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I remember reading about the fuzzy fungus people were seeing on the first several segments of their millipedes. I had never seen it before and didn't expect to, but then two of the millis were almost running, looked like something was bothering them. I saw that fungus! It was on their front legs, maybe the first 4 or 5 segments, don't know for sure. It was growing on their antennae also, especially toward the ends. Spikey looking, kind of white colored stuff. I have some stuff for athletes foot which has a general anti-fungal, Undecylenic Acid, in it. If that fungus was going to kill the millis, I thought I might as well try the anti-fungal. I put one drop on the segments right behind the head at the base of the legs on each millipede, that was about a week ago. They didn't like it of course and spent some time cleaning the area, as they were cleaning it was a good thing because I could see they were spreading it. It looked like they were using some of their own fluid to make it more wet in the area. This was about a week ago and they are all healthy again, there is no sign of the fungus and are eating just fine. If it happens again, I will take a before and after pic because I know there will be skepticism about it. There is some alcohol in it but it evaporates pretty fast. Also, it didn't kill the mites either. So if you think that stuff is going to kill your millis, might as well use this or something like it, maybe less strength/potent. It worked! It smells strong btw. I forgot to add that this is a millipede that had the fungus, as you can see, it's gone now, can't see anything like it there anyway.
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