Actually isopods originated in water, precisely in the sea, where most species still live. From there they spread into freshwater and one daring species took to the land during the triassic period, becoming the ancestor to all terrestrial isopods.
I have isopods for my terrarium. I decided to get some jars of decaying leaves and water from my pond and I saw these guys! I didn't even know they existed! I'll be putting them into my planted tank soon. They do breed fast so I hope my non aggressive fish can keep the population in check!
They deserve to me most know in the hobby, those are very strong and peaceful creatures. In my country they thrive under ice during winter and I succesfully keep them in tropical tanks also. A bunch of dead leaves and wood at the bottom of the tank will make them happy
I agree!! Which country are you from? Good point about the leaves and the wood. They love that stuff. The smaller pods will hang out on any leaves you put in there and turn them to skeletons very quickly. Apparently leaves taste good, who knew 🤔
I m from Belgium and you? Always thought those animals were endemic from northern europe, I m curious to know where else they live and if there are genetic differences that can be exploited for breeding and hybridization. Yes they eat solid matters by chewing on them, they breakdown it easilier than shrimps does, they don't compete much with them from food
@@tigerbokken6922 I agree they don’t seem to really compete with shrimp at all! I’m in the U.S.. species like asellus aquaticus are endemic to the UK but there are several North American species and others around the world. Here’s a map of the global distribution of freshwater isopods: www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-distribution-of-freshwater-isopod-diversity-The-areas-are-marked-as-in-Tables_fig2_226706045 I’m definitely interested in hybridization and all that so let me know if you ever experiment :)
I've got these in my ponds here in the UK and our winter temperatures can go below freezing but today for instance it's warmer 28 December at 42f or 6c I moved some of these guys into my internal fish tank and they are doing really well, alongside very small fish with an average temperature of around 60 - 65f
I discovered these in one of my water butts and can siphon them out through the tap on the container, a few at a time. In my small aquarium they come out at night and are great at devouring any unintentional overfeed of fish food, or anything else that's otherwise left to rot. As I live near beaches I have put some interesting driftwood in my tank which has been in freshwater for a while, and they love to wander over it and feed off it. Great little guys!
New subbie! First time seeing your channel. You're very knowledgeable, and entertaining with a very smooth, natural delivery. Thanks for introducing me to aquatic isopods. I never knew of their existence.
Hey grumpy, (great name btw) I really appreciate the comment. Apologies for me taking forever to respond lol. I do my best to keep the yapping tolerable to listen to 🫡 hopefully I can keep it up in the next few weeks! Welcome to the #isopodagenda >:) You’re more than welcome. We love the aquapods over here :)
Happy to help shine a light on these guys. Appreciate you taking the time to watch! We're going to make sure these guys get better known over time hehe #theisopodagenda >:)
@@dellybird5394 Appreciate you all! For better or worse, this is very much a “make the content you want to see in the world” situation 😂 So I am glad you like the vibe we’re shooting for :)
I have an Asellus Aquaticus culture. This tiny little crustacean looks to be at least related to these isopods. They breed in the same way and look very similar. You don't need to buy them. Just find a body of water high in vegetative debris and run a fine net or bucket through the sludge at the bottom. You can pick them out of the crud in the bucket from there and culture them. You're likely to find some scuds, there, too, if you need them. Just be sure to pick out only what you want, so you don't accidentally end up with parasitic animals in your tanks as well.
This is what I am going to buy for my propagation tank for my newly established father fish tank. 👇 Gammarus shrimp ( gammarus pulex ) Water louse ( ascellus aquatics ) Daphnia ( daphnia pulex ) Freshwater copepods / Cyclops ( copepoda sp) Black mosquito larvae ( culex sp ) White mosquito larvae ( choboborus ) Lesser water boatmen ( corixa sp ) Bloodworm ( Chironomus sp) Tubifex worms ( tubifex tubifex ) Blackworm ( Lumbriculus variegatus ) May also include some other micro species Dependent on available of each species some species may be absent but will be substituted and will always include a good mix. This mix of species makes a great start to the base of a pond ecosystem both as cleaners aswell as a natural food source for the larger pond inhabitants I'm really starting to enjoy this aquarium game now lol😄 Came here for the water louse's.👍
I recently got some of these and added to a community aquarium. I’ll keep an eye and see how they do long term, but for now they quickly went and found cover. Re whether they could be food, I noticed that my African dwarf frog was good at catching the smaller ones. I think the interaction showed a balance between the frog being able to catch them but not so good that they’d get wiped out. I noticed its belly very full when it caught a couple of these.
@@pjd0707 Yeah I bet that frog enjoyed a great snack! They are good at finding cover so I hope they are able to not get wiped out. If you can identify a male and female you could always pull them out to start a culture separately. But definitely there is a balance where you can see how they fit into the food web and don’t get totally decimated lol. Definitely a lot of things enjoy eating them...
WOW the quality of this video is crazy good. can't say i've heard of isopods in freshwater tanks before! fascinating animals they are, certainly fantastic work with the editing, i was shocked to see this was your first video uploaded. can't say i've seen videos of this sort of topic with this style of editing before, but it's very welcome. keep it up!
@@tonyadams4726 yes! I list him and Garden of Eder on screen in the video. The coolest people are the ones that have these guys for some reason :) #theisopodagenda
Ayy! Welcome to the #isopodagenda >:) Hope you have a successful setup! Honestly I don't know too much about them! It'll be my second year with aquarium this upcoming fathers day. I will say I at least know a LITTLE bit about aquatic isopods now (finally). Glad you enjoyed the video
@@naturalaquariums76 I do sell them! Unfortunately I can't ship them internationally at this time. There's a lot of sellers of Asellus aquaticus in the UK if you ever make it over there! example listing : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255321256211. They have it nice over there.
