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#1471298 Cherrykins View Profile	Giant centipede? I read somewhere {I can’t remember where, it was a long time ago!} that people put centipedes in with thier lizards to clean the tank. It doesn’t seem safe to me, because of the different requirments, but I wanted to verify.
10/08/07  09:56am
#1484178 JackAsp View Profile	Message To: Cherrykins   In reference to Message Id: 1471298  Giant centipede? Millipedes. Not centipedes. Isopods (aka woodlice, sowbugs, pillbugs, rolly-pollies, potato bugs, etc) are another popular choice for that purpose. There’s problems, though. It only works in lush, well-planted terraria, but the millipedes will also eat many plant types, killing the terrarium flora.And it makes the cage LOOK cleaner, and actually does get rid of a lot of stuff, but there are a lot of other things like nematodes and pinworms that can build up to pretty serious levels in a setup that you’re counting on a few bugs to keep clean. Truth is, they don’t really do anything that uneaten feeder crickets don’t.
10/20/07  07:31am

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