Cameroon Pink Foot Millipede (Treptogonostreptus intricatus) For Sale

Adult Cameroon pink-foot millipedes, Treptogonostreptus intricatus, imported and field-collected in Cameroon, West Africa. The price depends on the count you choose. This is the pink-foot millipede, not a giant African millipede and not one of the Asian spirolbolids sold under leg-color names.

The animal

Treptogonostreptus intricatus is a large spirostreptid millipede from West Africa. The animals on this listing are adults, field-collected in Cameroon. The common name comes from the pink legs, which are the field mark people actually use: a dark body and distinctly pink feet. It is not Archispirostreptus gigas, the giant African millipede the pet trade usually means, and it is not a “pink dragon” (Desmoxytes), which is a smaller back-ridged millipede from Southeast Asia.

Millipedes of this kind live in the substrate as much as on it. They feed on decaying hardwood, leaf litter and the fungus that breaks those down, and they need calcium. A cage that is pretty and empty of rotten wood is a cage with nothing to eat. They are not handling animals. The defensive chemicals millipedes secrete will irritate eyes and mouths, and a drop from handling height will rupture one.

Care

• Substrate: deep, damp, and actually edible. Decaying hardwood, leaf litter, and some calcium source (cuttlebone or calcium carbonate) in the soil. A thin layer of coco fiber on a plastic bottom is not a millipede cage.
• Humidity: moist, not flooded. They desiccate in a dry box and they drown in a swamp. Keep the lower layers damp and give some ventilation.
• Temperature: room temperature to the upper 70s°F. No strong basking lamp.
• Food: the substrate is the diet. Supplement with leaf litter, rotten wood, and the occasional vegetable scrap. Do not rely on a slice of cucumber as the whole menu.
• Keeper: a display and a cleanup animal for someone who will keep the soil right. Not a pet you pick up.

Questions this listing answers

What is a Cameroon pink foot millipede?

Treptogonostreptus intricatus, a West African millipede with pink legs. The adults here were field-collected in Cameroon.

Is this the giant African millipede?

No. The giant African millipede usually means Archispirostreptus gigas. This listing is Treptogonostreptus intricatus.

Where did these millipedes come from?

They are imported adults, field-collected in Cameroon, West Africa.

What do pink foot millipedes eat?

Decaying hardwood, leaf litter, and the fungus on that material, plus calcium. The substrate is the food, not a decoration under a food bowl.

Can you handle a millipede?

You should not. They secrete defensive chemicals, and a fall can split the body. Watch them in the enclosure.

Ships within the United States, or local pickup in Arvada, Colorado.