There are plenty of unusual aquarium inhabitants out there, especially inverts in your average water body. Don't be afraid to try keeping aquatic insect larvae too.
@@inmytanks yay :) hope to make more videos of it when I find the time. I also in the meanwhile ordered 20 from ebay small ads (most popular small ads in germany) :]
@@readifgey It's already running for more than 2 years, and I've started with few animals and plants and introduced more step by step and extremely carefully. Feel free to check out my artistic video featuring it ^^
Wow, this is some great videography! I found this video from your Reddit post. I love your commentary and editing! The camera resolution is fantastic, too. Makes me jealous. :-)
Awesome, for years my garden pond was full of these guys. I would always use the pond water for my water changes and my Congo tetras would feast on these. You wouldn't see them out in the open but once I lifted up a piece of bog wood in the tank and there was a whole colony under there! Ponds gone few a few phases since then though and I haven't seen them for years.
That sounds amazing! it's so cool seeing people comment their stories with the pods in their pond. They really are everywhere! and some fish do seem to love eating them xD
@@etienneseitz3653 ahh you’re too kind :) Glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for the sub. I’ll try to keep some semi-decent content coming as soon as possible ^^;
I have an 8 gallon tank with some shrimp and one betta… the betta is really not caring about anything and swims around so I might give them a try they seem very helpful as my shrimp are picky and may not eat some food with the bladder snails cleaning it up.
Oooh that’s a good idea. I hadn’t considered them helping with picky shrimp but that definitely makes sense. They are not as picky in my experience. I don’t keep betta so you would know better than me on that one!
@@BricksAquatics really appreciate the comment and encouragement :)! Glad you liked the video. I don’t know if I deserve more subs yet 😂 but I’m sure if I make some decent videos people will come around :)! What I do know is deserve right now is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I went to make one and I had half the bread slice done and realize I was out of jelly. Don’t know what to do now with this other half now 😔
I received some of these guys from your ebay store recently, looking forward to them being cultured enough to start adding them to other tanks. I'll be putting them in with ember tetras, neon tetras, cherry barbs, and cory cats, and I don't believe they'll go after the adults.
9:21 "I swear I saw one act like a scorpion and try and scare off a fish once" Dude! That's fascinating! You probably know already, but that’s a territorial behavior in some larger terrestrial species. I wonder if it's a convergently evolved behavior or if their shared ancestors did that too.
I just recently learned that! I do think it's pretty crazy. I need to try and get them to do it again on camera. It was a larger male trying to scare off a peacock gudgeon. He actually did manage to get away. If it really is them doing the same behavior that's pretty amazing.
Are your aquatic isopods wild caught? I recently took a few swipes with a net through some local water weeds ( in MA, so I had to stomp a hole in the ice first ) put my catch in 4 five gallon bucksts, probably 2/3 full each.literally took less than ten minutes. I then seperated the isopods from the buckets by pouring small quantities into a white dish tub and pawed through with some latex gloves, sucking up any I saw with a turkey baster couple hours later I had well over 100 isopods in another bucket which were rinsed several times to remove most of the filth. The trick to getting them cleanly then is to swirl the water vigorously, allowing the remaining bits of debris and the isopods to collect in the middle. The isopods immediately move to the outer edge of the bucket and begin the unending trip around the circumference of the bucket, making it easy to suck them up from clear water, avoiding any of the questionable bits remaining after the rinse cycle.
Hey! Thank you for the comment. These ones are tank raised and not wild caught but you definitely gave me some technique ideas for future collecting adventures >:)
They’re the first thing I add to a new tank now. There’s something satisfying about watching the initial deployment of the pod army crawling around a fresh aquarium 😆
I didn't do research or anything but this type of isopod in the video is a temprate North American species. I find them here in water bodies. Interestingly I find them more during freezing weather, flocking to baited fish traps.
There hast to an aquatic isopod in your country, water is were isopods originated. The family of isopods related to the one in the video, live mostly in ponds and other stagnant water bodies also maybe in slowly flowing creeks.
@@exxuus6260 I relate to that feeling! They are pretty new. That’s why we’re here starting #theisopodagenda 😈 to raise awareness about the shockingly high cute factor of these guys.
Now just imagine swimming in a pool full of thousands of them…. You’re treading water and suddenly they’re crawling all over your skin and in your hair while singing Norah Jones in perfect harmo-- whoops thought this was my dream diary for a second
I have these guys living in a small jar ecosphere en with an amano shrimp. It’s coming to be about a year but I hardly see them so I might get a few more jars soon to add to my fish tanks and other ecospheres and see how they do.
That’s pretty cool. I haven’t done them in a jar yet but I bet they’d do well. Let me know how they do when you add them to some new places to explore!
@@marcelofernandez5380 You might not find them with a net. I grabbed glass jars of mucky leaves and pond water and didn't even see them climbing around until the next day. I put paper towel secured with a rubber band over the jar so there is air. I also added a live plant to try to help them and they love it.
Do their populations self-regulate, or is there risk of them overpopulating? Also is there a recommended aquarium size? My only non-fish tank is a 2.5g shrimp tank.
@@NiNoCatz I’ve kept them in 1-2 gallon aquariums. Just like anything else their population will grow to match the space / food availability in my experience. My main breeding culture I feed a lot. Other tanks I have them in have a lot less production I think because I feed them significantly less.
Wow!!! This is so crazy. Thank you for the sub and for the encouraging words ^^ We’ll see if you’re right :p if you are then I’ll be sure to say #700 called it smh. More videos coming in December!
@@Sinserg What country are you in? And yeah I don’t think local stores carry them anywhere. I mean, stores don’t even really carry scuds yet I don’t think. But maybe check eBay?
