The Pros & Cons of Collecting Isopods in the Wild
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I was talking to a co-worker about how checking on my cultures gives me the same thrill as flipping rocks over as a kid did…she looked at me like I was from outer space 😂…each to their own I guess!
🤣👍 I know EXACTLY the feeling you are describing though!
BANGERANG, RUFIO! 😂 NEVER GROW UP!
I collected some isopods from my garden once, I had even found one that was entirely white. They’re super cool little animals.
I started my culture of Armadillidium vulgare from a mix of backyard and nearby forest specimens, and I found their first offspring about 3 months later. Finding them myself was fast and convenient. I decided to go with wild-caught because I didn't want to spend money on my first isopods, for a few reasons. They could die in shipping or soon after I get them, I could have to get rid of them if I stop being able to keep them, and I was a complete newcomer and could completely mess up the care. Armadillidium isopods are also my favorites anyway, because I think their round shape is the most pleasing. If I decide to buy isopods in the future, I might get some kind of Porcellio, to have the experience of caring for isopods with somewhat different needs than what I already have.
This is exactly what I did recently, as I just started keeping isopods
Happened to me twice, first oreder never arrived and the 2nd and 3rd shipping they all were dead, so basically I spent almost 100 bucks on isopods and didn’t get not one
I did that today 😂🎉 roly poly yay!
I used to keep all sorts of critters, including isopods, when I was a child, but I didn't keep them for long, just studied them for a while and then let them go. Years ago I wondered if it was possible to breed bigger isopods from the ones I saw out in my yard and kept a tiny colony in a plastic tub on my desk. Didn't know a thing about husbandry then--this was back when a Google search for "isopod care" might pull up instructions from a scientific catalog, if that. A few months ago I thought back and kind of missed having little creatures to watch, so I dug out my plastic critter keeper and went out into my yard and found a bunch of A. nasatums to keep. This time I looked up substrate, humidity and so forth, and then found out about springtails, and got a lovely little bioactive terrarium started. Last month I bought some A. vulgare T+ albinos and a mixture of P. laevis marbled morphs. I'm saving up for some Magic Potions and maybe some H. brevicornus (now that I know huge isopods are a matter of species and not something I can breed for 🤣). This was a total slippery slope and I'm here for it.
In my part on AZ, I've gotten Armadillidium vulgare and Power Blues in my yard... I collected them 50 years ago but of course never really knew how to take care of them so they wouldn't last long. I lived in rural cattle country and they were everywhere... now I'm retired and moved back to where I grew up and started collecting them again a couple years ago...
A great time to get back to isopods!
That sounds lovely
Start a compost heap and for sure you'll have an isopod colony. I always worried I'd hurt a few while digging mine out. But a half melon shell left outside is sure to attract a good few.
True...compost heaps are isopod heaven!
We picked up a pillbug at the park the other day and are planning to go back and find some more to start a lil colony! Appreciate your videos, which are getting me up to speed on proper care :)
None in our backyard, though, but have been enjoying flipping the rocks!
I am sure you will find some soon! Fall is typically a good time to find them, especially after a rain.
i love this video! i'm a beginner invertebrate keeper and wanted to start with the most simple creature so i collected 3 species from my backyard! i got oniscus asellus, armadillidium vulgare, and p. scaber, and they're all doing great a few months later thanks to your care videos!
my favourite colonies started in my garden! A porcellio type with red calico markings, and huge shiny armadilidium types with yellow dot markings. :) it's amazing to think of how many more markings are out there!
Yes, I have collected isopods in the wild. My regular colored porcellio scabers are all the descendents of wild isopods that I took inside. And it worked great. So good that after a while I let most of them go again because it was just absolutely impossible to keep them all. See, I was new to isopods and did not know that you could start a colony with just a few animals, so I took in probably about 100 or more, and you can imagine about how many new ones that led to. I still have descendents of these ones now though, and they are doing great.
This was a good video. Thanks for the tips. I remember growing up in the 80s these were everywhere in the playground and at stores with landscaped parking lots. It would rain and they'd crawl all over the sidewalk and walls you couldn't even walk. I haven't seen anything like that in decades. Tampa Bay area btw. I miss playing with rolly pollys. I now found out those I used to play with were A vulgare. So my husband and I went out to our yard hoping to find some. We have springtails out there and other bugs and oak trees and moist soils. Should be perfect right? Nothing. Maybe we have too many ants.
