I collected a bunch of wild P. scabers last year from the wild, both normal and calico looking ones. After a while some completely white individuals popped up, even the eyes are white. I isolated them and now have a big colony of what I found out to be P. scaber white out / snow. It is so much fun selecting and breeding your own lines, even though this morph already existed :)
Technically, since a mutation cannot appear in two separate populations in the exact same way twice, your completely white isopods are a completely new morph that you developed, just convergent to the white P. scaber morph already in the hobby. It's funny how genetics can be so different, yet produce similar results.
Just bought a culture of six lavas, so I’m looking up tips for them. Thanks so much for all your videos. They’ve helped me with so much with care for all the isopods I own
I picked up a small culture of Scaber Lava at an expo last year, they are easily my least shy species, they don't hide when I open the culture, and moments after dropping fish food in they are already swarming it so def protein hungry.
Just ordered a bundle of Lavas, Kois, and even the elusive Porcellio haasi! and a lottery mix from another seller! I can't wait to see them get going. Thank you so much for your tips and videos, they have been so great
So nice to see someone else that knows how to say scaber 😆I was starting to feel left out lol - Great video mate, these guy are without a doubt my go to species for devouring my insects that have passed on. I keep a large colony of them just for that very purpose.
Found a wild calico scaber outside under a plant pot in school! Super excited to try breeding her and maybe get some calico babies. (Calico's aren't common where I live, at all.) Update: Released her soon after comment was made as I couldn't find her a mate, I placed her right next to her plant pot and she stood for a second.. and then ran under the pot to her friends and family.
I started keeping isopods as pets recently just by collecting them from the wild, and I find it interesting that both my A. vivarum and P. scaber wild type cultures are grey with yellows stripes/spots, rather then just plain grey.
Dunno if you'll see this since this vid is a year old. But thank you for your vids! You're my number one go to for isopod information! Hoping to get some P. Scaber - Lava next week, if it's not too hot here. They will be my first Scabers.
I love his willingness to just say 'do your research'! So many pet channels will just spoon feed you everything and don't encourage you to go out and do your own research, which you definitely should to get a well-rounded and accurate education of animal care. Getting all your information from one source is dangerous and could be misleading, so do your research!
Just picked up some calicos, Dalmatians, and koi for a bioactive 10 gal based off your recommendations for humidity happy isopods. Thanks for the info @Aquarimax Pets
I caught a few P. scabers last year when i found a few orange ones in a sheepspasture. Theyre somewhere in between calico and lava as far as the morphs go. Unfortunately it seems the few adults i got died after a lil while (probably got a bit dehydrated befor i found a scheduel that worked), but i got plenty of babies atm. They got some cabbage and crushed eggshell last week and its pretty fun keeping an eye at em while they feed.
@@Aquarimax They're still a bit small but they do seem lighter. Had some normalcoloured ones in there too so might be mixed. Read somewhere that some morphs only "show up" when theyre adults or if it was gender-scewed, so i think ill have to wait a bit before i can judge the result.
now i know why I always failed to culture them #lol 😂. from your videos i'll avoid made a mistakes again so i can tried again to make a culture of blue powder isopod,, orange isopod and dwarf white isopod too..
I picked up 5/6 porcellio scabers from outside in august(Saw some red isopods and was interested in isolating it - didn't know what it was at first.) and now I have easily around 20+ individuals not including the mancae. I use them as snacks for my dart frogs and crested gecko now lol. I love those orange koi scabers. I may have an addiction to red and orange isopods. 😬
@@Aquarimax I have a couple individuals. They look somewhat like the calicos, so I am assuming they're female. I'm the one who asked you to identify them on FB couple days ago and about the fruit fly cultures.
I was thinking, I would love to see some of your videos focusing on the bioactive setups you have for your herps with isopods (and beetles and whatnot). Very curious about how you've set things up and what it looks like at the moment, and how the isopods are doing in there. AND we would get to see your scaly critters too while you share you experience of the setup with us! That would be very exciting.