@@snowfox94 Hmmm that could be a tough one. I’ve been thinking about how I want to handle some live bearers. I may have to call in some reinforcements for that one 🤔 I can’t tell you when but because of this comment yes, I will make sure I do intro to: Guppies eventually!
Thanks for this video!!! I got mine like 2 or 3 weeks ago, and I love them so much. It answered a few questions i had, very informative. I have mine with a little baby bristlenose pleco, and the pleco just kinda helps keep the tank clean where the isopods can't reach. I dont know if i heard you say in the video, but how big do they usually get? I've noticed mine growing pretty quickly so far. Probably at least twice the size of when they arrived!
@@august9138 Hey there, Glad you’ve been loving them so much ^^; and thank you for the feedback on the video! Oooh yes I just started keeping them with pleco fry & you’re right it seems like a great combo! I would say they get about an 3/4”-1” at most. They definitely grow very fast. The males can get pretty big. I believe technically they just keep growing as long as they’re molting. So just big enough to drag a crushed snail somewhere they can safely eat it 😆
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@@mrh2o81 Hey thank you I really appreciate it! Comments like this making me feel like not being lazy so I got some more videos on different topics coming this week! I haven’t counted in awhile but I know it’s over 20 😂
you mentioned "CPBs", what does that stand for? super awesome vid, now i definitely want to find someone willing to share their freshwater aquatic isopods!!
My apologies for not being clearer. I meant CPD's or Celestial Pearl Danios! I'm copying here a comment where I list the places I'm aware of that folks can buy aquatic isopods at! "If you're in the U.S. and you want to order them from me I just need an email for the invoice and a physical address (send it to inmytanks@gmail.com). It's $32 after shipping USPS priority for a group of 12. But you could also buy them from Garden of Eder (tgoeshrimp.com/isopods/), Phillipsfishworks (phillipsfishworks.com/), or Carolina biological (www.carolina.com/crustaceans/aquatic-isopods-living/142360.pr?srsltid=AfmBOopFUILGeSwF85W1ViX9WHrpnXaST4CEKPHatw4VMJ-VcnjHhWg-), If you're in the UK asellus aquaticus is all over ebay and shipping is ez there so you're in luck! #theisopodagenda >:)"
Would these be able to multiply or survive with other fish? Tank mates? Thanks. I'm thinking about getting some for my 30gal. I have one Polar Blue x Thai Silk Bonsai and one Clown Pleco.
Hey there, I've been able to keep them with smaller fish like CPDs, rice fish, chilli raspboras etc. But I haven't tried them with the ones you listed. I would guess many larger fish would happily eat them if they could get to them.
Put these in my betta 10 gallon. They live in the leaf litter. I got them from one of my Summer outdoors tubs in the leaf litter that congregates at the bottom. The betta doesn't touch them. You'll find them in all outdoor vessels of water.
We have these in my small pond at my family home. They breed like crazy and they are impossible to get rid of 😂 my dads been trying for years but they all boom back
Will Isopods affect cherry shrimp breeding? Anybody know if they will eat small fish eggs? (I am thinking of putting them in a shrimp tank, as well as a tank with breeding White Clouds and cherry shrimp.)
@@saabtech3510 Hey as you can see I keep my main culture with shrimp and I have them together in a few different places. I haven’t noticed a difference in the shrimp breeding. But I breed both of them together with no issues / noticeably decrease with either. The shrimp out compete the pods if anything due to their size/strength/mobility advantage. I keep them in my killifish egg trays and have hatched many eggs with them. They don’t eat viable fish eggs in my experience.
@@LordChumbley if your looking for more info on them in general I have some links in the description. If you’re in the U.S. and looking to buy them I’ve left a few comments with some sources & I list them in the video! I would recap here but I’m typing with Siri while I catch pods 😂
Whilst we`re on the subject here is something I noticed that I have used successfully myself,,, terrestrial isopod manure can be used to make a great organic fertiliser for your aquatic plants.....!
Nice video, I have them in my pond and always wondered if they can be in my fish tanks. I’m just worried that if I put them in my tank they will carry desieses and stuff. Do you have any experience getting wild ones and cleaning them with some medicine or something? Btw land isopod’s actually evolved from aquatic isopods that’s why both of them have gills. Also they can even survive freezing temperatures so they are very hardy.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I don't have any experience treating them for anything from the wild since I've only had tank raised ones, but I plant to collect in the future. So i'll let you know when I do that. I would probably approach treating them like any other shrimp/similar creature that may be wild caught and potentially have parasites. I would imagine the same parasites that some of the same lifeforms that use snails/shrimp as part of their life cycle could potentially use the pods the same way. Ahh! That's a cool fact I should've included! I wondered why the land ones had gills. Very cool. Thank you for the testimony about the pond! I've been telling people they are very adaptable temperature wise but hadn't had personal experience keeping them outside. What zone are you in out of curiosity?
@@inmytanks thanks for your reply! Do you have experience treating wild shrimp or snails? I think they would have to go thru quarantaine and be treated with some medicines but I have no idea what to use since normally I don’t really support medication to much and like to approach diseases/pests in a more natural way. But I think that the isopods in my pond are really dirty and don’t wanna risk that. Well now you have an extra interesting fact for you next video😉 Greetings from The Netherlands!
@@joeyvisser9868mostly same rules that apply for shrimp treating apply to isopods too. If 3-4 generations pass after you begin treating everything should be okay
ive seen ya on reddit and ebay... ha. im definitely interested in some. im just waiting for the temps to cool down some before placing an order. how do you ship them?
@@savagepoet6269 Hey happy to see a fellow lurker out in the wild 😝 We ship them in 6x7x7 priority boxes wrapped / insulated with newspaper. We’ve been shipping all through the summer in the U.S. with some pretty high temps but these guys have been pretty unfazed so far (knock on wood).
is there any amphibious isopods? I've been looking for some small inverts that can help transfer nutrients between the water and land of my paludarium.