BTW, I found out you have a lovely talking yellow budgie. Budgies are my favorite animals. Been a budgie breeder for a very long time. I currently have a violet opaline male named Minion that has a 225 word vocabulary and quotes movies like Jurassic Park, Pirates and Monsters Inc to name a few. I have a play list of him talking or search my site for Minion The Talking Budgie. I think you'll like it. I taught him to use a mic and he even made up the phrase "Kiss the mic."
I hope you are able to locate some A. Vulgare soon. I looking forward to seeing your budgie video!
I'm an invertebrate keeper. I still plan on keeping my local species but I just picked up my first isopod colony. I got a dwarf species intentionally because of the critters I keep. I just watched you and clints videos about isopods together. That was great. You got a new subscriber out of me.
Delighted to welcome you here! Which local species are you most interested in keeping?
@@Aquarimax your mum
She’s not available.
I recently collected some Armadillidium vulgare for a friend who breeds and attempts different morph, he cant get vulgare in his region in the uk, really enjoyed watching them and now collect for myself
This is my first time collecting Isopods after getting back into NY so this was a fantastic help
Well, I love this content. I used to have a terrarium with a bunch of these guys in it, when I was a teenager! I have recently come back to my aquarium fixation, and I sense that There might be a vivarium coming up with local species. Thank you!
It’s only a matter of time!
Fun video, thank you. Like many, I started in the hobby with wild-caught - scabers to be specific - and even the most common of woodlouse is such a good learning experience that you can use to get to grips with the basics. I'm super glad you mentioned the Oniscus asellus, because they're hard to come by locally, but I managed to snatch around eight individuals from a colony and my god, they spent six months with really nothing going on at all, and just as I was going to give up suddenly I had juveniles all over the place. They were originally caught as practise for the mardi gras, but now the colony is too strong to release and I have a soft spot for them!
Those Oniscus asellus do tend to grow on you. An underrated species!
@@Aquarimax Beautiful animals, very shy, but I do love their little behavioural trait of "I'm not gonna budge". Lots of isopods scatter, O. asellus hold their ground.
I wanted to dip my toes into the isopod and started off with some wild caught ones from my backyard. For me this was the perfect way to see if I like caring for isopods enough to buy some captive bred ones! My wild caught ones are doing GREAT, my tips would be to look out for the iridovirus in ispods, as that is 100% fatal and easily able to be spotted (isopods infected turn blue). Another tip, is to collect bark, leafs, etc… BUT to disinfect them with heat first to kill of anything nasty :) I recently bought my first few captive bred isopods and now I have both wild caught & captive colonies thriving
@@WeirdCr3ature I am glad it is working out for you ! Great points!
My sister and I used to collect them when we were little and keep them as pets in little jars with rocks, soil and plants (we didn't know they were called terrariums). We didn't even know they were isopods and just called them "rolley bugs" because of how they would roll into a ball when threatened.
When I was a kid I called them roly polys too.
That was very interesting! I was wondering about the isopods and earthworms in my compost bin for my upcoming bioactive setup
Thanks for all the great isopod content!… I just started my first isopod colony a week ago. I got about 25-30 Armadillidium Vulgare from a few different spots around my property in Long Island. Most are a purplish/grey color but some are light brown. I’m excited to see how they develop.
Isopods are awesome! The wild ones just have more fun. 🤩
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I'm kind of lucky, as I live in Spain, so you know, whenever I go to the countryside I can maybe find some of the giant porcellio species
True! Spain is especially blessed with some fantastic Porcellio diversity!
I'm in Spain too and I'm quite new to keeping isopods so I'm really interested to see what species I'm going to find - so far, Porcellio ornatus Yellow Dot but who knows what else? :)
Y’all r lucky ducks here at Illinois I GOTS SOME WITTLE GREY ONES but they’re still cute
I remember seeing a bunch of bright orange and blue isopods in the wild when I was a kid, all hanging out on a tree stump in a park. I didn't get to catch any then, there wasn't a lot of information on proper care for isopods back in the day.
