lovebugfarm Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 So I want to maximize the potential of my bins. Im thinking to myself what species tollerate cohabitation and which should be strictly solitary. For instance my orange heads would eat other insects so they will be solitary. Which would be ideal to mix with millipedes and not eat thier eggs. Would millipedes eat roach oothicas? What about centipedes or other preditory species like whipscorpions. Im sure spiders and scorpions are out of the question they are to vunerable after molting. I know pill bugs and some beetle speices are good. I would love to hear first hand expiernce and even just theories. I dont over crowd my colonys and they are in over sized bins typically with deep substrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 The centipedes might eat baby roaches (but maybe you want that?). And many kinds of roaches might nibble at the whipscorpions and stress them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovebugfarm Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Yeah centipedes spend alot of time barried and I figured he could pop up for a lil snack every so often. Thats very true about nibbleing roaches. My pepper roaches seem really slow moving though so they seemed like good canidates. Im really most curious about millipedes and if oothica from both will be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 i have my wide horns and peppereds together and they're doing fine. also have colossals and ivory heads together and no issues. they have similar growth parameters so it works out good for both species. they each have their preferred spots in their enclosures. all are reproducing well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovebugfarm Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Thanks those are some good suggestions. Also it would be easy to tell the nymphs apart to which would be important. Any thoughts on millipedes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 never kept them. once the nymphs get a little bigger you can tell who's who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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