@@curvingfyre6810 taking my comment from another response but here’s a list of places you can get them: “Copying this from another comment on another video but here's in the U.S. where you can find them: If you're in the U.S. and you want to order them from me I just need an email for the invoice and a physical address (send it to inmytanks@gmail.com). It's $32 after shipping USPS priority for a group of 12. But you could also buy them from Garden of Eder (tgoeshrimp.com/isopods/), Phillipsfishworks (phillipsfishworks.com/), or Carolina biological (www.carolina.com/crustaceans/aquatic-isopods-living/142360.pr?srsltid=AfmBOopFUILGeSwF85W1ViX9WHrpnXaST4CEKPHatw4VMJ-VcnjHhWg-), If you're in the UK asellus aquaticus is all over ebay and shipping is ez there so you're in luck! #theisopodagenda >:)”
@@ilaarokeP Some species do occur together in nature so I think it’s possible. I’m not an expert on scuds. I guess it would depend on how aggressive they really are. Personally it would be something I would try without overthinking it too much. So only con I can imagine is if scuds actually eat the occasional baby isopod. But I don’t know if they would.
@inmytanks Thank you for your answer! I'm building my own tank currently and because I have bioactive terrariums for my poison darts I'm exploring the idea of similar setup with my aquarium.
@@ilaarokeP Ooo that sounds like fun! If I were going to combine them and wanted to be cautious I would put the isopods in first and let them establish then add the scuds.
These guys have probably survived every mass extinction event. It’s a bug world, and we’re just living in it.
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Actually isopods originated in water, precisely in the sea, where most species still live. From there they spread into freshwater and one daring species took to the land during the triassic period, becoming the ancestor to all terrestrial isopods.
@@obiwahndagobah9543 That’s awesome! Thank you for sharing. I guess we are rockin with the OGs then 🤟🏽
Insects are just land crustaceans.
I've been keeping tanks for a while now and didn't know about these guys. Thank you for the information.
To be fair they are great at hiding :p
But I relate. Glad to be able to provide so useful info! #theisopodagenda 😈
I have isopods for my terrarium. I decided to get some jars of decaying leaves and water from my pond and I saw these guys! I didn't even know they existed! I'll be putting them into my planted tank soon. They do breed fast so I hope my non aggressive fish can keep the population in check!
They deserve to me most know in the hobby, those are very strong and peaceful creatures. In my country they thrive under ice during winter and I succesfully keep them in tropical tanks also. A bunch of dead leaves and wood at the bottom of the tank will make them happy
I agree!! Which country are you from? Good point about the leaves and the wood. They love that stuff. The smaller pods will hang out on any leaves you put in there and turn them to skeletons very quickly. Apparently leaves taste good, who knew 🤔
I m from Belgium and you? Always thought those animals were endemic from northern europe, I m curious to know where else they live and if there are genetic differences that can be exploited for breeding and hybridization.
Yes they eat solid matters by chewing on them, they breakdown it easilier than shrimps does, they don't compete much with them from food
@@tigerbokken6922 I agree they don’t seem to really compete with shrimp at all!
I’m in the U.S.. species like asellus aquaticus are endemic to the UK but there are several North American species and others around the world. Here’s a map of the global distribution of freshwater isopods: www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-distribution-of-freshwater-isopod-diversity-The-areas-are-marked-as-in-Tables_fig2_226706045
I’m definitely interested in hybridization and all that so let me know if you ever experiment :)
@@inmytankswhere can I buy/get them
@@tigerbokken6922 Do you have any tips to create the ideal environment with leaves and wood?
I've got these in my ponds here in the UK and our winter temperatures can go below freezing but today for instance it's warmer 28 December at 42f or 6c I moved some of these guys into my internal fish tank and they are doing really well, alongside very small fish with an average temperature of around 60 - 65f
I discovered these in one of my water butts and can siphon them out through the tap on the container, a few at a time. In my small aquarium they come out at night and are great at devouring any unintentional overfeed of fish food, or anything else that's otherwise left to rot. As I live near beaches I have put some interesting driftwood in my tank which has been in freshwater for a while, and they love to wander over it and feed off it. Great little guys!
That's what I'm saying. They are great tank citizens :)
New subbie! First time seeing your channel. You're very knowledgeable, and entertaining with a very smooth, natural delivery. Thanks for introducing me to aquatic isopods. I never knew of their existence.
Hey grumpy, (great name btw) I really appreciate the comment. Apologies for me taking forever to respond lol.
I do my best to keep the yapping tolerable to listen to 🫡 hopefully I can keep it up in the next few weeks! Welcome to the #isopodagenda >:)
You’re more than welcome. We love the aquapods over here :)
honestly love everything about the vid. very calming and informative!
Wow. Thank you so much! You’re too kind.
I love learning about the lesser-known animals (especially inverts) in the fishkeeping hobby. Nice vid!
Happy to help shine a light on these guys. Appreciate you taking the time to watch! We're going to make sure these guys get better known over time hehe #theisopodagenda >:)
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Right? I'm always looking for more fun, relaxing animal videos to watch before bed. Definitely adding this to the rotation
@@dellybird5394 Appreciate you all! For better or worse, this is very much a “make the content you want to see in the world” situation 😂
So I am glad you like the vibe we’re shooting for :)
I have an Asellus Aquaticus culture. This tiny little crustacean looks to be at least related to these isopods. They breed in the same way and look very similar.
You don't need to buy them. Just find a body of water high in vegetative debris and run a fine net or bucket through the sludge at the bottom. You can pick them out of the crud in the bucket from there and culture them. You're likely to find some scuds, there, too, if you need them. Just be sure to pick out only what you want, so you don't accidentally end up with parasitic animals in your tanks as well.
