@@Aquarimax All the initial questions, and more, as usual. Knowing they go at the substrate that much is very helpful, since that lets me know to alter the mix a bit and make it even deeper than planned.
Giant canyons are one of my top isopods. I love how large they are, and watching them come out at night to nibble on veggies. They also seem to enjoy coming out to walk around in me.
Thank you so much. Just from articles alone there was never enough details. This is my first time ever keeping any bug pet, and im in a dorm room ha! Hopefully now i can provide a better life for my little fella
I have wild caught dilatatus I’ve been keeping for over a year. I found them on oak logs between bark and the log. They sure do burrow in captivity. The original ones I had were enormous but died off and the ones I have now are their offspring.
Great video! Also, totally unrelated, but I am excited to share with you that I have found babies in my dairy cow enclosure! I had one crawl on my finger - I couldn't even feel those little legs, but I did feel it parting the tiny hairs on my knuckle - and I teared up lol! XD (Sorry if that is of no use to anyone lol, but I had to share with someone! Have a wonderful day, all!)
Yeah I just started my about two weeks ago I placed them in a 10 gallon aquarium With spring trail and both are doing well I did enjoy your video and thanks very much for all the information that you’re have given us
Legit I love your videos. Where I live, I am not joking we have these isopods as wild ones. They are rather large and curl right. I honestly have no education when it come to them, that is why I am watching. I am trading powder blues, for some pure canyons and some magic potions.
So I have this idea where I want to make part of the subterranean displayed. I'm not sure how exactly to do this, but maybe just something like a well shaped rock or piece of wood that I could place up against the glass, then put the substrate overtop. Also some sort of tunnel to the surface. I was wondering if you had tried anything like this? It would be cool to take a species that isn't typically considered a good for display, and turn that into their main feature. Also would probably be cool with other species.
Josh from Isobuddies did something like this…he put one glass container inside another, so the layer of substrate between the viewing glass and the inner glass was relatively thin. He said that the enclosure allowed him to see his rubber duckies much more easily l!
Hello, thanks for this video, do you recommend this species for a wolf snail terrarium? It has a humid, dry area and I plan to place some porcellionides pruinosus Or what species do you recommend for that terrarium?
@@Luisangel-em4dy It depends greatly on the environment and care. I feel like these two have niches that are different enough that they might do all right with enough food for both and a nice deep substrate for the P. dilatatus.
Thank you for these videos…. I have giant canyon and this year I had a colony of ants move into there enclosure but what was weird is they were living together and the isopod didn’t seem to mind. I think it was because the ants were coming out during the day and isopod at night. After I found and removed the queen ant everything went back to normal and isopods seemed like nothing happened. But I just thought it was weird they lived together for about two weeks and it was a lot of ants I thought my isopod were done
I have heard of some people keeping isopods with their ant colonies on purpose successfully… and horror stories too…I guess there are a lot of variables. I’m glad yours are fine!
Hey Rus, I'm looking back on your video because I have found a species that I believe is giant canyon, but were naturally found outside. Armadallidium Vulgare are the most common here, so I was a little shocked to see this species isopods of this size. They look the same. These isopods have created an orange strain. I have cultivated a group of them separate from the natural brown colored. However, a few of the natural brown colored ones have produced the orange gene/strain. I was wondering if you knew of a similar species
They may indeed be Porcellio dilatatus, or a Porcellio laevis. The telson of P . dilatatus is quite characteristic if you do a Google search you can compare.
It can be difficult to do, as the daphnia need to come from somewhere. Daphnia eggs can sometimes be carried by birds, or the wind, to new bodies of water, but it isn't that likely to happen to a small bucket.
Do you have any tips on how on selling them if you have a vast majority? I know there's permits regarding out of state shipping but what about local sales?
In-state sales don’t require permits. Offering volume discounts are a good way to sell them, especially at reptile expos or local online classified sites.
