Can I keep it?

Setup

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
22–29 °C
Humidity
70–80% (mist)
Min. enclosure
≥ 3× body length; ≥ 8 cm deep substrate
Substrate
Coco soil + rotten hardwood + oak leaf litter
14:00
Day

Drag the sun. Vietnam Giant Millipede is Nocturnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

Food

Diet

Staple food
Detritivore — leaf litter + fruit/veg + rotting wood
Supplements
Cuttlebone / crushed eggshell (calcium)

Daily life

Behaviour and handling

HandlingGentle & handleable; may exude defensive fluid
CommunalCommunal-friendly
MoltingMolts underground: never dig up

Health

Common health problems

Mites
Signsdamp stale substrate
Preventventilation + fresh substrate + isopod cleanup crew
Dehydration / bad molt
Signslow humidity
Preventkeep 70–80% + calcium

When to see a vet

Not veterinary advice.

The species

Identity

Adult size

True scale, against a 1.75 m person

1.75 m15–20 cm

Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet

1520100400 cm
15–20 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Order / Family
Spirostreptida / Spirostreptidae
Adult size
~15–20 cm
Activity
Nocturnal detritivore; burrower
Temperament
Docile, handleable

Reproduction

Reproduction
Lays eggs in substrate; slow-growing

Good to know

  • Wash hands after handling: the defensive fluid can stain skin.
  • Wash hands after handling — the defensive fluid can stain skin.
Burrowing

The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.

National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

Questions & sources

Back to the Atlas My keep

https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/spirostreptidae-sp

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What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: thermal rail and temperature audit, humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.