The isopod variety around the world is amazing!
That pea puffer at least 360 no-scoped for the final kill 🤷♂️
This is what I am going to buy for my propagation tank for my newly established father fish tank. 👇
Gammarus shrimp ( gammarus pulex )
Water louse ( ascellus aquatics )
Daphnia ( daphnia pulex )
Freshwater copepods / Cyclops ( copepoda sp)
Black mosquito larvae ( culex sp )
White mosquito larvae ( choboborus )
Lesser water boatmen ( corixa sp )
Bloodworm ( Chironomus sp)
Tubifex worms ( tubifex tubifex )
Blackworm ( Lumbriculus variegatus )
May also include some other micro species
Dependent on available of each species some species may be absent but will be substituted and will always include a good mix.
This mix of species makes a great start to the base of a pond ecosystem both as cleaners aswell as a natural food source for the larger pond inhabitants
I'm really starting to enjoy this aquarium game now lol😄
Came here for the water louse's.👍
I recently got some of these and added to a community aquarium. I’ll keep an eye and see how they do long term, but for now they quickly went and found cover.
Re whether they could be food, I noticed that my African dwarf frog was good at catching the smaller ones. I think the interaction showed a balance between the frog being able to catch them but not so good that they’d get wiped out. I noticed its belly very full when it caught a couple of these.
@@pjd0707 Yeah I bet that frog enjoyed a great snack! They are good at finding cover so I hope they are able to not get wiped out. If you can identify a male and female you could always pull them out to start a culture separately.
But definitely there is a balance where you can see how they fit into the food web and don’t get totally decimated lol.
Definitely a lot of things enjoy eating them...
Sighting your sources??? 10/10 no notes. Keep it up
National Geographic: tank edition?
I wish 😆 filming in my own tanks is the best I can do for now :)
National geographic wishes they could be this interesting
@@inmytankswhere can I get these
WOW the quality of this video is crazy good. can't say i've heard of isopods in freshwater tanks before! fascinating animals they are, certainly
fantastic work with the editing, i was shocked to see this was your first video uploaded. can't say i've seen videos of this sort of topic with this style of editing before, but it's very welcome. keep it up!
Very nice!!!!
@@chisaquaticvibe6524 Thank you!!!!!
Phillps fish works sells them along with a ton of other macro and microorganisms
@@tonyadams4726 yes! I list him and Garden of Eder on screen in the video.
The coolest people are the ones that have these guys for some reason :)
#theisopodagenda
These are something I've been so interested in!!! Thank you for this video! Amazing content
So sick! Instant sub, never knew about these lil guys.
i've added the Carolina 30-pack to my tank twice in as many years now and i have never seen them. time to try, try, try again
Very very fascinating. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words. Appreciate it!
Love these isopods! Also planning to get them for my ecosystem setup. I enjoyed watching this a lot, you really know a lot about aquariums, mate!
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Ayy! Welcome to the #isopodagenda >:) Hope you have a successful setup! Honestly I don't know too much about them! It'll be my second year with aquarium this upcoming fathers day. I will say I at least know a LITTLE bit about aquatic isopods now (finally). Glad you enjoyed the video
Do you sell some of your isopods? It’s impossible to buy them here in Central Europe 😢
@@naturalaquariums76 I do sell them! Unfortunately I can't ship them internationally at this time. There's a lot of sellers of Asellus aquaticus in the UK if you ever make it over there! example listing : www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255321256211. They have it nice over there.
It’s getting very rare finding new aquarium anything, but his I just about jumped out of my seat. 😊
😂😂 Keep talking about almost jumping and I'll have to send a lid over for your own safety.
There are plenty of unusual aquarium inhabitants out there, especially inverts in your average water body. Don't be afraid to try keeping aquatic insect larvae too.
Definitely interested and intrigued to learn more about these guys after watching this video. Great job!!
Thank you!! Comments like this encourage me to work on a deep dive video into these guys ^^
I haven't stumbled upon them, even though I researched so much for my ecosystem tank what I could keep for diversity, super great video :)
@@erlenkoenig hehe well now you have :) thanks for watching! Ecosystem sounds like my kind of project ^^
@@inmytanks yay :) hope to make more videos of it when I find the time. I also in the meanwhile ordered 20 from ebay small ads (most popular small ads in germany) :]
dont just go thru a big list of microfauna tho u might accidentally make a monoculture if u dont introduce the right proportions of each critter
@@readifgey It's already running for more than 2 years, and I've started with few animals and plants and introduced more step by step and extremely carefully. Feel free to check out my artistic video featuring it ^^
Will have to try these. Thanks! Where did you get them?
Wow, this is some great videography!
I found this video from your Reddit post. I love your commentary and editing!
The camera resolution is fantastic, too. Makes me jealous. :-)
@@NatuFabu ahhh thank you so much that means a lot :)
Takes me a little while to get these together so I’m really happy people appreciate it!
Awesome, for years my garden pond was full of these guys. I would always use the pond water for my water changes and my Congo tetras would feast on these. You wouldn't see them out in the open but once I lifted up a piece of bog wood in the tank and there was a whole colony under there! Ponds gone few a few phases since then though and I haven't seen them for years.
That sounds amazing! it's so cool seeing people comment their stories with the pods in their pond. They really are everywhere! and some fish do seem to love eating them xD
This was pretty cool. I’m going to try and find these guys!
What a high quality video, thanks so much for sharing. Very cool animals!
