Barb Helle Thank you Barb, and congratulations on the babies!!

How's it going?

Isopods are hardy little creatures... I love their community behavior, which I’ve noted in all species I’ve cultivated besides the orange Scabers who seem to be the most aggressive🥺

Supreme Gecko Thank you very much, Wally! I am often nervous about releasing a video...I wonder how it is going to turn out...but it appears this one has been well-received so far. I would be delighted if it did as well as the others.

@@Aquarimax bet it will

Pup314 Sounds like they like eggplant more than any human in my family. I will have to try that sometime!

Crystal's pets&plants Thanks Crystal’ Clown isopods are great! I will make a video about those too.

Pollertry You should definitely get some. They might breed a bit faster at warmer temperatures, but mine do just fine at room temps between 75-78F.

Fart Thank you!

Gator Dave Thank you! They really are a striking species, aren’t they?

Aquarimax Pets Thank you so much for your videos ..They are amazing , so pretty ..I want them as well now lol

They are one of my favorites! Enjoy!

Thank you! These are definitely less voracious than Dairy Cows. They do like their protein, but I don’t think this species nibbles on hands anything like Dairy Cows.

They are a rather underrated isopod. They can vary quite a bit in color, but many are very beautiful!

iddybiddyladybug Leeza They are great little isopods for sure!!

Well, I am certainly partial to isopods myself 😁👍

Emily Nightingale Right! Similar premise though 😁

I could hear Clint's voice as I read this comment😅

I believe you are right, that this species is not allowed in Australia.

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Lizzards555 Sphagnum has some natural antifungal priperties, the high ventilation will help, as will springtails. I haven’t had any problems with moldy sphagnum moss. 👍

DqsHidden It sounds like a good food item for P. pruinosus.

If there is plenty of leaf litter and other food for them to eat, they rarely bother live plants in my experience.

GOCRAFT They do sound fascinating, but pretty aggressive...

I STRONGLY dislike ALL of these words!!!🙅🏻‍♀️. I know this is a super old comment but due to how it’s effected me I felt compelled to reply to it.

It’s not very nutritious, but short term it can work. It won’t hurt them as a temporary substrate to hold moisture.

Well, it can cause problems as one species may eventually outcompete the other...and I have heard of hybrids occurring in rare cases.

i am curious species of isopod have you done this with?

@@Aquarimax they have technically 3 small holes in the caps of each and I put a pin in each hole that completely covers it and one bottle where I just pushed the one time use bottle on as hard as I could, so there is a tiny amount of air flow probably but virtually. I have the orange scaabers that breed from just 2 parents in the bottle container that has some seedlings growing in it, , then I have Dalmatians and the small fast red and dark blue small ones that have all been breeding as well in a moss habitat, and then I have some large grey ‘hippos’ in a different jar with the same covered pin holes, so really any terrestrial species will work. Also I have zebras and other orange ones in a bunch of other containers with similar conditions that I just got and are healthy but haven’t had time to breed yet. I hope I get some crosses

@@Aquarimax it took my a while to figure this method out, I lost my first patch of orange Spanish sabers because I didn’t have any practical experience with creating ecospheres so I made a lot of mistakes and the entire batch (~12) except 2 who happened to be in the smallest terrarium made out of a glass pop bottle and successfully mated to produce I’d say at at ~60 individuals, who have been thriving and bulging underground tunnels as well as the upper sides of the glass. All their parents are dead now unfortunately. It’s basically my isopod nursery. Just added som adult zebras, sphagnum moss, wax worms, meal worms, that flaky material meal worms are found in, springtails, white worms, instilled some live sprulina on the inside walls of the ecosphere recently and looks like it’s taken hold but kept in check by springtails for now. I also occasionally put random things in it like leaves that fell of my Money tree, the ‘guts of tomato’s’ with their seeds(which did sprout in the ecosphere, always die beyond that though). The substrate is gravel and dirt from outside my apartment and a little Hylocomiumb splendens (mood moss). I started with some ground Ivy I found outside as well but that’s dead now. The Scaber population either has decrease or has better hiding spots (most likely the latter, maybe a couple died naturally or got eaten by a mealworm) I also added some fish food flakes. This has caused a boom in the springtail population and some type of mite that are all in the triton nymph phase (final larval stage where they look like fat blobs with legs). Last time these mites populations exploded the baby Scabers were hungry and had a feeding frenzy on the triton nymphs or some kind of eggs. Now that there is a time of excess food the Scabers don’t need to eat the mites, so I won’t put in anything new for a while to stabilize the populations. Do you know if zebra isopods or omnivorous or just deteiviors and herbivorous?

It looks like there are at least 2 different mite species in a different terrarium, one is white and the other is red and smaller but appears to be the predator, do you know what these are?

@@fatdamon4167 the larger white ones may be grain mites. Try looking up pictures of Acarus siro and see if they match. Strateolaelaps scimitus are one species of predatory mites you can try comparing to your specimens, but there are others as well,

Nintendo1306 Reshiram I am in the USA 👍

now I likely have a couple of thousand, but in the first six months or so, they didn’t reproduce at all. you can slow reproduction quite a bit by limiting both leaf litter and supplemental food...not starve them by any means, but reducing leaf litter will slow reproduction. 👍🏽

@@Aquarimax awesome, thanks!

I have no experience keeping Achatina so I am not sure what to tell you…

For me, that’s about 12 inches. A 12 inch wide enclosure is fine to start with.

Hmmm…what is the enclosure like?

Joshua Knoebel. In good conditions, they should reach minimum breeding size in 3 or 4 months, possibly faster, but full adult size will take several more months.

Okay, thank you.

How much of a fluctuation is there?

Yes! I will work on that. 👍

Thank you.

Andrea Castaneda Hi Andrea! I would love to help you out with isopods! You can go to www.aquarimax.com/price-list/ to see which isopods I have available. 👍

@@Aquarimax Perfect! Thank you!

Porcellionides pruinosus, Porcellio ornatus ‘Yellow Dot’ and Porcellio laevis ‘Dairy Cow’ or ‘Milkback’ are extremely active.

촵촵 Fallen hardwood leaves and decaying hardwood, but after that , it is hard to say which is the best.There are some many great foods available.

@@Aquarimax I saw in your video about a bug burger and morning wood. What would you feed if you had to pay one of them?

촵촵 If I were to choose just one of those two foods, probably bug burger.

@@Aquarimax Thank you for your reply. Watch out for the virus.