gecko Chameleon Warn



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From: Miketroll
10/18/2008 11:25:43

in 2 of the cases yes the herp was in a weakened state from shipping/importation in the others they were smaller lizards, one was found struggling in vain with the GAB coiled around it and succumbed to the injuries inflicted.


 RoachGirlRen wrote:
If a giant african millipede successfully ate a lizard, I'd say the lizard was already in poor health; I've encountered very few animals that are content to hang about while being slowly consumed alive by a detritivore. What's more, properly fed GABs rarely even consume other invertebrates, forget larger quarry. IMO, the kind of person who mixes such species is probably the kind of person who hasn't done a lick of research on the proper care of their animals, so it doesn't surprise me one bit that a) their lizard would be unhealthy enough to fall prey to a large, slow, ground-dwelling invertebrate, and b) that their A. gigas would be so poorly nourished that it resorted to consuming vertebrates.



From: BugsInCyberspace
10/18/2008 06:14:35
oh, but this just makes me smile.

I have two chameleons, but who doesn't love an underdog!


From: RoachGirlRen
10/17/2008 15:15:55

If a giant african millipede successfully ate a lizard, I'd say the lizard was already in poor health; I've encountered very few animals that are content to hang about while being slowly consumed alive by a detritivore. What's more, properly fed GABs rarely even consume other invertebrates, forget larger quarry. IMO, the kind of person who mixes such species is probably the kind of person who hasn't done a lick of research on the proper care of their animals, so it doesn't surprise me one bit that a) their lizard would be unhealthy enough to fall prey to a large, slow, ground-dwelling invertebrate, and b) that their A. gigas would be so poorly nourished that it resorted to consuming vertebrates.

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