You got a new subscriber!😊
@@etienneseitz3653 ahh you’re too kind :)
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for the sub. I’ll try to keep some semi-decent content coming as soon as possible ^^;
I have an 8 gallon tank with some shrimp and one betta… the betta is really not caring about anything and swims around so I might give them a try they seem very helpful as my shrimp are picky and may not eat some food with the bladder snails cleaning it up.
Oooh that’s a good idea. I hadn’t considered them helping with picky shrimp but that definitely makes sense. They are not as picky in my experience.
I don’t keep betta so you would know better than me on that one!
Thanks for shedding some light on these little guys! Awesome vid, you deserve more subs.
@@BricksAquatics really appreciate the comment and encouragement :)!
Glad you liked the video. I don’t know if I deserve more subs yet 😂 but I’m sure if I make some decent videos people will come around :)!
What I do know is deserve right now is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I went to make one and I had half the bread slice done and realize I was out of jelly. Don’t know what to do now with this other half now 😔
I received some of these guys from your ebay store recently, looking forward to them being cultured enough to start adding them to other tanks. I'll be putting them in with ember tetras, neon tetras, cherry barbs, and cory cats, and I don't believe they'll go after the adults.
I hope that your colony gets productive quickly ^^ Let me know how they do when you start testing them with different friends!
9:21 "I swear I saw one act like a scorpion and try and scare off a fish once" Dude! That's fascinating! You probably know already, but that’s a territorial behavior in some larger terrestrial species. I wonder if it's a convergently evolved behavior or if their shared ancestors did that too.
I just recently learned that! I do think it's pretty crazy. I need to try and get them to do it again on camera. It was a larger male trying to scare off a peacock gudgeon. He actually did manage to get away. If it really is them doing the same behavior that's pretty amazing.
Such a cool video! Thanks for making it, will stay tuned! Love the combo of education and meme aquarium content 🙏🏼
I'm glad you like the combo cause idk if I can stop memeing 😳 I'll do my best to keep some decent content coming! #thepressureison
Im excited to try and find some next summer!
Good luck!! They could start showing up sooner than that even if you get impatient xD
Are your aquatic isopods wild caught?
I recently took a few swipes with a net through some local water weeds ( in MA, so I had to stomp a hole in the ice first ) put my catch in 4 five gallon bucksts, probably 2/3 full each.literally took less than ten minutes. I then seperated the isopods from the buckets by pouring small quantities into a white dish tub and pawed through with some latex gloves, sucking up any I saw with a turkey baster couple hours later I had well over 100 isopods in another bucket which were rinsed several times to remove most of the filth. The trick to getting them cleanly then is to swirl the water vigorously, allowing the remaining bits of debris and the isopods to collect in the middle. The isopods immediately move to the outer edge of the bucket and begin the unending trip around the circumference of the bucket, making it easy to suck them up from clear water, avoiding any of the questionable bits remaining after the rinse cycle.
Hey! Thank you for the comment. These ones are tank raised and not wild caught but you definitely gave me some technique ideas for future collecting adventures >:)
When i set up my tank I'll def add some of these
They're so cool
They’re the first thing I add to a new tank now. There’s something satisfying about watching the initial deployment of the pod army crawling around a fresh aquarium 😆
These little guys are awesome to have.
AGREED 🤝
Wow! That’s a great set up you got!
Thank you! :)
Where can I find them is the burning question. I'm tempted to dig into my local creeks here in the Philippines.
I didn't do research or anything but this type of isopod in the video is a temprate North American species. I find them here in water bodies.
Interestingly I find them more during freezing weather, flocking to baited fish traps.
@@absolutelyunepic3072 **sad noises**
@@absolutelyunepic3072 I didn't know it was aquatic
There hast to an aquatic isopod in your country, water is were isopods originated. The family of isopods related to the one in the video, live mostly in ponds and other stagnant water bodies also maybe in slowly flowing creeks.
@@obiwahndagobah9543 We have tons of marine isopods, both in shallow coral reefs and deep water. I've just never seen freshwater ones... yet.
I keep aquariums and isopods, and I had no idea that we had these guys in the hobby!!
@@exxuus6260 I relate to that feeling! They are pretty new. That’s why we’re here starting #theisopodagenda 😈 to raise awareness about the shockingly high cute factor of these guys.
looks like these fellas are like shrimp but they socialize.
such cute lil guys! I love watching them jump :3
@@catgirl1263 it’s the best!
Great info! Can’t wait to try these in a tank. 👍
@@MelodieRose727 thanks for watching! Happy to help. I hope you have success with them :)
Best documentary 😁
It's at least semi-decent
These look awesome 👀👍🏽
Now just imagine swimming in a pool full of thousands of them…. You’re treading water and suddenly they’re crawling all over your skin and in your hair while singing Norah Jones in perfect harmo-- whoops thought this was my dream diary for a second
@@inmytanks😂😂😂
@@inmytanks Probably the best skin exfoliation ever
Cool, i have a friend setting up an aquarium. He might find this useful.
I have these guys living in a small jar ecosphere en with an amano shrimp. It’s coming to be about a year but I hardly see them so I might get a few more jars soon to add to my fish tanks and other ecospheres and see how they do.
That’s pretty cool. I haven’t done them in a jar yet but I bet they’d do well.
Let me know how they do when you add them to some new places to explore!
Thanks for this info. I'm wondering if they can help control algae growth in aquascaped tanks.
They do help with some algae’s! They’ll eat some types especially brown diatom algae. But also help with nutrient buildup.
Cool video 👏
nice work, nice video. I was wondering why i never saw a whole molt in over a year. Now I know, thanks.
Thank you!! Hahaha 😂 that is so funny. I’m happy to have helped solve the mystery :)
Tomorrow I have to go to my local pond with the net !!
@@marcelofernandez5380 You might not find them with a net. I grabbed glass jars of mucky leaves and pond water and didn't even see them climbing around until the next day. I put paper towel secured with a rubber band over the jar so there is air. I also added a live plant to try to help them and they love it.