@@Aquarimax Okay! I'm glad. I'll put a copy of my comment on your related Patreon post so you have trace of it over there and you won't have to scroll through youtube to find it.
i have a small group in an ecosphere. i usually find a lot of cool morphs like calico, orange and lava in my garden and especially in my compost heap, many of which descended to some color morphs i introduced in my garden
Hi, thank you so much for sharing your experience! I just started in the hobby and I wonder about boxes. I've some boxes transparent and other not (just the cover is transparent). Do you think there is any issue with non-transparent boxes for some species ? I've a small amount of Porcellio Scaber, and I want to get a new, bigger box and I rather want to start right.
Great question. As long as the plastic is suitably smooth to prevent climbing, they should do just fine. I used to keep mine in a dark cupboard when I was first starting out, and they were fine.
Possibly…they do prefer it a little damper than mealworms in general…but you might find the sweet spot. I use Porcellionides pruinosus with my Leopard Gecko, along with superworm beetles.
Im very Young and I love isopod care. I have this common species I want to know what temperature and humidity levels should be maintained inside the enclosure.
I’m glad you enjoy isopods! These are adaptable in terms of temperature. If they are kept indoors, somewhere between 60-80 F, they should be fine, and occasionally a little or higher or lower is even possible. As far as humidity goes, they appreciate a gradient, so keep one side damp and the other side drier, and they will find the spot they want…no need to measure specifics if a gradient is available.
In a book about soil ecology I found some stuff on isopod biology: - Isopods prefarably eat alder (Alnus) and ash (Fraxinus) leaves ower oak (Quercus) and beech (Fagus) leaves. - Isopods have a special requirements for calcium and copper. Calcium is needed for their shells and copper is part of their oxygen carrying pigment (hemocyanin). From a leaves isopods diggest 79-94% calcium and almoust all of the copper. They alsou eat their own excreta from which they use copper, which is often eliminated from a body with the end products of metabolism. (I guess fishfood gives enought copper.)
I have calico isopods, but they are different colors ranging from dark brown, orange and white! All I know they are not picky and very easy to care for, and mine are breeding. I probably will get the light colored ones separated to carry on their genetics. Talk about variety!
@@Aquarimax Yes... All I know they do very well and not too picky about their conditions. They are so cute! Sometimes I see them carrying round a piece of food in their mouth walking around and I find that amusing.
interesting story. a while back i set up a native terrarium with some various isopods including scaber, some millipedes, some small centipedes, a tiny snail, and some earthworms. all with moss, live plants and wood. i bought some assorted porcellio scaber of ebay and put them in. a while later i was feeling a bit drained and changed it up multiple times. in the end i released the inhabitants back into my garden including both the ebay and the native scaber. weeks later i saw a lot of orange and calico scabers appearing in my garden. still see the oranges quite often until recently as i think the cold kiled them off so i will have to wait until the weather warms up too see if i can find some more idk if this classes as releasing an invasive animal as they were already native i do not encourage releasing pet isopods even if they are native but captive bred i was rather inexperienced with the hobby and i hope to properly keep some soon just thought i would share
Just too add. I scrapped the original one first ( a plant propagation tray) , then a small aquarium, then a tub. ( who knows why tf I scrapped the original as it was really good) I was not a very good isopod dad 😢😢 and sometimes forgot to feed them. This caused a population decline. The bell peppers I fed molded easily and caused a mold outbreak. The hungry isopods ate the millipedes when they molted and the centipedes were going strong. By then I was burnt out and released my critters back into their ecosystem. I also had some local vulgare too To this day I still feel bad and I am now a proud and responsible owner of many fish and arachnids and I am determined to properly research and care for these cuties:). Long story short I learnt my lesson and will always properly do my research before getting them. Rip isopods ( especially dairy louse who had some cow like markings and I personally kept). I still feel guilty to this day
This was akin to a person's first experience with say a goldfish in a bowl and they were my first invertebrate pet. Keeping my eyes out for some Dalmatian isopods to have a fresh start to my isopod keeping
So, "Lottery Mix" will eventually revert to wild type over time and many generations? If so, isolating like kind upon arrival can secure the color variants after say 3 generations?
