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Hi there to everyone at Supreme Gecko, I'm a person who loves little critters like amphibians, reptiles, and inverts, and have wanted a vivarium, terrarium, or aquarium for a long time - and although I may not be able to start a colony of isopods for a while, I'll definitely be buying Supreme Isopod Chow for any future pods I may have, and this channel is a great resource. Thank you for the great work! And that coconut half looks great. I'm the kind of person who would be so pleased to see my little pods cruising along or tucking up under that coconut half. Have a great day!

I've noticed the audio is audio is 'weird at the end. My apologies.

I’ve had my wild caught vulgare for over a year now and I’m just now learning about using lime. 😭 I swear I’ve watched sooo many videos and read a lot of articles on the care of isopods and I don’t remember anything about lime. They get substrate changes but still. I want to take care of the cuties. I knew I should’ve started watching your videos from years ago! You’re truly the best!

The first time i had isopods they died out and I’m pretty sure they had bad substrate, thanks for helping me not make the same mistake twice!

Very helpful Wally! I do appreciate you listing the ingredients in the description below!

Again thank you Wally. Those isopods are amazing. I love how you went into full detail on how to set an isopod enclosure. I have gotten four different isopods from Brittney as well she does such as excellant job with her isopods as well as the care in shipping them, as well as being in contact to be sure they arrived in excellant shape. Keep up I am looking forward to your next video.

Yes!! New vid! And new substrate recipe--double nice

wow those isopods were super fast and the maculatum with the yellow stripe are just beautiful,,,thanks for sharing your iso substrate recipe

Very helpful and looks cool. Thank you

But...but...I use Land O' Lakes! 😆 EXCELLENT video, this is one of the only videos that has 100% of everything isopods need. 👍🏻👍🏻

I am going to use this mix when I re do my Isopods. Thanks for sharing., Those yellow zebras are amazing! And nice set ups too

The black and yellow zebras are absolutely amazing

I’m behind! I missed that you had posted this video until today! Gorgeous pickups too!!

Another action packed adventure. Thanks again Ricky 💃🏼🕺🏼🎸🪳🐈‍⬛😎

Oh man my butter had no calcium. Guess I’m going to have to trash all my soil mixture. Lol 😝 hahaha that was funny!!

Thanks for this Wally. I am about to get more duckies and had QUESTIONS. you are great.

I use coco fiber, crumbled up leaf litter, tree bark, natural wood shavings from chainsaw, charcoal, ground egg shells, a little sand, sphagnum moss, and potting soil

Great video! Thank you so much for sharing your substrate recipe. I will definitely be switching to this mixture. And awesome tip for The Isopod Chick. She had the two specific isopods that I was trying to find for months! So excited!

Nice enclosures! I LOVE those isopods! I have the normal zebra and I didn't even know the yellow ones existed but they are AWESOME! I also didn't know the other species existed but their speed reminded me of my simandoa conserfariam cave roach babies because those are also fast

Cool isopods. Thanks for showing me how to make the substrate

Can’t believe your almost at 5,000 Subscribers

I'm coco for the coconut! Those yellow zebra's are amazing! I'm always surprised at how many isopod variations there are. Still loving all your vids.

We have fallen in love with geckos and isopods they seem to go hand and hand .We have learned the most info and care from you sir good job hopefully your You tube takes off you deserve it for sure Our best isopod enclosure for sure is the aka wild caught lmao like they are not all , but we scooped adults and mancae from our compost bin and it is flourishing they are As we can tell rough woodlouse as per color / size .They have tunnels and caves in our glass terrarium its amazing .So far our Armadillidium vulgare are also doing great we made some enclosure mistakes but you have fixed us up with your educational videos ..good job

Looks like a Really Nice Setup and Awesome Isopods

Great video. I will be watching this a lot in the future.

Yes

Your tips are very helpful for newbies like me in this hobby, thanks alot 😁

Great video Wally... and perfect timing with Rus' video today on different types of enclosures... Tho... I prefer to use, "I can't believe it's not butter" in my substrate, cuz you know... Fabio was wise and all knowing... 😆

Excellent video Wally. Very helpful.

Always great knowledge

The Vietnam Are gorgeous I love their color

Good stuff, I like to use rough charcoal in place of bark. It does the same thing as far as adding space, while also doing a lot of other things such as odor neutralization, and nucleation points for bacteria. I've also noticed mancae like to use it as a nursery if a carrot creche isn't available.

3:21 Possible scuttle fly (humpback gnat, phorid gnat) in the Jungle Mix. Gnats are one of the banes of my existence. I find it mandatory to either heat up soil or at least CO2 treat soil before using it, since gnats are practically ALWAYS in garden/potting soil.

Another mix I used is coco fiber, orchid bark, sphagnum moss, leaf litter, charcoal (dont use briquettes) and sometimes sifted peat moss. Just thought this might help someone 👍

Oh man thank you!

My substrate mix is coco fiber, aspen shavings, decaying wood crumbled up. A little calcium and some of the wood pellets. I personally love to make substrate for isopods and millipedes. I usually end up making too much

- Orchid bark will also work as a replacement of rotten wood, in my understanding. - I have the Merulanella sp. 'Red Head' and they look extremely similar to those that you have purchased. But I don't know if they are the same. They are quick, skittish and secretive. P.S. I had to subscribe again, perhaps a YT glitch.

Awesome video as always ☺️ thank you for being the reason that I started collecting isopods.

Looks like I’m picking up some more supplies! 👍🏻

Thanks for the links in the description! Awesome video as always!!!