Thank you for this valuable information.
A couple months ago I was working with my compost when I noticed how incredibly many isopods there are living in it. I happened to have just picked up a Rubbermaid terrarium from a thrift store so I put some compost in it along with the inhabitants and started watching videos to learn how to keep them happy.
I'm feeding them a prepared product and there are lots of little guys. Everything seems fine but I want to add springtails. And more substrate.
They also make good video subjects.
There are fairly large isopods with the coloration of orange and black at the edge and has white spots on its back in my yard. I started with three of them and eventually became 10-15 after 4-5 months and then I released it in my bonsai trees pots. It was fun watching them crawling around.
They sound beautiful! Which part of the world are you in?
@@Aquarimax South East Asia from Myanmar. Here there are abundant of wild animals, insects and trees. You can see rare animals like Tigers, red panda, birds and so on. Sadly, I don't live in there anymore for various reasons.
I got really into the idea of isopods earlier this year. Watched lots of videos, bought Mcmonigles book, went to get some small tubs at IKEA and started preparing with old wood and soil from the garden. I even gave myself a few weeks to think about it so it wouldnt be a "thing" that i got bored off too quickly. Now i have four small colonies in my bathroom of all places (my roomates didnt feel comfortable with them in the rest of the house). Oniscus asellus and Porcellio scaber have common names where i live, and the latter colony even hade some cool mottled colourmorph on a few. Then some Porcellio spinicornis and what might be varius Armadillidium species but most likely is vulgare. Im missing some springtales tho, i think that might get rid of the last few gnats ive gotten (everything in there was taken from outside, i even saw a beetle in one of the bins once). Last time i did a big "check up" i noticed the P. scabers had lil babies but im not sure if they mated before or after i caught them. They all seem to do good, but i guess it comes down to how they manaage the winter.
Also, all of the bins got half an eggshell in em, and they love using it as a toilett. Everytime i check theres a proper lil pile of poop in em ^^'
Also my plan is, and will continue to be, to keep isopods by them self and not as a part of an enclosure to bigger animals.
Scabers breed fast and often so they're really fun, and often make a lot of diverse looking offspring. Crush your eggshells up, though - they nibble from the edges, so make more edges for them. Especially if that's your only source of calcium. If you put the eggshells in boiling water, it helps peel off the membrane on the inside, which will get smelly if left on the shell. It's not necessary to remove it, but if you don't want stinky tubs it's worth the effort.
Great video Rus. Yes, I have collected from the wild. Great learning experience
I collected a bunch of them two years ago, thinking all of them had died, I thought perhaps I should instead buy some, however, in moving some soil from one vivarium to another, I found two survivors, they have gotten two more friends already, and I plan to add more as soon as the weather gets a bit warmer.
Hey can you do a video about taking wood and leaves from local outdoors? And what you do to sterilize it ect.
Thanks! Your videos have been humongously helpful through and through. From my spring tails, to my isos, to my flies and so on.
Never collected them, but I use to play with them as a kid. I doubt there are any now since my family has the yard sprayed for pests.
i just collected my first isopods a few days ago, as i have some coming in the mail, but got impatient and couldn't help but catch some wilds for separate colonies :) i live in NW Oregon, so i was surprised at how difficult of a time i had finding them in my yard! it's been quite hot and dry, but i was able to find a handful of Armadillidium vulgare under some stones. i decided to venture into a local nature park and found 6 or so isopods under some decomposing wood, a mixture of Armadillidium vulgare and Porcellio scaber. now i have to prepare new bins for the ones i am getting in the mail (powder oranges and chocolate zebras), because i used them for wild types. haha! worth it though. it's so rewarding. hoping to be able to collect even more once it's rainy season again :) thank you for your informative videos!!!
I have an amazing colony of Powder Blue Isopods that I started with wild Isopods, their population is growing way too fast! I can look at it for hours, they're very interesting and always active!
I just collected some this evening for my first isopod terrarium! It was actually seeing them as I have been working in the garden that inspired me to look into keeping them as pets. I figure it's best for me to start out with free ones and really get to know their care before maybe getting some of the fancier varieties.