Well, reversion depends quite a bit on the genetic makeup of the initial population and the numbers. You will definitely get some wild types, but I have had lotto mix for years, and there is still plenty of variety. You could definitely the parents strains from it in a few generations, although hidden hets could complicate things for a while.
I may soon buy some Porcellio scaber or collect them from the garden 🤔. I think I'll be more likely to collect a few from the garden as we have so many of these 😅 and I don't want my two roosters to eat them up☹️
I just picked up some orange Kois was going to put them with my bearded dragon but now I'm not super sure if it would be good to have I know my guy would eat them because he is quite the hunter but I wonder if I should hold off on putting them in there
@@TRAT0R I probably wouldn’t put all in there. You could set up a separate culture, and once they start breeding like crazy, you could periodically seed the enclosure with them.
Hello! I wanted to say, that i ordered a few species around 5 or something, and a few morphs around 7 (including the lottery ticket one and powder mix) so, i wanted to know if all my enclosures have to be different? I ordered a few porcellio scaber, including snow koi, porcellioides pruinosus powder mix, venezillo parvus Dalmatian, porcellio laevis dairy cow, porcellio scaber lottery ticket, porcellio scaber orange dalmatian, armadillidium nasatum (whiteout), armadillidium Perracae, armadillidium vulgare “magic potion” japanease line, keep in mind i am a begginer, only owning a very common species i collected near my house, so what i did with every enclosure was put forest floor substrate, mixed some tiny pieces of bark and wood and charcoal, calcium, put quite a bit of spaghnum moss on the side of each, might remove some because the common isopods i have have been dying in there, but mabye i just put too much water, put fairly large pieces of wood (not dead yet) for hides but they still nibble on the top outer layer of the wood, i also put some bark so they can nibble on because i put them in their new enclosure 2 days ago, i ordered my isopods from smugbug, she says they will arrive today, supposed to come yesterday but something happened to the driver, but thats better because my leaf litter will be coming today and some extra bark that i need to add in. I watch your videos and theres a lot of wood, so I’ll put some more wood and bark, my enclosures arent that big but they are about 17-18 inches long and 12 inches wide. I would love some info from you! :)
(Forgot to add) i wanted to know, if i ordered multiple morphs of each species, can i mix 2 of them together? Or 1 extra with lottery ticket? Like for example i ordered porcellio scaber “lottery ticket” i ordered 50, since i bought containers that are too big for 25 or they will be hard to find, if i ordered like, an extra albino or whiteout morph of porcellio scaber, or any morph.. i was wondering if i can just add them in with the ones already mixed or not a good idea since the whiteouts havent been there?
And i didnt only order the extra whiteout scaber, like mabye the orange Dalmatian i can also add in the lottery mix? And normal white one (so if i can put white, white out, orange Dalmatian) added to the lottery mix, or just 1 of those since i ordered quite a lot.
I got myself wild porcellio scaber, but unlike your isopds mine are very shy, very scared of light and bodyheat or breathe emitted by observers. That said my isopods hide nearly all time under the bars and other objects i provided them. other than that they seem to do good, they have eaten a lot in the first weeks but then stopped eating so much, which is when my springtails from the wild started also increasing in population. SO i am just curios, how or when will my isopods become less shy? XD
I’ve selectively bred my own orange scabers wild caught here in Santa Barbara California. Is there is any value in a separately bred Orange version from what is available currently in the hobby?
@@AquarimaxUnfortunately I do not see many for sale near me & they only ones I've found so far are a thin brown color morph that look like roaches... I know, the prejudice against roaches is unjustified, but not what I want to put into my tiny 5 gallon terrarium...
@@AquarimaxThanks, I did not know they are good for a humid terrarium. I've barely ever heard of them. Do you have a video about Isopoda sp. Tarragona?
