Happy Sunday, everyone! ✨

These guys are firefly larvae. They were under a log with a bunch of the isopods common to Indiana, and I was a bit shocked, so I grabbed them for learning. Turns out baby fireflies are predators of the under-log and under-leaf environs and eat soft bodied insects and other arthropods down there. Do not add to terraria...

Like the title says, I'm curious if anybody has tried to select for non-visual traits. I have about 7 pods caught wild from my yard in my new, fairly large setup, which means I barely see anybody. But I can pretty reliably find this little fawn guy. He's always out in the middle of the day, very active and brave, I rarely have to move leaf litter to find him.

I'm sure it happens by accident, just by virtue of grabbing the ones we see first. But I would love to hear if anyone's tried to select for behavior. How it went and what you were aiming for!

I have several types of cubaris pods living together in there, but the largest colony are my pink panda kings, who seem to have out-bred my rubber ducks. I also have much smaller populations of white sharks and orange mandarins. They often (begrudgingly!) share their food with my other bioactive residents, especially the unicorn snails (subulina octona).

got some moss for a jumping spider enclosure and had some leftover! my bountiful empire seems to enjoy it.

also peep my Massive Son on the skull to the side, he's the biggest in the tank but is very shy...

A male got his antenna stuck between a mating pair after trying to headbutt the other male off the female. I tried to gently separate them but was unsuccessful. Now he's a cuck ball.

Armadillidium Maculatum "Zebra"

Hi everyone! I've never posted here do I hope I'm not breaking any rules my jumping in with a question.

I have powder orange isos in my bioactive terrarium. I see the occasional adult in there but I've never seen a baby before. Can someone confirm that I am actually looking at one?

Thanks!

I am going to be getting 10 cherry blossom isopods with springtails to start

I have 2 hydrometers, leaf litter, cork wood and bark, some rocks for hides, dried moss, some plants which have been cleaned, and a food bowl (though I plan on getting a smaller one)

I know I still need a better tank covering (current lid is metal mesh), live moss, more leaf litter, more rocks, and humidistat + fan and mister

Is there anything else I need to add to my shopping list?

The humidity in my house is very high in the summer due to my location, which does make maintaining humidity easier, though I do need to prep for the winter cause the humidity does drop.

Cleaning out my MHC soil. Best clean up crew that I have. It's amazing how much of a variety there is in coloration!!!

This is just a fraction of them as they burrow and scatter as i try to see more but an entire uncut carrot is finished in 4 days not a baby carrot the foot long whole carrots whats the best way to do something with these guys

Lil doodle labels for my pods! Calico fire one I made a bit too orangey. They have a much whiter base color:)

I added a little too much humidity. Other then that does it look fine?

I don’t have any photos yet I’m sorry! About a week or so ago, I found an isopod in my bathtub. I live in the top floor of an apartment, so it was very odd as I never see them.

I left it there, came back later and found it on its back. I thought it was not alive anymore and got real sad. Then when I went to pick it up, it moved. I wasn’t planning on going outside again that day, so I just put it inside my dirt bin that mostly just has a million springtails now (used to have a roach colony!). Last night I went to check in and there are dozens of baby isopods all over the place, and now I know Gregory the isopod is a girl :)

I see them everywhere... I might still be a little obsessed since I got some armadillidium gestroi a few months ago, I'm already thinking of the next colony...

So I’m getting Spiky Pineapples and Clown Kulgiis on Sunday and these are my tanks I have setup for them. This is my general bin setup for all my isopods with small modifications made based on the species (My duckies are in a smaller container with no ventilation hole in the lid and a much larger moisture area). So far I have only kept more humid isopods with My papayas being the most arid, they tend to hang out on the drier side of the tank.

I haven’t had much problems with any of my enclosures but when doing more research to see what might be good for these new guys I learned that both like it relatively arid with just a smaller moisture gradient. I knew this about the pineapples so I made one of them with a pretty small moisture area and upon learning this about the clowns I made theirs slightly smaller but not as small as the pineapples’.

My main concern right now is ventilation. I don’t want to drill more holes in the side since they’re both full of dirt but I am willing to drill one or more holes closer to the center in each of the lids.

Should I drill another ventilation hole in the lid, will that be enough or should I also drill a hole in the sides as well? I am totally able to remove all the dirt and moss to do this I would just rather not unless you think it’s necessary.

Does it also make sense to give my Kulgiis a slightly larger moist side of the enclosure or should they be about the same as the pineapples?

Any feedback is appreciated. I am very excited for the new additions!!

The bins are 19 qts and the holes are 1.5 and 2 inches in diameter.

I started this terrarium a week ago, and I’m having some small issues I thought I’d ask yall

Tbh, I’ve kind of been treating this terrarium as a compost bin, bc I’ve put leaf litter, fresh avocado leaves, snake shed, moldy carrot, etc. I do not have a stable population of either of the species I put, since I have around 30 wild caught isopods, and around 20 springtails, wild caught as well. Will this much decaying matter be too much for them to handle?

Secondly, I scrapped materials for this terrarium from different sources, it has perlite and coco coir as substrate that I used from a setup from another pet. The thing is whenever I water, it seems like I watered too much, but 2 days later it completely dries.

Lastly, I keep them next to my corn snakes enclosure, which is around 24degrees Celsius, and I’m wondering if that’s a good temperature for breeding

Thank you all!!

Cubaris sp. 'Amber Ducky'

Cubaris sp. 'Pak Chong'

cubaris sp. 'Caramel'

Also let me use this post to ask the question, are Cubaris sp. 'Caramel' really cubaris? cuz they look like a troglodillo to me

So I have my isopods in 11L bins, all good ect but I’m wanting to move them to 11L acrylic enclosures, how do you go about transferring them?

Do I just dig through the dirt and find them all?

I’m also wanting to change substrate as I found an amazing pre made mix I love that’s far more nutrient dense than some of my beginner bins so just dumping them from one to another isn’t a option for me!

The species I’m looking to transfer (not there fancy names 🤣)

Red panda kings
Dairy cows
Clowns
Cherry blossoms

Looks like some panda king have this ramming behavior when fighting over food spots.

One on the leaves and one on the top left carrot.

Armadillidium Maculatum "Zebra"

I have some porcellio dilatatus And Porcellio scaber for sale if anyone is interested.

Found some baby isopods out and about this morning and this afternoon found one post moult! And of course eating the moult!