There are non parasitic salt water ones that look exactly like the Rolly Polly ones, didn't know these guys existed though cool vid
@@banhatlessducks yes that’s true! Thank you I’m glad you liked the video :)
Do their populations self-regulate, or is there risk of them overpopulating? Also is there a recommended aquarium size? My only non-fish tank is a 2.5g shrimp tank.
@@NiNoCatz I’ve kept them in 1-2 gallon aquariums. Just like anything else their population will grow to match the space / food availability in my experience.
My main breeding culture I feed a lot. Other tanks I have them in have a lot less production I think because I feed them significantly less.
@@inmytanks awesome thanks for the reply ^_^
Let’s go new aquatic invert ENJOYER
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Nice video! I love Isopods so much, they're such overlooked and important creatures
Such cuties ;3
Thank you! And I couldn't agree with you more ^^;
Sub 700 here! Great video you channel has a bright future keep it up!!!
Wow!!! This is so crazy. Thank you for the sub and for the encouraging words ^^
We’ll see if you’re right :p if you are then I’ll be sure to say #700 called it smh.
More videos coming in December!
Cool little guys, I wish I could get me some in my country but I have never ever seem then in any local fish store, unfortunately.
@@Sinserg What country are you in? And yeah I don’t think local stores carry them anywhere. I mean, stores don’t even really carry scuds yet I don’t think. But maybe check eBay?
Could you make into to: guppies?
@@snowfox94 Hmmm that could be a tough one. I’ve been thinking about how I want to handle some live bearers.
I may have to call in some reinforcements for that one 🤔
I can’t tell you when but because of this comment yes, I will make sure I do intro to: Guppies eventually!
@@inmytanks thanks you so much. I'll hit the bell to make sure I will find it
Thanks for this video!!! I got mine like 2 or 3 weeks ago, and I love them so much. It answered a few questions i had, very informative. I have mine with a little baby bristlenose pleco, and the pleco just kinda helps keep the tank clean where the isopods can't reach. I dont know if i heard you say in the video, but how big do they usually get? I've noticed mine growing pretty quickly so far. Probably at least twice the size of when they arrived!
@@august9138 Hey there, Glad you’ve been loving them so much ^^; and thank you for the feedback on the video!
Oooh yes I just started keeping them with pleco fry & you’re right it seems like a great combo!
I would say they get about an 3/4”-1” at most. They definitely grow very fast. The males can get pretty big. I believe technically they just keep growing as long as they’re molting.
So just big enough to drag a crushed snail somewhere they can safely eat it 😆
Good video
As I was watching this I was like 'Holy shit. Aquaria music' Someone else played the game.
Probably one of my most formative games! Not a lot of things you could play on MAC OSX back in the day. This game felt so groundbreaking. TBH I really need to play it again soon. Last time I played it was around Christmas time so I'm getting nostalgic. Anyways, one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time ^^
Dude. I want some water bugz
Great video!
Thank you!!
Betta will go after these guys
These would be a fun addition to a shrimp tank
I can confirm that they are a fun addition!
Sweet ill try in my next community tank
@@LaCourierInCrysis let me know how it goes!
One day we will start to breed these into colorful versions just like our aquarium shrimp
I really hope so
Wonderful video, I had no idea about these guys! (I did know about marine isopods: those are nightmare fuel.)
Dreams vs nightmares 😂Ain't this what we've been waiting for?! #theisopodagenda #holdupwaitaminuteyallthoughtpodswasfinished?
Very informative
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video. Thank you
@@MerbeastsFishRoom-s7e Thank you so much for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Really great video and hope to see more videos, how many tanks do you have?
@@mrh2o81 Hey thank you I really appreciate it! Comments like this making me feel like not being lazy so I got some more videos on different topics coming this week!
I haven’t counted in awhile but I know it’s over 20 😂
you mentioned "CPBs", what does that stand for? super awesome vid, now i definitely want to find someone willing to share their freshwater aquatic isopods!!
My apologies for not being clearer. I meant CPD's or Celestial Pearl Danios! I'm copying here a comment where I list the places I'm aware of that folks can buy aquatic isopods at!
"If you're in the U.S. and you want to order them from me I just need an email for the invoice and a physical address (send it to inmytanks@gmail.com). It's $32 after shipping USPS priority for a group of 12.
But you could also buy them from Garden of Eder (tgoeshrimp.com/isopods/), Phillipsfishworks (phillipsfishworks.com/), or Carolina biological (www.carolina.com/crustaceans/aquatic-isopods-living/142360.pr?srsltid=AfmBOopFUILGeSwF85W1ViX9WHrpnXaST4CEKPHatw4VMJ-VcnjHhWg-),
If you're in the UK asellus aquaticus is all over ebay and shipping is ez there so you're in luck!
#theisopodagenda >:)"
@@inmytanks you rock! thank you!
@@brynadoodle Np! and nooo u :p
Would these be able to multiply or survive with other fish? Tank mates? Thanks. I'm thinking about getting some for my 30gal. I have one Polar Blue x Thai Silk Bonsai and one Clown Pleco.
Hey there, I've been able to keep them with smaller fish like CPDs, rice fish, chilli raspboras etc. But I haven't tried them with the ones you listed. I would guess many larger fish would happily eat them if they could get to them.
Put these in my betta 10 gallon. They live in the leaf litter. I got them from one of my Summer outdoors tubs in the leaf litter that congregates at the bottom. The betta doesn't touch them. You'll find them in all outdoor vessels of water.
That's awesome!! I need to go collect some that are local to me soon.