They are not toxic…though I don’t recommend eating them. If you are allergic to substrate you might have an issue, but isopods themselves are pretty safe.
Scusami, un sito che vende isopodi nella descrizione dei porcellio scaber dice che non amano ambienti umidi, tu in molti video dici che vanno bene per terrari umidi, qualcuno può aiutarmi a capire meglio quale sarebbe il loro clima ideale?
Veramente I Porcellio scaber possono adattarsi a diversi ambienti, secondo me è meglio che abbiano l’opportunità di scegliere…io cerco sempre di offrire una zona umida e una zona più arida. Devo dire pure che, per decenni, Porcellio scaber è stato fra gli isopodi più usato con le rane in terrari umidi con molto successo.
Dairy cows have been called dalmatians, as well as pandas, in some countries; but usually dairy cows refer to P. laevis while dalmatians (used not synonymously) refer to P. scaber. It's usually best to use the scientific name rather than the colour type to talk about an isopod to avoid any confusion. Some colour types are found across multiple species. I know this isn't very widespread custom in the US but it is moreso in Europe.
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Ahh you know I love P. scaber as a pet isopod ❤️Thanks for the great info and nice footage of your lot 😃
i started a whole culture of these things from a wild single specimen i threw in a bin without thinking. Fascinating!
Awesome! A wild type?
I have a colony all from one sow and her mate. I caught her on my balcony. She's gone now but she would be a great-grand mum at least.
I collected a bunch of wild P. scabers last year from the wild, both normal and calico looking ones. After a while some completely white individuals popped up, even the eyes are white. I isolated them and now have a big colony of what I found out to be P. scaber white out / snow. It is so much fun selecting and breeding your own lines, even though this morph already existed :)
I totally get that…I have created a couple of morphs that already Sp existed, but doing it myself has been a fun project.
Technically, since a mutation cannot appear in two separate populations in the exact same way twice, your completely white isopods are a completely new morph that you developed, just convergent to the white P. scaber morph already in the hobby. It's funny how genetics can be so different, yet produce similar results.
Just bought a culture of six lavas, so I’m looking up tips for them. Thanks so much for all your videos. They’ve helped me with so much with care for all the isopods I own
I picked up a small culture of Scaber Lava at an expo last year, they are easily my least shy species, they don't hide when I open the culture, and moments after dropping fish food in they are already swarming it so def protein hungry.
Lavas are so beautiful, and they do love their protein!
@@Aquarimax I'm getting mixed Porcellio Scaber first time owner.
i love these little guys
and they deserve it!
Just ordered a bundle of Lavas, Kois, and even the elusive Porcellio haasi! and a lottery mix from another seller! I can't wait to see them get going. Thank you so much for your tips and videos, they have been so great
Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝
I can't wait to release my line of scabers, they are so cool looking. Almost there 😎
Looking forward to seeing them!
How are they doing now?
So nice to see someone else that knows how to say scaber 😆I was starting to feel left out lol - Great video mate, these guy are without a doubt my go to species for devouring my insects that have passed on. I keep a large colony of them just for that very purpose.
Found a wild calico scaber outside under a plant pot in school! Super excited to try breeding her and maybe get some calico babies. (Calico's aren't common where I live, at all.)
Update: Released her soon after comment was made as I couldn't find her a mate, I placed her right next to her plant pot and she stood for a second.. and then ran under the pot to her friends and family.
you sure she wasn't t. rathkii?
Very interesting this field is so cool lol
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
My isopod wishlist seems to expand every week but I can probably only reasonably get 4 or 5 within the next few years. So hard to choose!
I believe this is one of the most abundant for morphs alongside Armadillidium vulgare.
I would agree with that :)
i found a wild red calico p. scaber when i was gardening. i now own a small colony of wild isopods
Thanks for doing my suggested species! The orange koi is beautiful.
Your welcome! The orange koi really are something, aren’t they? 😊👍
Oh and I didn't catch it in the video - is there a temperature range they need? I'm in southern Canada
@@arcaninetyfour2239 not particularly…anywhere within the normal temperature range in houses will do just fine.