I have a really good habitat for them in my back garden! I catch them every now and then and they've always done pretty well for me. I'd love to buy a few fancier ones eventually though!
I've experienced what you mention about wild adults not adapting so well. Have lost a few A. vulgare. However, they have babies *everywhere* - so hopefully they'll thrive.
As for Dave the P. scaber, she was fine the last time I checked and some of her progeny might have to find a new home!
Great video I love the isopods I have that have descended from my wild caught guys- they are by far my most prolific 🥰
I live in a forested area of Cape Town and I find A.vulgare in the leaf litter outside my kitchen window, underneath the avocado tree. Usually in winter though
Is winter more moist in Cape Town?
I heard free isopods and I had maid my mind up I'm gonna catch me some woodlice
Go for it!
I did it for all of my tanks some have taken off easily and some not so much I think my toad ate them faster than they could hide and now there’s a population of like 2😂
@@Pokelemon3434 toads really do go after them!
So cool! I expected them to show in Europe first! Congratulations!!
Pokemon gonna catch them...
Yes, they are currently with my Red Sided Garter babies.
The only isopods I´ve ever seen "in the wild" here in Germany are porcelio scaber in nice blue- grey. They are other isopods in Germany like Armadillidium vulgaris, but I´ve never seen them.
Great advice on the pros and cons - I'll make sure I isolate any I catch and avoid bringing substrate back. I guess I'm fortunate as I'm in southern Spain - already have a small number of Porcellio ornatus Yellow Dot that I found 5 minutes from home. I'm going to give them their privacy, monitor the food and conditions and... fingers crossed!
That is a pretty prolific species, I’ll bet they do well for you!
I used to catch isopods in my backyard when I lived in Virginia Beach. Now living in Illinois and you've got me wondering if I'd see completely different species in my backyard here. Maybe when the temperatures get above freezing I'll check it out.
Certainly worth looking!
I collected my roly polies (armadillidium vulgare) from a potted Queen palm tree my mom brought into her house, back then, we used to live in West Oakland, CA and that tree was brought indoors and we lived in a loft. There were about 80 or something of them from the start, and overtime they've spiked and dropped in numbers, now a few years later, they're now 10 colonies each one having hundreds of them OMG😂
I just started a culture of powder oranges. I have four large terrariums, 15 gal, Two 20 gal and a 30 gallon. The oldest has garden rollies and they are still doing great after 3-4 years. They seem to love raw sweet potato. I'm going to make a culture out of the orange rollies and use them to stock the other terrariums.
Excellent Video Rus thx for covering this
I caught some outside and the colony grew!!!
I just collected some babies (about 6 or so) in our (organic) front yard this afternoon, they were in a small weed/mulch pile that I had neglected to clean up. I also collected a tiny millipede from the same pile. They all got placed in the new terrarium I created in a 2 gallon jar for my jumping spider (who adopted me when he showed up in my car last fall).
Great video like always
This is excellent. I agree wholeheartedly and lean toward the pros.
Right on! We would have exactly zero species in the hobby if we didn’t collect some from the wild 👍🏼
Me: casually watches this vid to get isopods outside bc I’m inpatient to get my duckies aquariummax: they can have pesticides me: oh well good thing my landlord hasn’t sprayed
I started with wild one. Got a bunch of them for my daughter for school's work, and finally kept them in a box. It's only after viewing your videos that I realized I got not one, but two species in my box. I ended up with separating them and discovered lots of babies. Now they are in separate environnement and I'm waiting babies to grow up. I've only got 2 A. Vulgare so I hope they will grow healty to see if they will expand again. P. Scaber seems to be okay, they are more specimens. Still winter here, so I have to wait a bit more to go for hunting outside and see which kind of species I can find.
Even if your 2 A. vulgare,don’t breed yet, you should soon be able to collect a few more and get your colony going.
I have two enclosures currently, one porcellio laevis giant orange and the other wild caught - common shiny oniscus asellus and common rough porcellio scaber. Was very surprised at the behavioural differences. My orange are fond of burrowing whereas the wild ones are climbers. So fascinating to watch.
Ok, let's talk about the shirt!!!.....where!?!?!? I need that, sir! Thanks for the constant supply of great information as well. I'm keeping A. gestroi and they're fabulous!
