Philippine giant millipedes: substantial, dark-bodied island animals from a fauna that reaches the trade only in occasional pulses.
The keeping is the giant millipede constant: deep substrate rich in decaying hardwood, generous leaf litter, calcium, stable warmth and moisture, and a docile, long-lived animal whose husbandry is mostly maintaining the ground it lives in.
Philippine export moves irregularly, identification arrives at the shipping-manifest level, and wild-collected adults come with unknown years already spent, which matters for animals this long-lived. Captive breeding has never scaled. The genus trades as the archipelago's entry in the giant millipede shelf, available when shipments land and absent otherwise, with the photographs carrying whatever identification the listing has.