I got some today!! "Lemonade" morph which I have never heard of before.
I started keeping isopods as pets recently just by collecting them from the wild, and I find it interesting that both my A. vivarum and P. scaber wild type cultures are grey with yellows stripes/spots, rather then just plain grey.
Have you made a dedicated video on how to isolate isopod morphs? If not, you totally should!
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Dunno if you'll see this since this vid is a year old. But thank you for your vids! You're my number one go to for isopod information!
Hoping to get some P. Scaber - Lava next week, if it's not too hot here. They will be my first Scabers.
A great one to start with!! 👍🏼
I love his willingness to just say 'do your research'! So many pet channels will just spoon feed you everything and don't encourage you to go out and do your own research, which you definitely should to get a well-rounded and accurate education of animal care. Getting all your information from one source is dangerous and could be misleading, so do your research!
Oh wonderful...just what I needed. More P. scabers. I see a bunch of babies all over the place (insert sarcasm). I had no idea how prolific these are.
Just picked up some calicos, Dalmatians, and koi for a bioactive 10 gal based off your recommendations for humidity happy isopods. Thanks for the info @Aquarimax Pets
I caught a few P. scabers last year when i found a few orange ones in a sheepspasture. Theyre somewhere in between calico and lava as far as the morphs go. Unfortunately it seems the few adults i got died after a lil while (probably got a bit dehydrated befor i found a scheduel that worked), but i got plenty of babies atm. They got some cabbage and crushed eggshell last week and its pretty fun keeping an eye at em while they feed.
Nice finds! Are the offspring colored like the adults?
@@Aquarimax They're still a bit small but they do seem lighter. Had some normalcoloured ones in there too so might be mixed. Read somewhere that some morphs only "show up" when theyre adults or if it was gender-scewed, so i think ill have to wait a bit before i can judge the result.
@@bjornk14 true, would like to hear what you discover!
now i know why I always failed to culture them #lol 😂. from your videos i'll avoid made a mistakes again so i can tried again to make a culture of blue powder isopod,, orange isopod and dwarf white isopod too..
Another great video 👍
I picked up 5/6 porcellio scabers from outside in august(Saw some red isopods and was interested in isolating it - didn't know what it was at first.) and now I have easily around 20+ individuals not including the mancae. I use them as snacks for my dart frogs and crested gecko now lol.
I love those orange koi scabers. I may have an addiction to red and orange isopods. 😬
The red and orange are hard to beat...do you have any of the reds still?
@@Aquarimax I have a couple individuals. They look somewhat like the calicos, so I am assuming they're female.
I'm the one who asked you to identify them on FB couple days ago and about the fruit fly cultures.
I was thinking, I would love to see some of your videos focusing on the bioactive setups you have for your herps with isopods (and beetles and whatnot). Very curious about how you've set things up and what it looks like at the moment, and how the isopods are doing in there. AND we would get to see your scaly critters too while you share you experience of the setup with us! That would be very exciting.
(I should have submitted this on Patreon instead maybe, oops.)
It is a great idea! It wouldn’t hurt to put this on Patreon as well, but no harm in putting it here!
@@Aquarimax Okay! I'm glad. I'll put a copy of my comment on your related Patreon post so you have trace of it over there and you won't have to scroll through youtube to find it.
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You mentioned a video about keeping different iso and arthos together but I couldn’t find any links.
Orange dalmatian is so beautiful, same with orange koi
i have a small group in an ecosphere. i usually find a lot of cool morphs like calico, orange and lava in my garden and especially in my compost heap, many of which descended to some color morphs i introduced in my garden
Thanks for your videos! You play a part in my fascination and love for isopods. What can I do to go deeper other than husbandry?
Hi, thank you so much for sharing your experience! I just started in the hobby and I wonder about boxes. I've some boxes transparent and other not (just the cover is transparent). Do you think there is any issue with non-transparent boxes for some species ? I've a small amount of Porcellio Scaber, and I want to get a new, bigger box and I rather want to start right.
