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Published: 2009-08-31 22:57:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1674; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 15
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A picture I took the other day of my pet African Giant Millipede (Archispirostreptus Gigas), Leslie, eating dogfood out of my hand. He's such a sweetie >w<. He's about 20cm long at the moment, and could grow another 10cm or so more than that.And I know he has mites. Apparently pretty much every archispirostreptus gigas in the world seems to have mites. They dont do him any harm, or me, and I wont be removing them until he has them in copious amounts, since it'd be a pretty fruitless endeavour. I like to think he has a co-habitation thing going with them. Like me and my fleas
And before anyone calls him an insect, he's not, he's a myriapod. I hate it when people call them insects ¬¬.
Flash ^____^
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Photo, Leslie (c) me
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Aww, lucky! Would you happen to know of a breeder for these? It's illegal to import the giant African millipedes now.
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although i am a little scared of these wiggly little creatures, they are very cute ^^
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they look harmless but they look like they tickle ur hand
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I'd have a heart attack if I saw this in my house.
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Sweet! I had two, myself.. first Nero, and when she died, my love surprised me with another. Since I recieved her as a St. Valentine's Day gift, I named her Freya, but sadly, she too has since passed on. Leslie looks just as friendly as my leggy ladies.. Nero didn't have mites but Freya had a few -- they are harmless, beneficial actually, but I did remove some of them because they were a bit annoying.
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These guys look like their really interesting and simple to keep? Their so cool!
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Oh man, I saw these guys at the pet store they were only like 20 bucks I think. I really was considering getting one too.
That's a perfect picture, his '
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That's new, dare I ask how you obtained Leslie?
Actually better question, why are you feeding him dogfood? ¬¬
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Because he aspires to be like Dante
It's to keep his protein up, though now I'm giving him bonemeal I may not have to give him it as often.
I bought him over the interwebs :3.
Mum's still aghast that I've managed to keep my room clean, which was the condition for getting him.
He needs to meet Auntie Charl at some point :3.
Ah miss yew D:
I shall have to call you tomorrow, if that's okay. I'm coming home about 1pm due to the amazingness of free periods, and I can squeal all about my new baby boy then
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m-m-m-e-e-t Auntie Charl 
....... Squee
Seriously I miss u 2 my scaly gator
And Perfect, cause I got somone coming down tomorrow at 2pm so he can check if our junk will fit into the moving van. 
I wanna hug..
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Oh, dear God. This is a really original pet xD But it's cute... in a picture
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He is >W<. And awesome! I contemplated purchasing a snake at one point, but screeches of 'it'll escape and eat your gerbil and get eaten by the dog!' from my mum dissuaded me somewhat. I'm not allowed anything even remotely carnivorous till I've moved out of the house. But I want to work with invertebrates when i'm older anyway, so Leslie really is the perfect pet :3.
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I think it's darling <3 i find those little things adorible in a weird way <3
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I share that same opinion
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He is, and thank you
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ur welcome =3
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That's one big arthropod. oO I fear all arthropods... And when they're big, it doesn't help. Which is why I find it strange that I have such a liking for cartoon roaches.
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But arthropods are so cute >w<
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Not to me, unless they've been cartoony-fied. oO;
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I always have fleas.
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I think the reason people might call them insects because of the exoskeleton. Bypassing the whole more than six legs thing which is kind of important.
At the very least they are invertebrates
He seems oddly adorable.
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This is true, and yeah. I'd still prefer it if people taught themselves to know the difference. It's not exactly hard.
And why thank you, I must say I find him adorable too >w<.
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Well well, Flasheh's got the first bug Z can find cute and non-repulsive. |3 Might certianly help out my etnophobia (but not that I expect it to be fully gone. |P)! ^^
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That's because he's adorable >w<.
And I would certainly hope so, since if the trio dream comes true you'll be living in a house with more than just one myriapod in it
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He's the most adorable ever!!! >w<
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He's huge Oo...Awesome!
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Thanks 
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Welcy
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I prefer invertebrate
And he is. They're very docile.
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Ah.
Cool, cool. Wonder what other kind of tame invertebrates there are out there.
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Not sure. Pretty much any millipede. I'd assume molluscs to be pretty tame also, along with perhaps other slow moving herbivorous invertebrates, like stick insects.
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Molluscs are invertebrates?.. Dang, you know alot about insects/bugs/the like.
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Wow that's huge oO;; And he really eats dog food right out of your hand? Awesome 8D
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They aren't the world's largest millipede for nothing 
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Mm true :3 lulz wow X3 I didn't think he'd eat out of your hand that fast .3. Then again he's not a llama or something X3
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When I saw the preview I first thought he was a snake. 
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He's great :3. African Giant Millipedes are slow moving and docile, so he isnt vicious and isnt very likely to escape
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HOLY CRAP that's a big millipede!
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...The perfect pet! 8D Well, almost anyways. How long is his life span?
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7-10 years, but I got him this size so I reckon he's already a year, perhaps getting on for two years old.
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