West African giant millipedes described recently, entering the trade with pink-footed Cameroonian stock and a name younger than most of the collections that will hold it.
The keeping is the giant millipede constant: very deep substrate rich in decaying hardwood, abundant leaf litter, calcium, stable moisture, and a docile, long-lived animal whose husbandry is mostly gardening.
The market inherits the African millipede problem in full: US import restrictions more than two decades old keep American supply thin and provenance-dependent, while European keepers see the genus more freely. A recent description adds the usual layer, older listings for the same animals may sit under earlier labels or bare locality names. Wild adults arrive at unknown ages, breeding has not scaled, and the paperwork, not the biology, sets the price everywhere.
The line on each tile: lowest ask per day.
Rarity BETA Rarity is supply, and only supply: the tier is how many sellers have ever carried a species, and for a single seller, how many separate listings. Price is not part of it, and neither is how recently it appeared. Tiers are given to tarantula species only.