Ahh you know I love P. scaber as a pet isopod ❤️Thanks for the great info and nice footage of your lot 😃

i started a whole culture of these things from a wild single specimen i threw in a bin without thinking. Fascinating!

I collected a bunch of wild P. scabers last year from the wild, both normal and calico looking ones. After a while some completely white individuals popped up, even the eyes are white. I isolated them and now have a big colony of what I found out to be P. scaber white out / snow. It is so much fun selecting and breeding your own lines, even though this morph already existed :)

I love his willingness to just say 'do your research'! So many pet channels will just spoon feed you everything and don't encourage you to go out and do your own research, which you definitely should to get a well-rounded and accurate education of animal care. Getting all your information from one source is dangerous and could be misleading, so do your research!

I picked up a small culture of Scaber Lava at an expo last year, they are easily my least shy species, they don't hide when I open the culture, and moments after dropping fish food in they are already swarming it so def protein hungry.

i love these little guys

Just bought a culture of six lavas, so I’m looking up tips for them. Thanks so much for all your videos. They’ve helped me with so much with care for all the isopods I own

I believe this is one of the most abundant for morphs alongside Armadillidium vulgare.

Found a wild calico scaber outside under a plant pot in school! Super excited to try breeding her and maybe get some calico babies. (Calico's aren't common where I live, at all.) Update: Released her soon after comment was made as I couldn't find her a mate, I placed her right next to her plant pot and she stood for a second.. and then ran under the pot to her friends and family.

I can't wait to release my line of scabers, they are so cool looking. Almost there 😎

Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝

Just ordered a bundle of Lavas, Kois, and even the elusive Porcellio haasi! and a lottery mix from another seller! I can't wait to see them get going. Thank you so much for your tips and videos, they have been so great

So nice to see someone else that knows how to say scaber 😆I was starting to feel left out lol - Great video mate, these guy are without a doubt my go to species for devouring my insects that have passed on. I keep a large colony of them just for that very purpose.

I started keeping isopods as pets recently just by collecting them from the wild, and I find it interesting that both my A. vivarum and P. scaber wild type cultures are grey with yellows stripes/spots, rather then just plain grey.

Have you made a dedicated video on how to isolate isopod morphs? If not, you totally should!

Thank you so much for answering my questions during the live. I love these videos.

Well i "keep" them in my Garden. In german its Kellerassel meaning Celar woodlouse.

Very interesting this field is so cool lol

My isopod wishlist seems to expand every week but I can probably only reasonably get 4 or 5 within the next few years. So hard to choose!

Thanks for doing my suggested species! The orange koi is beautiful.

This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌

Dunno if you'll see this since this vid is a year old. But thank you for your vids! You're my number one go to for isopod information! Hoping to get some P. Scaber - Lava next week, if it's not too hot here. They will be my first Scabers.

I caught a few P. scabers last year when i found a few orange ones in a sheepspasture. Theyre somewhere in between calico and lava as far as the morphs go. Unfortunately it seems the few adults i got died after a lil while (probably got a bit dehydrated befor i found a scheduel that worked), but i got plenty of babies atm. They got some cabbage and crushed eggshell last week and its pretty fun keeping an eye at em while they feed.

Oh wonderful...just what I needed. More P. scabers. I see a bunch of babies all over the place (insert sarcasm). I had no idea how prolific these are.

now i know why I always failed to culture them #lol 😂. from your videos i'll avoid made a mistakes again so i can tried again to make a culture of blue powder isopod,, orange isopod and dwarf white isopod too..

Another great video 👍

I picked up 5/6 porcellio scabers from outside in august(Saw some red isopods and was interested in isolating it - didn't know what it was at first.) and now I have easily around 20+ individuals not including the mancae. I use them as snacks for my dart frogs and crested gecko now lol. I love those orange koi scabers. I may have an addiction to red and orange isopods. 😬

I was thinking, I would love to see some of your videos focusing on the bioactive setups you have for your herps with isopods (and beetles and whatnot). Very curious about how you've set things up and what it looks like at the moment, and how the isopods are doing in there. AND we would get to see your scaly critters too while you share you experience of the setup with us! That would be very exciting.

Just picked up some calicos, Dalmatians, and koi for a bioactive 10 gal based off your recommendations for humidity happy isopods. Thanks for the info @Aquarimax Pets

In a book about soil ecology I found some stuff on isopod biology: - Isopods prefarably eat alder (Alnus) and ash (Fraxinus) leaves ower oak (Quercus) and beech (Fagus) leaves. - Isopods have a special requirements for calcium and copper. Calcium is needed for their shells and copper is part of their oxygen carrying pigment (hemocyanin). From a leaves isopods diggest 79-94% calcium and almoust all of the copper. They alsou eat their own excreta from which they use copper, which is often eliminated from a body with the end products of metabolism. (I guess fishfood gives enought copper.)