Great video!

Playing in dirt is always fun :)

THANK YOU! so much for this video. What great information.

Awesome video Wally!!

I think it cool your videos help me out with my own isopods

Great video wally! Definitely need to try this isopod substrate mix at some point 😁 also the new additions are gorgeous, yellow maculatum are a favourite of mine!

Thank you for sharing.

Great video, thanks for sharing ur knowledge 👍😀

I have one zebra with the yellow stripes. They are neat.

Yes Wally it looks real kool 👍😀

Great video Wally! You’re making me want isopods again 😂

nice setup and beautiful m. vietnam. wow they are fast.

I recently bought a substrate for isopods and milipedes and I have yellow mushrooms growing out of it :/ And as a bonus, since then everytime I open the lid atleast 10 small fruitfly-like flies fly out of it. I probably should ventilate it more though. They don't have that much holes in the lid. Thanks for the video, great as always ;)

LOLOL you almost got me with the butter hahahaha

Great information.

What a great video! I know you sell isopod chow, but have you ever thought about selling isopod substrate?

Now I want yellow zebras xD

Always love your videos on isopods. And, love, love the yellow zebras! Plus for me, the timing was great as I am going to be getting my first isopods very soon. So, of course, I want to prepare the best possible home for them. One thing I did get a bit confused about when you gave the the quantity of ingredients to include in the mix was the amount of worm castings to use. It looked to be about 2 cups--or am I off on the amount? Looking forward to your next video.

Yellow Stripes look so nice

Those are some nice looking isopods. I really don’t like bugs, but there’s something about isopods I adore. Question, have you ever experienced problems with mushrooms with your old mix? I used your old formula of mix in my crested gecko terrariums and have had issues with mushrooms growing in them. Have any advice, and is it a bad thing?

I left my leaf stems in with my isopods, for climbing on, but i've noticed that isopods won't eat leaf stems, so maybe it is best to just remove them like you did.

Thanks. Always interested in seeing isopod substrate recipes. The lime is new ingredient from others I’ve seen. Will look into adding that. Didn’t hear you say how much Worm Castings?

I have gone through many pets. I had so many isopods, then I got rid of them. Now I'm going back to isopods and I think they will be my 1 and only pet. I think I have to give up mealworms due to allergies.

Great info video! I was wondering if you could do a video at some point of how deep you make your substrate depending on the species, like for the ones that like to burrow vs top dwellers, and the ones who do both. If you already have done this could I get the name of the video? :)

What type of wood pellets do you use? I noticed your link takes us directly to the hickory, but there are several other woods available. Is there a preferred type of wood to use? Thanks for the video, I'm a noob to this and your videos have helped me a lot!

Where/ what kind of lime? I never added any, but new to isopods😊

I tried mixing wood pellets with organic compost, but the wood pellets gets moldy after a few days even though I have good ventilation. Is that normal??

What kind of wood pellets? Certain ones to avoid?

Does it matter which wood pellet type we use?

What water is safe for isopods?

Thanks for the valuable tips Wally! I have two questions to ask you. 1. Can I use peat moss instead and garden lime to neutralize pH? 2. Can I use Pine bark (marketed as Orchid bark)?

What worm castings are you using

Those Vietnam isopods look kind of like a red Cubaris Jupiter.

How much worm castings do you add?

What do you do if you're extra allergic to Coconuts, and you need a substrate without the coconut fiber?

Great video! Is there anyway you could show the links to what and where you get your materials? I am wanting to mix up my own next time. Those Zebras are amazing! The kids asked about possibly getting Zebras as well and those look awesome!!!

Just got small colony of powder orange isopods and they started breeding and I now have tons of babies so I’m just trying to learn as much as possible to keep the colony in top shape. This is the second species I’ve worked with and had great success with dwarf whites so trying out another species that’s larger so my tiny baby red eyed crocodile skinks have another food option in their enclosure. Every couple of months I have newborn croc skinks hatch out and would love for them to have more food options so I’m gonna try my hand at these. Is there any advice you could give me on the species of isopods and if you think it’s a good idea adding that species in with my croc skinks that already have springtails and dwarf whites established in their enclosure ???

Can i use calcium powder for reptile ?

Can you use reptile calcium without d3

Great video and information where do you buy the orchid bark and can you substitute it with something else like coco chips ?

hi, can I use any wood pellets? will different wood pellets affect anything?

Does your wood come from outside?

Hi. Love the channel, i keep isopods mainly because i ove to watch them, but they breed so prolifically, can they all be eaten by other inverts, reptiles? and if so? which ones are best to keep my isopod colonies down?

other then cool to look at do isopods have a purpose or ? im new to the isopod world lol

I have a question about these Isopods they were sold as p.scaber but I don’t know which morph the bigger ones are a grey color and the smaller ones are a lighter grey and their more iridescent

Do you bake any of the items to sterilize them?

Wally, where do you get worm castings? I have gone to Steins and I haven't found " Worm castings" I got top soil and used that instead, is that ok?

Is it okay to use tap water?

I dont see any of my white dwarfs. Did i kill them?

Do the isopods eat the coconut?

Hello Wally! I have milkbacks and they are enjoying the cork bark much more then any other food, is that something I should be worried about ?

How much Worm Casting do you use.

Where do you get wood pellets

So, anyone use actual worms in their substrate ? Maybe they will aerate and add free castings ?

I need help. My mix smells like ammonia. What should i do?

I didn't know there was yellow zebra

Lolrof