Here is a direct link to my shirts:
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I've got some in my worm bin helping out with compost. They came in on wood mushrooms I collected.. :)
Great part of the compost team!
Hi from Ontario. I currently collecred 40 armadillidium vulgare from my front garden. It is a safe spot thats not sprayed with pesticides.
I pove watching my isopods explore . Seeig they finish there food is very pleasing aswell thanks for this amazing video
It is very fun to watch them eat, i completely agree!
Ive considered checking with local FWS and seeing if there are any restrictions for collecting in Kentucky. I find it fascinating to cultivate local flora, I think Isopods would be a neat way to cultivate local fauna.
While
Most of the isopods you would encounter there would be non-natives, but you may have some native aquatic or even cave-dwelling species.
I just collected the same species today haha your a help and what I thought same as feeders from the wild
Oh good!
Isopods caught my interest only a short while ago and I've tried to learn as much as possible about how to properly keep them since then. I've been watching your videos a lot during the past few weeks and I find them very helpful. I live in Sweden, very close to a forest, so naturally, I now have a colony of wild caught oniscus asellus that I enjoy very much! I'm hoping to collect some other type of isopods too eventually.
It would be really cool if you could share some of your knowledge on keeping oniscus asellus and maybe show your colony too! I'd love to see it! Thanks for your awesome videos :)
I have been planning on getting a few wild isopods for a while now and this is just what I needed 😌
I caught some Philoscia muscorum the other month and they're delightfully active, I'm hoping to see offspring eventually but they're my first wild caught colony!
From what I understand, that species is a bit trickier breed than many others, I have not kept it...I wish you good luck breeding them!
@@Aquarimax To echo this, I've heard they never do well in captivity for some reason. I've been spotting a few really bright orange individuals locally and I really have to tell myself not to grab them.
@@Aquarimax I had no idea, hopefully I'll have some success! I'll definitely need to look into dietary needs and see what else could help promote breeding as well.
Awesome video!! Exactly the info I needed. Off to collect some later 😁
Happy collecting!
Sadly, because I constantly move around I’m not able to have my own pet isopods but what I like to do is go around parks and try to find some and take some good pictures of them
That is a great pastime as well!
I am starting with wild type to see how I like keeping them. If they have babies I will move the babies to a fresh setup.
I collected some a little over a month ago and put them in quarantine in a small container, the day I rehouse them I found two young isopods dead and after looking through the substrate of the quarantine enclosure I found two parasitic nematodes, thin and white in coloration
Sorry to hear some died. What you saw may well have been enchytraeid worms (or potworma). How large were they?
Yes I have woodlice as pets
Great information 👍
Awesome video rus I have both wild caught isopods as well isopods collection from orders
I made some springtail traps and 2 of the 3 were stolen by rats. I got some from the third trap but I’m glad I bought some. I also added a few slaters/woodlice from the garden to my terrarium. Accidentally I also got a worm, some tiny millipedes and some caterpillars that developed onto moths. The moths I let go.
Hitchhikers are definitely a possibility!did the worm reproduce?
@@Aquarimax dunno. It’s been approx 2 months. I did see the worm a couple of weeks ago, so it’s still happily alive. My little slaters like to come out at night and I often have a cup of tea watching them. The springtails are doing their thing happily too. I’ve never had a closed terrarium before and it’s quite fascinating. I’ve really only got various species of moss and a liverwort in there as plants as I’m not good with plants as such. I’m pretty sure I’ve got some casings? Poo? Off something. I’m sure it’ll all be recycled whatever it is.
Haha if by collecting isopods you mean picking up “potato bugs” as a kid then yes 😂 but this spring I’m going to pick some up for my accidental worm terrarium I made while collecting moss! I keep upgrading his digs and it’s great fun, his name is Herrmann the Worm.
I've just gotten back into keeping isopods. I kept local isopods maybe 10 years ago for a short time. If I find any unusual color variations I'm intending on trying to select for them.
I decided to catch local isopods because I have fond memories of watching them as a child when weeding my mom's garden. Is it unusual to have many species (at least 7) in an area less than an acre?