I messaged you a few months back on Insta having found one of the all white Giant Canyons in my culture, I isolated it with a few other giant canyons, and I think the all white ones are sterile or something. It seemingly wanted nothing to do with the other isopods, opting to just bury itself in the soil. Every couple weeks I would check and it would still just be buried in the same spot in the soil. While the others in the culture began breeding, I never saw a single white baby isopod. I'm now wondering if you need 2 of the white morph to breed to create more whites, or if like I said they are sterile.
I remember that! You may still have a chance of producing some…some of the gray babies may carry one copy of the gene. In the meet generation you may get some!
in other animals you would try to breed it with their parents to check recessive genes. you probably should have not isolated it to increase the chance of breeding with its parents i guess?
@@li-ma-mu it is much harder to tell parentage with isopods, so isolating with a few other individuals is the next best thing. Hopefully the next generation will yield something!
Can these or other isopods successfully be cohabitated with blue death feigning beetles? I am wanting to diversify my display tank with more colors and varieties of creatures! Thank you!
What's your opinion on giant canyons as a clean up crew in a 40 gallon leopard gecko terrarium. I think they will thrive but are they protein hungry like dairy cows with the risk of biting the gecko?
@@Aquarimax you’re amazing for replying to comments up until now, *subscribed because I will be purchasing these and you’re an interactive creator is hard to come by, god bless friend
last year I kept a lot of roly-polies in a huge habitat I did a lot of research on them beforehand Cuz they are super cool in my opinion and so I can take care of them, but I had to let them go Cuz I can't bring them inside and it was becoming fall and soon it would get too cold for them, and that species look a lot like the ones I kept
yes, I caught them from the wild but there were no parasites or any creature in there that weren't supposed to be, and no pesticides are used where I found them and all that stuff
Off subject from the main topic of the video but, could I use dairy cow, or zebra isopods in my crested gecko enclosure? I haven't really seen a ton of info on if it's ok to do this. Thanks!
Diary cows are a bit controversial, but I have some dairy cows in with one of my cresties…for several years…no problems so far. I have had zebras in with mourning geckos…the geckos ate most of them but one grew to be gigantic.
@@Aquarimax thank you! I've been hearing about the dairy cow thing and just wasnt quite sure how likely it was that they would just eat my crestie. I'm just more worried about over population with the porcellio isopods. I might try out the zebra isopods and see if they work ok.
Thank you so much for providing free educational content! 🖤
You are welcome, I am glad you appreciate it!
Cool looking pod!
I literally just paid for Giant Canyons yesterday, that I will be getting next week. So the timing of this is perfect
Excellent! Did I cover everything you had hoped to learn?
@@Aquarimax All the initial questions, and more, as usual. Knowing they go at the substrate that much is very helpful, since that lets me know to alter the mix a bit and make it even deeper than planned.
And very cool little big isopods
Giant canyons are one of my top isopods. I love how large they are, and watching them come out at night to nibble on veggies. They also seem to enjoy coming out to walk around in me.
They remind me of the movie tremors lol I’m dating myself. It gives me a giggle when just their head pops up.
Do you think they would be okay to cohabitate with feeder roach colonies?
The lil lad poking their head grabbing the food and hiding back in their burrow is *adorable*
Thank you Russ.
I can see mine through the sterlite container all the time as they love to burrow! Definitely a must have!
This is a really cool video series. I would love to see one on armadillidium granulatum.
Thank you so much. Just from articles alone there was never enough details. This is my first time ever keeping any bug pet, and im in a dorm room ha! Hopefully now i can provide a better life for my little fella
I have wild caught dilatatus I’ve been keeping for over a year. I found them on oak logs between bark and the log. They sure do burrow in captivity. The original ones I had were enormous but died off and the ones I have now are their offspring.
Another great video Rus! Always excited to see a new video from you pop up in my feed. I'm going to have to get some Giant Canyons now!!