i have a small group in an ecosphere. i usually find a lot of cool morphs like calico, orange and lava in my garden and especially in my compost heap, many of which descended to some color morphs i introduced in my garden

interesting story. a while back i set up a native terrarium with some various isopods including scaber, some millipedes, some small centipedes, a tiny snail, and some earthworms. all with moss, live plants and wood. i bought some assorted porcellio scaber of ebay and put them in. a while later i was feeling a bit drained and changed it up multiple times. in the end i released the inhabitants back into my garden including both the ebay and the native scaber. weeks later i saw a lot of orange and calico scabers appearing in my garden. still see the oranges quite often until recently as i think the cold kiled them off so i will have to wait until the weather warms up too see if i can find some more idk if this classes as releasing an invasive animal as they were already native i do not encourage releasing pet isopods even if they are native but captive bred i was rather inexperienced with the hobby and i hope to properly keep some soon just thought i would share

Orange dalmatian is so beautiful, same with orange koi

Thanks for your videos! You play a part in my fascination and love for isopods. What can I do to go deeper other than husbandry?

I may soon buy some Porcellio scaber or collect them from the garden 🤔. I think I'll be more likely to collect a few from the garden as we have so many of these 😅 and I don't want my two roosters to eat them up☹️

Hi, thank you so much for sharing your experience! I just started in the hobby and I wonder about boxes. I've some boxes transparent and other not (just the cover is transparent). Do you think there is any issue with non-transparent boxes for some species ? I've a small amount of Porcellio Scaber, and I want to get a new, bigger box and I rather want to start right.

I have calico isopods, but they are different colors ranging from dark brown, orange and white! All I know they are not picky and very easy to care for, and mine are breeding. I probably will get the light colored ones separated to carry on their genetics. Talk about variety!

Can you do a species care guide on Homo sapiens sapiens?

the scabers are awesome and the most common in my area. considering them for a bioactive leopard gecko tank. would they coexist with mealworm beetles

Im very Young and I love isopod care. I have this common species I want to know what temperature and humidity levels should be maintained inside the enclosure.

Random but honest question, would you ever consider keeping a giant isopod? Bathynomus giganteus? Just curious.

So, "Lottery Mix" will eventually revert to wild type over time and many generations? If so, isolating like kind upon arrival can secure the color variants after say 3 generations?

Do you know if the Dalmatian orange are suitable for a tortoise enclosure as a clean up crew ?

I got myself wild porcellio scaber, but unlike your isopds mine are very shy, very scared of light and bodyheat or breathe emitted by observers. That said my isopods hide nearly all time under the bars and other objects i provided them. other than that they seem to do good, they have eaten a lot in the first weeks but then stopped eating so much, which is when my springtails from the wild started also increasing in population. SO i am just curios, how or when will my isopods become less shy? XD

When you got porcellio scaber lottery mix what isopods did you receive? I just bought some of my own.

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Hello! I wanted to say, that i ordered a few species around 5 or something, and a few morphs around 7 (including the lottery ticket one and powder mix) so, i wanted to know if all my enclosures have to be different? I ordered a few porcellio scaber, including snow koi, porcellioides pruinosus powder mix, venezillo parvus Dalmatian, porcellio laevis dairy cow, porcellio scaber lottery ticket, porcellio scaber orange dalmatian, armadillidium nasatum (whiteout), armadillidium Perracae, armadillidium vulgare “magic potion” japanease line, keep in mind i am a begginer, only owning a very common species i collected near my house, so what i did with every enclosure was put forest floor substrate, mixed some tiny pieces of bark and wood and charcoal, calcium, put quite a bit of spaghnum moss on the side of each, might remove some because the common isopods i have have been dying in there, but mabye i just put too much water, put fairly large pieces of wood (not dead yet) for hides but they still nibble on the top outer layer of the wood, i also put some bark so they can nibble on because i put them in their new enclosure 2 days ago, i ordered my isopods from smugbug, she says they will arrive today, supposed to come yesterday but something happened to the driver, but thats better because my leaf litter will be coming today and some extra bark that i need to add in. I watch your videos and theres a lot of wood, so I’ll put some more wood and bark, my enclosures arent that big but they are about 17-18 inches long and 12 inches wide. I would love some info from you! :)

Do porcelio scaber eat snail eggs?

Can you please do maculatum next :)

Hi could you do a care guide for Cubaris Pak Chong? There seems to be a lack of information regarding their care.

Scusami, un sito che vende isopodi nella descrizione dei porcellio scaber dice che non amano ambienti umidi, tu in molti video dici che vanno bene per terrari umidi, qualcuno può aiutarmi a capire meglio quale sarebbe il loro clima ideale?

Is porcilio scaber poisonous? or do you have illness? something like that

I know highly unlikely but any chance these things would kill a crested gecko , have to ask lol

Is there an isopod for moist habitats (does not need a moisture gradient) & is larger than dwarf white, but smaller than P. scaber?

I’ve selectively bred my own orange scabers wild caught here in Santa Barbara California. Is there is any value in a separately bred Orange version from what is available currently in the hobby?

Do you have or sell lottery mix

Are the white ones albinos, or can they be bred with any other ones and have some white ones?

Is there ever any issue with this isopods damaging plants in a vivarium?

I've seen all these morphs in the wild I just collect some for free lol

is dairy cow and dalmatian the same isopod?