I'm in a southern Michigan suburb. I have access to a large yard, so lots of area for a backyard safari and multiple isopod species. To the best of my ability to identify, I now have tubs with Armadillidium vulgare, Trachelipus rathkii, Pocellio spinicornis, and Onsicus asellus. I'm trying to start a colony of Platyarthrus hoffmannse in a moss terrarium with tiny terrestrial snails, those look to be Vallonia pulchella.
There are also Philoscia muscorum outside, but they seem like an escape risk. There is a species that looks like Ligidium elrodii. I'm leaving them alone because those would be the one native species.
I live in lake elsinore California and i keep isopods
Just started collecting some from around my home and with in the past couple weeks. Soon I'll have to sit and try to sort then into species colonies instead of the catch all enclosure they are currently in. Gonna give be since eye strain trying to differentiate species though.
Maybe wear some magnifying glasses?
I have a Jar of various different wild Isopod Species. There's some Sowbugs, Pillbugs (Idk the exact Species). The end goal for me is to just have a jar of interbred Isopods.
I tried to get a wild caught colony going from a. vulgare in my yard, but after about a month all but a few had died off and I decided it wasn’t worth repeating the experiment again just yet.
I have several cultures that are wild-caught in origin.
I got about a dozen armidillios from my back yard most are medium size brownish tan but about four are huge and solid black, I have hundreds of babies now, hopefully some are the huge dark ones. And I also found a small colony of about 8 powder blues living in my basement. Can’t believe how lucky I was.
how long did it take for them to increase in population I collected a similar amount a week or so ago
@@cobaltnightmare5920 less than two weeks I believe I saw babies.
Hi Russ, I have not seen your channel in awhile. I have not been on as much.
I have caught isopods outside. My grandkids caught a lot but they got the dirt from outside. I was checking them one day and found some what looked like long white thread curled up. Then they started moving. I looked them up and I think they were horse hair worms.
Thank you.
They might have been enchytraeid worms (potworms) as well.
@@Aquarimax Thank you Russ for the information.
do you have any experience with Androniscus dentiger. i found a few under my paving slabs and put them in my mini terrarium with some porcellio scaber and oniscus asellus as well as a few stray slugs,mites,a ground centipede and spiders
I haven’t worked with that species, I don’t think they are established in my area.
I kill the rolly polls in my garden, they eat the seedlings, ate my bean seadling, and recently cucumber seedlings.
They will do that, they are technically classified as plant pests.
Wow good info! I have been growing my wild isods for about 2 years now, and i was considering adding the babies to my new bioactive pacman habitat ,i love the fancy ones to buy … but im afraid the frog will eat them lol
I think it very likely they your frog would eat any isopod that isn’t tiny and/or very secretive
Is it safe to cohab wild isopods same species as captive isopods like armadillidium vulgare
Where did you get the T-shirt?! I love it. ❤
Jabberwork on Etsy 👍
Thanks for showing your oniscus ocellus so i could identify mine... Are they a morph of the wild type or its own species?
The ones I showed are wild types👍🏽
Well, now it's time to go outside, touch some grass, and collect funny gray earth-shrimps
i collected some isopods for the first time, some did die off due to stress of moving but some seems to be doing well
Lmao my mom was literally shocked that I spent $1010 on white tigers and rubber duckies but she’ll never understand
i recently collected some wood with isopods, they are in their temporary box right now but i did notice some oribatid mites coming out ater a few days, are they in any way harmful for a future terrarium? i don't know if i should pick out the pods and put the mites back from where i got them or if i can just leave them be
Oribatid mites aren’t particularly problematic in isopod enclosures, as long as they don’t reach insane numbers.
Thanks for video, just collected some we figured out to be Armadillidium vulgare in our woods yesterday. I know I have seen huge ones around our yard in Michigan that are almost an inch long - do you know what species those could be? Could not locate any yesterday but I wonder if perhaps that species goes deeper in the ground to hibernate/wait out the winter.