Great question. As long as the plastic is suitably smooth to prevent climbing, they should do just fine. I used to keep mine in a dark cupboard when I was first starting out, and they were fine.
the scabers are awesome and the most common in my area. considering them for a bioactive leopard gecko tank. would they coexist with mealworm beetles
Possibly…they do prefer it a little damper than mealworms in general…but you might find the sweet spot. I use Porcellionides pruinosus with my Leopard Gecko, along with superworm beetles.
@@Aquarimax i already have a few moisture areas under the water bowl and some cork bark with some sphagnum moss so hopefully that will be enough
When I got my powder oranges I would find a mealworm or two each week in the bin for the first couple months lol
Im very Young and I love isopod care. I have this common species I want to know what temperature and humidity levels should be maintained inside the enclosure.
I’m glad you enjoy isopods! These are adaptable in terms of temperature. If they are kept indoors, somewhere between 60-80 F, they should be fine, and occasionally a little or higher or lower is even possible. As far as humidity goes, they appreciate a gradient, so keep one side damp and the other side drier, and they will find the spot they want…no need to measure specifics if a gradient is available.
Well i "keep" them in my Garden. In german its Kellerassel meaning Celar woodlouse.
Seeing them outside is a fun way to interact with them as well.
In a book about soil ecology I found some stuff on isopod biology:
- Isopods prefarably eat alder (Alnus) and ash (Fraxinus) leaves ower oak (Quercus) and beech (Fagus) leaves.
- Isopods have a special requirements for calcium and copper. Calcium is needed for their shells and copper is part of their oxygen carrying pigment (hemocyanin). From a leaves isopods diggest 79-94% calcium and almoust all of the copper. They alsou eat their own excreta from which they use copper, which is often eliminated from a body with the end products of metabolism. (I guess fishfood gives enought copper.)
When you got porcellio scaber lottery mix what isopods did you receive? I just bought some of my own.
I don’t quite remember, but it seemed like quite an assortment
I have calico isopods, but they are different colors ranging from dark brown, orange and white! All I know they are not picky and very easy to care for, and mine are breeding. I probably will get the light colored ones separated to carry on their genetics. Talk about variety!
Are yours Porcellio scaber too?
@@Aquarimax Yes... All I know they do very well and not too picky about their conditions. They are so cute! Sometimes I see them carrying round a piece of food in their mouth walking around and I find that amusing.
interesting story. a while back i set up a native terrarium with some various isopods including scaber, some millipedes, some small centipedes, a tiny snail, and some earthworms. all with moss, live plants and wood. i bought some assorted porcellio scaber of ebay and put them in. a while later i was feeling a bit drained and changed it up multiple times. in the end i released the inhabitants back into my garden including both the ebay and the native scaber. weeks later i saw a lot of orange and calico scabers appearing in my garden. still see the oranges quite often until recently as i think the cold kiled them off so i will have to wait until the weather warms up too see if i can find some more
idk if this classes as releasing an invasive animal as they were already native
i do not encourage releasing pet isopods even if they are native but captive bred
i was rather inexperienced with the hobby
and i hope to properly keep some soon
just thought i would share
Just too add. I scrapped the original one first ( a plant propagation tray) , then a small aquarium, then a tub. ( who knows why tf I scrapped the original as it was really good) I was not a very good isopod dad 😢😢 and sometimes forgot to feed them. This caused a population decline. The bell peppers I fed molded easily and caused a mold outbreak. The hungry isopods ate the millipedes when they molted and the centipedes were going strong. By then I was burnt out and released my critters back into their ecosystem. I also had some local vulgare too
To this day I still feel bad and I am now a proud and responsible owner of many fish and arachnids and I am determined to properly research and care for these cuties:). Long story short I learnt my lesson and will always properly do my research before getting them. Rip isopods ( especially dairy louse who had some cow like markings and I personally kept). I still feel guilty to this day
This was akin to a person's first experience with say a goldfish in a bowl and they were my first invertebrate pet. Keeping my eyes out for some Dalmatian isopods to have a fresh start to my isopod keeping
Don't be too hard on yourself. No use in feeling guilty anymore, as you have learned from your experience.