Appreciate this video! They are quite awesome isopods
Great video! Also, totally unrelated, but I am excited to share with you that I have found babies in my dairy cow enclosure! I had one crawl on my finger - I couldn't even feel those little legs, but I did feel it parting the tiny hairs on my knuckle - and I teared up lol! XD (Sorry if that is of no use to anyone lol, but I had to share with someone! Have a wonderful day, all!)
Congratulations on the wee dairy cows! This is a totally appropriate place to share the joy!
I have a small colony and they're amazing
Yeah I just started my about two weeks ago I placed them in a 10 gallon aquarium With spring trail and both are doing well I did enjoy your video and thanks very much for all the information that you’re have given us
Love my giant canyons!
They are pretty great!
Excellent video rus
Thank you Frank!
Legit I love your videos. Where I live, I am not joking we have these isopods as wild ones. They are rather large and curl right. I honestly have no education when it come to them, that is why I am watching. I am trading powder blues, for some pure canyons and some magic potions.
I just recently attained the caramel variant of this species
I have those isopods collection
awesome
😊👍
I find them all over the place in Arizona
I have a lot of them
I have a wild found white morph!!!! Found in San Diego by a lake, he’s the only one I found white and I found many others!!!!
I hope you can isolate a
morph from that individual !
So I have this idea where I want to make part of the subterranean displayed. I'm not sure how exactly to do this, but maybe just something like a well shaped rock or piece of wood that I could place up against the glass, then put the substrate overtop. Also some sort of tunnel to the surface.
I was wondering if you had tried anything like this? It would be cool to take a species that isn't typically considered a good for display, and turn that into their main feature. Also would probably be cool with other species.
Josh from Isobuddies did something like this…he put one glass container inside another, so the layer of substrate between the viewing glass and the inner glass was relatively thin. He said that the enclosure allowed him to see his rubber duckies much more easily l!
@@Aquarimax Oh, that's a good idea too. Thanks for the response!
Can you do a profile on Dalmatian isopods
I've got some peach colored ones and some almost purple in my colony
Awesome! I’d like to see pics!
@Aquarimax Pets im not sure how to share photos on here but I just uploaded a short vid of a few of my canyons.
Hello, thanks for this video, do you recommend this species for a wolf snail terrarium? It has a humid, dry area and I plan to place some porcellionides pruinosus
Or what species do you recommend for that terrarium?
I have never kept wolf snails, but P. pruinosus are sort of the default soddies, they are very versatile and will likely do well.
@@AquarimaxThank you very much for answering, I have one more question, p. Pruinosus can coexist with p. Dilatatus?
@@Luisangel-em4dy It depends greatly on the environment and care. I feel like these two have niches that are different enough that they might do all right with enough food for both and a nice deep substrate for the P. dilatatus.
Thank you for these videos…. I have giant canyon and this year I had a colony of ants move into there enclosure but what was weird is they were living together and the isopod didn’t seem to mind. I think it was because the ants were coming out during the day and isopod at night. After I found and removed the queen ant everything went back to normal and isopods seemed like nothing happened. But I just thought it was weird they lived together for about two weeks and it was a lot of ants I thought my isopod were done
I have heard of some people keeping isopods with their ant colonies on purpose successfully… and horror stories too…I guess there are a lot of variables. I’m glad yours are fine!
cool
Hey Rus, I'm looking back on your video because I have found a species that I believe is giant canyon, but were naturally found outside. Armadallidium Vulgare are the most common here, so I was a little shocked to see this species isopods of this size. They look the same. These isopods have created an orange strain. I have cultivated a group of them separate from the natural brown colored. However, a few of the natural brown colored ones have produced the orange gene/strain. I was wondering if you knew of a similar species
They may indeed be Porcellio dilatatus, or a Porcellio laevis. The telson of P . dilatatus is quite characteristic if you do a Google search you can compare.
Can you do maculatum ❤️
Definitely!
can you make a video how to make a daphnia naturally without a starter
It can be difficult to do, as the daphnia need to come from somewhere. Daphnia eggs can sometimes be carried by birds, or the wind, to new bodies of water, but it isn't that likely to happen to a small bucket.