Porcellio laevis can get pretty big, could be that species 👍
Collected some wild caught Armadillidium after 3 failed attempts at ordering isopods😂🤦🏾♂️first order never arrived due to “insufficient address “ somehow, next two orders all of the isos were DOA, basically spent in all $80-$90 and ended up with not a single isopod 😕so I did my research heard it was safe and went to this wooden platform in the woods that I knew homed allot of isos, luckily I ran into that breeding ground while herping a while back
Can I catch isopods from outside and put them with my gecko
Possible, but you could risk introducing pests, heavy metals, or pesticides. It would be best to catch some and introduce their offspring, if you don’t see any pests in the culture
The only species I find outdoors are Nagurus nanus... I can't find any other species :/ (and another Venezillo type but it's unidentified)
I live in Southeast Asia.
I come from Indonesia
Is there species that isn't N. nanus & N. cristatus that can be found in Indonesia?
Great question! I know very little about the isopod fauna there in Indonesia, but I would like to know more!
@@Aquarimax Cool, a week ago I found a few orange Nagurus, but they died.. Also I recently got a dwarf white culture and they are doing great!
When I was younger I commonly mistook Surinam Cockroaches for Armadillidium vulgare 😂
I know the difference now, obviously, watching your videos. Love your videos!
Are there isopods in lapulapu
Probably, there are various species of isopods in the Philippines. I hope you find some!
Is it ok just to have a small vivarium of wild isopods for enjoying?
When I clean my lizards poop, I just add it to their little tank. I just enjoy their presence. I don’t intend to put them in a vivarium.
I had two collections of bought isopods in my lizard tank, but the ones wild caught I just wanted to give free lizard poop.
Absolutely! A display just for isopods can be very rewarding!
@@Aquarimax I wish I could buy more cultured isos, but the shipping price is always insane! Oh well, win some ya lose some!
OMG I love your green screen!
If they end up in my houseplants, they’re freeloaders, I didn’t do it on purpose.
*Death to pesticide!*
I do freak out about parasites and microbes when I see them. I feel this is just assumption, but do they transmit disease more than… say a mosquito?
Thanks for the video!
Good question…I am not aware of any diseases that terrestrial Isopods can transmit to humans, while mosquitoes can carry many.
Does anyone have real real info on Madagascan club tails? Cyclops oplurus, found only one page about them but very vague on captive care
I had some isopods die off and thought it may have been from fumes from when I cleaned and they were in that room (won't do that again).
Fast forward 2 weeks later and there are these tiny white threadlike worms that are in the soil in that container and got on the cork bark- and they were also in springtail soil culture.
I am worried because I wanted to put the isopods left in my enclosures, but I don't know if these worms killed the isopods or if the worms are beneficial nematodes. I don't want my ftogs to get contaminated with parasites.
I have seen a few videos where other people show these worms but no one has given a definitive answer. The ones I have seen kind of curl up, are the thickness of hair, and so far have only been about half an inch long to 3/4 inch long. They look white and will get more active as soon as water lands on them.
I bought my isopod cultures and the substrate (and everything else) from a store so was surprised to see these little worms. Nothing in the container was from 'out in the wild'.
Please help...because-Monsters!!!😆😳
I don't know if you got your answer, but as a vermicomposter, that sounds like you got pot worms. They were likely in the substrate or hiding on something you added. They love water and will have population explosions in acidic and wet conditions. They don't eat live bugs, but will assist with breaking down the dead stuff.
I have this weird thing where I find it hard to reconigze creatures as pets if I took them from outside. They have to be captive bred for me
Captive bred is very often the best policy anyway. With introduced isopods it is not the same as it would be for, say, a native reptile with a shrinking habitat though. 👍🏽
I found porcellio scaber calico in my garden. Have you found other morphs in the wild, and how often does that occur?
We were visiting my sis-in-law. My nephew likes woodlice, so she flipped 4 paving slabs for us. Under them was thick with 100s of P. scabers. Seemed to be mostly grey, but they were moving quite fast. I did manage to catch one calico. Guess there might have been more.
My A. vulgare wild-caught are more varied.
I have a question that no one seems to mention with isopods, its about the cork bark do we need to sterilize it? boil it? and bake? it in the oven 250°F for an hour? I'm curious, because I just bought some cork bark from Zoo Med and I'm kind of nervous to put it in the cage, I hear all types of things I just want to confirm it your channel has alot of info on isopods 👍🏼 i luv the videos if any one can help with my question that would be greatly appreciated