So, "Lottery Mix" will eventually revert to wild type over time and many generations? If so, isolating like kind upon arrival can secure the color variants after say 3 generations?
Well, reversion depends quite a bit on the genetic makeup of the initial population and the numbers. You will definitely get some wild types, but I have had lotto mix for years, and there is still plenty of variety. You could definitely the parents strains from it in a few generations, although hidden hets could complicate things for a while.
Random but honest question, would you ever consider keeping a giant isopod? Bathynomus giganteus? Just curious.
If I ever had a proper facility for it, I might…it would be interesting to see if I could produce some captive-bred individuals.
Do you know if the Dalmatian orange are suitable for a tortoise enclosure as a clean up crew ?
If it is a tortoise species that does well with some humidity, then I would say yes.
I may soon buy some Porcellio scaber or collect them from the garden 🤔. I think I'll be more likely to collect a few from the garden as we have so many of these 😅 and I don't want my two roosters to eat them up☹️
Sounds like a plan!
My ventriloquist dummy is watching this with me 📺👲🏼🧎🏼♂️
I just picked up some orange Kois was going to put them with my bearded dragon but now I'm not super sure if it would be good to have I know my guy would eat them because he is quite the hunter but I wonder if I should hold off on putting them in there
@@TRAT0R I probably wouldn’t put all in there. You could set up a separate culture, and once they start breeding like crazy, you could periodically seed the enclosure with them.
Hello! I wanted to say, that i ordered a few species around 5 or something, and a few morphs around 7 (including the lottery ticket one and powder mix) so, i wanted to know if all my enclosures have to be different? I ordered a few porcellio scaber, including snow koi, porcellioides pruinosus powder mix, venezillo parvus Dalmatian, porcellio laevis dairy cow, porcellio scaber lottery ticket, porcellio scaber orange dalmatian, armadillidium nasatum (whiteout), armadillidium Perracae, armadillidium vulgare “magic potion” japanease line, keep in mind i am a begginer, only owning a very common species i collected near my house, so what i did with every enclosure was put forest floor substrate, mixed some tiny pieces of bark and wood and charcoal, calcium, put quite a bit of spaghnum moss on the side of each, might remove some because the common isopods i have have been dying in there, but mabye i just put too much water, put fairly large pieces of wood (not dead yet) for hides but they still nibble on the top outer layer of the wood, i also put some bark so they can nibble on because i put them in their new enclosure 2 days ago, i ordered my isopods from smugbug, she says they will arrive today, supposed to come yesterday but something happened to the driver, but thats better because my leaf litter will be coming today and some extra bark that i need to add in. I watch your videos and theres a lot of wood, so I’ll put some more wood and bark, my enclosures arent that big but they are about 17-18 inches long and 12 inches wide. I would love some info from you! :)
(Forgot to add) i wanted to know, if i ordered multiple morphs of each species, can i mix 2 of them together? Or 1 extra with lottery ticket? Like for example i ordered porcellio scaber “lottery ticket” i ordered 50, since i bought containers that are too big for 25 or they will be hard to find, if i ordered like, an extra albino or whiteout morph of porcellio scaber, or any morph.. i was wondering if i can just add them in with the ones already mixed or not a good idea since the whiteouts havent been there?
And i didnt only order the extra whiteout scaber, like mabye the orange Dalmatian i can also add in the lottery mix? And normal white one (so if i can put white, white out, orange Dalmatian) added to the lottery mix, or just 1 of those since i ordered quite a lot.
You can mix a Porcellio scaber as far as care goes, but you may lose some distinctive traits…
I got myself wild porcellio scaber, but unlike your isopds mine are very shy, very scared of light and bodyheat or breathe emitted by observers.
That said my isopods hide nearly all time under the bars and other objects i provided them.
other than that they seem to do good, they have eaten a lot in the first weeks but then stopped eating so much, which is when my springtails from the wild started also increasing in population.