We have these in my small pond at my family home. They breed like crazy and they are impossible to get rid of 😂 my dads been trying for years but they all boom back
Tell your dad he's crazy we all luv these guys!! 😂😂
someone please take in these persecuted pods!!
Will Isopods affect cherry shrimp breeding? Anybody know if they will eat small fish eggs? (I am thinking of putting them in a shrimp tank, as well as a tank with breeding White Clouds and cherry shrimp.)
@@saabtech3510 Hey as you can see I keep my main culture with shrimp and I have them together in a few different places. I haven’t noticed a difference in the shrimp breeding. But I breed both of them together with no issues / noticeably decrease with either.
The shrimp out compete the pods if anything due to their size/strength/mobility advantage.
I keep them in my killifish egg trays and have hatched many eggs with them. They don’t eat viable fish eggs in my experience.
Hope this is helpful! Thanks for the comment ^^
@inmytanks Thanks much! I like the approach you take in keeping your tanks.
Cool video. Any online sources you know of for them?
@@LordChumbley if your looking for more info on them in general I have some links in the description. If you’re in the U.S. and looking to buy them I’ve left a few comments with some sources & I list them in the video! I would recap here but I’m typing with Siri while I catch pods 😂
Whilst we`re on the subject here is something I noticed that I have used successfully myself,,, terrestrial isopod manure can be used to make a great organic fertiliser for your aquatic plants.....!
@ChristopherLecky you just drop the frass in the tank?
My biggest fear is they overpopulate the tank, which i wouldn't like. Would nano fish predate on them?
Amazing, thank you sir
Anytime :) Appreciate you stopping by 🫡
u can find these and lots of other thingamajigs in well established creeks
Nice video, I have them in my pond and always wondered if they can be in my fish tanks. I’m just worried that if I put them in my tank they will carry desieses and stuff. Do you have any experience getting wild ones and cleaning them with some medicine or something? Btw land isopod’s actually evolved from aquatic isopods that’s why both of them have gills. Also they can even survive freezing temperatures so they are very hardy.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I don't have any experience treating them for anything from the wild since I've only had tank raised ones, but I plant to collect in the future. So i'll let you know when I do that.
I would probably approach treating them like any other shrimp/similar creature that may be wild caught and potentially have parasites. I would imagine the same parasites that some of the same lifeforms that use snails/shrimp as part of their life cycle could potentially use the pods the same way.
Ahh! That's a cool fact I should've included! I wondered why the land ones had gills. Very cool.
Thank you for the testimony about the pond! I've been telling people they are very adaptable temperature wise but hadn't had personal experience keeping them outside. What zone are you in out of curiosity?
@@inmytanks thanks for your reply!
Do you have experience treating wild shrimp or snails? I think they would have to go thru quarantaine and be treated with some medicines but I have no idea what to use since normally I don’t really support medication to much and like to approach diseases/pests in a more natural way. But I think that the isopods in my pond are really dirty and don’t wanna risk that.
Well now you have an extra interesting fact for you next video😉
Greetings from The Netherlands!
@@joeyvisser9868mostly same rules that apply for shrimp treating apply to isopods too. If 3-4 generations pass after you begin treating everything should be okay
I’ve never knew there are freshwater isopods never see them in the hobby lol
ive seen ya on reddit and ebay... ha. im definitely interested in some. im just waiting for the temps to cool down some before placing an order. how do you ship them?
@@savagepoet6269 Hey happy to see a fellow lurker out in the wild 😝
We ship them in 6x7x7 priority boxes wrapped / insulated with newspaper. We’ve been shipping all through the summer in the U.S. with some pretty high temps but these guys have been pretty unfazed so far (knock on wood).
is there any amphibious isopods? I've been looking for some small inverts that can help transfer nutrients between the water and land of my paludarium.
I want to say that there are isopods are go in the water some and the land but I would need to do some research!
I want to get some now
Subscribed 😊
If anyone can't find them wild, or traded locally, Carolina Biological Supply will ship them almost anywhere in the US.
@@curvingfyre6810 taking my comment from another response but here’s a list of places you can get them:
“Copying this from another comment on another video but here's in the U.S. where you can find them:
If you're in the U.S. and you want to order them from me I just need an email for the invoice and a physical address (send it to inmytanks@gmail.com). It's $32 after shipping USPS priority for a group of 12.
But you could also buy them from Garden of Eder (tgoeshrimp.com/isopods/), Phillipsfishworks (phillipsfishworks.com/), or Carolina biological (www.carolina.com/crustaceans/aquatic-isopods-living/142360.pr?srsltid=AfmBOopFUILGeSwF85W1ViX9WHrpnXaST4CEKPHatw4VMJ-VcnjHhWg-),
If you're in the UK asellus aquaticus is all over ebay and shipping is ez there so you're in luck!
#theisopodagenda >:)”
Is it possible to keep scuds and isopods in the same aquarium? Pros and cons?
@@ilaarokeP Some species do occur together in nature so I think it’s possible. I’m not an expert on scuds. I guess it would depend on how aggressive they really are.
Personally it would be something I would try without overthinking it too much. So only con I can imagine is if scuds actually eat the occasional baby isopod.
But I don’t know if they would.
@inmytanks Thank you for your answer! I'm building my own tank currently and because I have bioactive terrariums for my poison darts I'm exploring the idea of similar setup with my aquarium.
@@ilaarokeP Ooo that sounds like fun! If I were going to combine them and wanted to be cautious I would put the isopods in first and let them establish then add the scuds.
Are live plant fertilizers safe for these?
Subbed. Thanks for info
Thanks for watching! Happy to share :)
I was debating ordering from Carolina Biological but they say it’s for a class of 30 students, can anyone buy them not just teachers?
Pretty sure anyone can buy them! Carolina is just more geared towards science / education.
where do u buy these lol
They are definitely different than your normal pods.