Like the name
Do you have any tips on how on selling them if you have a vast majority? I know there's permits regarding out of state shipping but what about local sales?
In-state sales don’t require permits. Offering volume discounts are a good way to sell them, especially at reptile expos or local online classified sites.
I messaged you a few months back on Insta having found one of the all white Giant Canyons in my culture, I isolated it with a few other giant canyons, and I think the all white ones are sterile or something. It seemingly wanted nothing to do with the other isopods, opting to just bury itself in the soil. Every couple weeks I would check and it would still just be buried in the same spot in the soil. While the others in the culture began breeding, I never saw a single white baby isopod. I'm now wondering if you need 2 of the white morph to breed to create more whites, or if like I said they are sterile.
I remember that! You may still have a chance of producing some…some of the gray babies may carry one copy of the gene. In the meet generation you
may get some!
in other animals you would try to breed it with their parents to check recessive genes. you probably should have not isolated it to increase the chance of breeding with its parents i guess?
@@li-ma-mu it is much harder to tell parentage with isopods, so isolating with a few other individuals is the next best thing. Hopefully the next generation will yield something!
Question, where did you get your isopod T-shirt?
Can these or other isopods successfully be cohabitated with blue death feigning beetles? I am wanting to diversify my display tank with more colors and varieties of creatures! Thank you!
I saw a video in which it was done with Armadillidum vulgare. Seemed to be going well! A hydration station would be critical.
@@Aquarimax thank you for the response!
I actually don't have the species yet, I know it's one of the first most people start off with
It was in my second ‘wave’ of isopod acquisitions, along with my Zebras and a few others.
What's your opinion on giant canyons as a clean up crew in a 40 gallon leopard gecko terrarium. I think they will thrive but are they protein hungry like dairy cows with the risk of biting the gecko?
I keep them with some of my garter snakes without any issues. As long as they have alternative food sources available, I think it would work.
@@Aquarimax you’re amazing for replying to comments up until now, *subscribed because I will be purchasing these and you’re an interactive creator is hard to come by, god bless friend
I know this is a fairly old video, but I wanted to ask just in case I got a response: can I use coconut coir substrate in their enclosure?
Coconut fiber won’t hurt this species. It isn’t very nutritious for them, but it isn’t dangerous for them.
Been looking for a pet insect that does good at room temp, no heater.
last year I kept a lot of roly-polies in a huge habitat I did a lot of research on them beforehand Cuz they are super cool in my opinion and so I can take care of them, but I had to let them go Cuz I can't bring them inside and it was becoming fall and soon it would get too cold for them, and that species look a lot like the ones I kept
yes, I caught them from the wild but there were no parasites or any creature in there that weren't supposed to be, and no pesticides are used where I found them and all that stuff
Off subject from the main topic of the video but, could I use dairy cow, or zebra isopods in my crested gecko enclosure? I haven't really seen a ton of info on if it's ok to do this.
Thanks!
Diary cows are a bit controversial, but I have some dairy cows in with one of my cresties…for several years…no problems so far. I have had zebras in with mourning geckos…the geckos ate most of them but one grew to be gigantic.
@@Aquarimax thank you! I've been hearing about the dairy cow thing and just wasnt quite sure how likely it was that they would just eat my crestie. I'm just more worried about over population with the porcellio isopods. I might try out the zebra isopods and see if they work ok.
Which ones is the biggest in the hobby?? :)
Porcellio hoffmannseggi might be the longest, and perhaps Porcellio expansus are the most massive overall.
Do you work with p. Floria? Is the care similar to P. Pruinosus?
I don’t keep them, (well, the species status of some of them in the hobby is actually uncertain) but their care should be essentially the same.
@@Aquarimax thanks Russ, you’re the man!
I *DID NOT* pronounce that correctly 💀
Well, some variations are acceptable!
Rust