r/isopods

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freeze dried minnow snackies for the pods

I was curious about the eyes of my little buddy and here’s what i found , thought it was interesting to a newb like myself 🤓

Found on the sidewalk during a late-night bug lurk in Longmont, Colorado. Legit the biggest I’ve ever encountered. My boyfriend first thought it was a beetle!

I love them so much, I just hope they'll breed eventually 🥲 Any advice is welcome!!

Grizzly bear mama?

Urgh so I panicked a lot when I started keeping, including a pretty sad online order that I lost a couple of Pineapples the day theh turned up... Lots of panicking, lots of catastrophising and lots of worry and upset...

Here we are a few months on and I've found 1 adult and 2 lil bab Pineapples (forgot to photograph!), and my other worry was my Trilobites and they seem to be doing great and producing lil flat cuties!

No real advice or action, just wanted to celebrate babies (and share adorable pics) and let any newbies know, its ok (probably)!

(i’ve never done this before so i hope im doing it right) UK/ENGLAND ONLY!

will send 10 mixed ages of crystal pineapples via post in exchange for your offer

comment down below which isopods you’re offering, pics appreciated! i will reply or dm if interested :3

if you have any questions please let me know!

Is this slime mold? It wasn't there 12 hours ago. I noticed it when I took a work break to stare at the isopods and one of them was (maybe) munching on it. It's a bit more yellow than the photo shows. Bonus photo of one of my cute little weirdos as the one on the mold(?) fled my presence.

Ive recently purchased a few Ardentiella Pastels and they seem to be fighting, can anyone tell me if this is normal/safe for them? Thanks!

Opened my insect booster to gut load my feeders for my leopard gecko and saw all these tiny bugs that at first glance looked like springtails but don’t springtails need humidity and moisture to thrive? It’s bone dry in this small tub. So I’m not sure what these tiny bugs are?

I thought my dairy cows were goners and hadn't seen them in so long. 🥹🥰 hi babiesss

First death I hope I didn't fuck up the kit I did everything it told me too

Help!

When misting my rubber ducky bin I found the fly in the video crawling around before losing it. I’ve seen about 3 total, 2 before this video.

I have a lot of springtails, and recently found mancae (yay my first babies!!) should I be worried ?

I do keep hydei. flightless fruit flies for my jumping spider but this doesn’t look anything like them. Idk if that could be relevant.

Tysm in advance!

iirc it's about 10 gallons. the lid is ventilated. i used 7 bags of creature soil for the substrate, mixed with hardwood pellet mush, leaf litter, and calcium powder. also a bit of whatever substrate is in the "isopod kit" from petsmart, as that was their original enclosure.

they have leaf litter on top (mix of oak & cottonwood leaves, which is what they have access to outside).

this is a mixed species tank: i have powders, giant canyons (i think!) and vulgare, ALL wild caught except for most of the powders (i wanted some colour variety).

there is a moisture gradient and they have dry spagnum moss, live moss from josh's frogs, and multiple wood hides (purchased cork and some cottonwood & oak from outside that i froze, they're from my yard and we don't use pesticides!) + cholla wood. also there is springtails in here!

i feed them isopod food from petsmart and occasionally throw in a slice of veg (carrot is their favourite) or a freeze dried minnow.

Hey all! I’m relatively new to the hobby, and have had 3-4 adult isopods in my tank pass since I got them in early June, however I also have found many babies, and am just looking to get opinions on if people think it was probably just their time or if my husbandry could use some work.

My substrate mix is a few different reputable brands mixed together with magnolia leaves crushed, as well as a touch of limestone and crushed, baked eggshell. The youngins seem to enjoy burrowing in the leafier layer.

I mist lightly every other day, with a big mist once a week as the terrarium is a bit more ventilated than I’d like, and I try to keep the soil moist, leaving a dryer corner.

I looked into safe plants for them, all I’ve got is a fern that died, a plant I don’t currently remember the name of, and mosses.

There are multiple cork wood hides for them, and a few rocks I scrubbed with vinegar and rinses aggressively before introducing.

They get offered repashy bug food every once in a while, but as they’re new to this particular enclosure they don’t always find it or are interested.

The springtails thrive, when I move the sphagnum hydration spot they are doing great, and I have quite a few babies, but they aren’t super active. I have not found any dead babies, but I didn’t look super hard in the interest of not bothering them too much.

Is there any first time mistakes I’m obviously making? Or is it most likely that the adults I received from the seller were simply near their time?

Thanks for any advice!

I keep a bunch of zebra isopods in a bioactive 120gal terrarium for an adult corn snake. It's been going well for years. I started with like 20 from a local pet shop.

Lately, I've been putting in some isopod food/powder stuff. I didn't think they were breeding that much, but turns out it was all below the bark. I watered the plants the other day, and now I can see the full extent of the population. It's looks like more now than the pet store I got them from had lol.

I know that their population generally stabilizes to their food source, and I wouldn't be concerned if it weren't for the snake. They're all scared of him, and don't dare touch him. They'll nearly run in to him then do a 180 and run away. He doesn't seem to mind all that much, but lately I've seen him avoiding the spots where they aggrigate. I'm worried that it'll over stress him or influence his thermoregulation.

Thoughts? I'm gonna back down on food, but I'm worried that the snake will have problems in the meantime. Maybe he's fine though, idk.

The pods are starting to eat my live pothos plants when I don't give them other food, which is not my favorite. I jokingly call them dis-o-pods for disobedience when they do that (joking, ik they don't know better).

I'm totally up for giving some away, if it is too much. I'm near Boulder Colorado and can donate some. (Don't use that as a reson to tell me I have too many, lol). Although I'm very (personally) opposed to euthanizing these guys or whatnot.

Also, the pictures are just the pods who climbed to the surface. There are hundreds below the bark.

Thanks.