SO i am just curios, how or when will my isopods become less shy? XD
Hi could you do a care guide for Cubaris Pak Chong? There seems to be a lack of information regarding their care.
He doesn't keep many Cubaris, I'm not sure if he has any Pak Chong
Yes! I will plan on interviewing an expert on this species, as I don't currently keep them.
I don't, but I will be interviewing an expert on that species.
@@Aquarimax thank you for the reply! And thats awesome I look forward to that video!!
Can you do a species care guide on Homo sapiens sapiens?
LOL! My wife and I have raised 4 of that species…but Clint already has a great video addressing the topic! 🤣
Can you please do maculatum next :)
Coming soon!
@@Aquarimax yay! ❤️❤️
I’ve selectively bred my own orange scabers wild caught here in Santa Barbara California. Is there is any value in a separately bred Orange version from what is available currently in the hobby?
Very cool! How do they compare in appearance? Just as vividly orange? If so, yes!
@@Aquarimax yep just as vividly Orange
I would be interested in some for a new bloodline!
Is there an isopod for moist habitats (does not need a moisture gradient) & is larger than dwarf white, but smaller than P. scaber?
Yes! Florida Fast- Atlantoscia floridana
@@AquarimaxThanks
@@AquarimaxUnfortunately I do not see many for sale near me & they only ones I've found so far are a thin brown color morph that look like roaches... I know, the prejudice against roaches is unjustified, but not what I want to put into my tiny 5 gallon terrarium...
As far as I know, there are no morphs of A. floridana, only the wild type. What about Isopoda sp. Tarragona?
@@AquarimaxThanks, I did not know they are good for a humid terrarium. I've barely ever heard of them. Do you have a video about Isopoda sp. Tarragona?
Are the white ones albinos, or can they be bred with any other ones and have some white ones?
There are albino scabers, as well as at least a couple of leucistic scabers. As far as I know, they are all recessive.
@@Aquarimax Thanks for the info!
Do you have or sell lottery mix
Sure do!
Where
@@Jay_Kennedy13 www.Aquarimax.com
I know highly unlikely but any chance these things would kill a crested gecko , have to ask lol
Is porcilio scaber poisonous? or do you have illness? something like that
They are not toxic…though I don’t recommend eating them. If you are allergic to substrate you might have an issue, but isopods themselves are pretty safe.
Do porcelio scaber eat snail eggs?
Scusami, un sito che vende isopodi nella descrizione dei porcellio scaber dice che non amano ambienti umidi, tu in molti video dici che vanno bene per terrari umidi, qualcuno può aiutarmi a capire meglio quale sarebbe il loro clima ideale?
Veramente I Porcellio scaber possono adattarsi a diversi ambienti, secondo me è meglio che abbiano l’opportunità di scegliere…io cerco sempre di offrire una zona umida e una zona più arida. Devo dire pure che, per decenni, Porcellio scaber è stato fra gli isopodi più usato con le rane in terrari umidi con molto successo.
@@Aquarimax grazie mille per la delucidazione
@@StefGrank È stato un piacere!
Is there ever any issue with this isopods damaging plants in a vivarium?
Sometimes isopods will eat live plants, Armadillidium species can destroy them.
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You're fast, Frank!
is dairy cow and dalmatian the same isopod?
Dairy cows have been called dalmatians, as well as pandas, in some countries; but usually dairy cows refer to P. laevis while dalmatians (used not synonymously) refer to P. scaber. It's usually best to use the scientific name rather than the colour type to talk about an isopod to avoid any confusion. Some colour types are found across multiple species. I know this isn't very widespread custom in the US but it is moreso in Europe.
@@aloiis Thx for a comment
I am living in South Korea, and P. scaber dalmatian is not yet introduced to market here.
Great answer!
I agree with the response above. I hope you get to keep P. scaber Dalmatian at some point!
I've seen all these morphs in the wild I just collect some for free lol