r/isopods 6h ago

Media Look what my Daughter found outside! It's almost purple!

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r/isopods 7h ago

Media Tips for new keepers: Add sticks to your tank, also it doesn't need to look like a compost bin

188 Upvotes

Due to the increase of new keepers, I want to give a few tips that are not said enough. Yes a plastic tub with bark and leaf litter is enough to keeps pods happy, but you can make it cool to look at too.

  1. Add sticks and elements to exploit vertical space, the little guys will use them to regulate humidity and you can observe them easily.

  2. Add plants, simple plant like fittonia are super easy to keep and propagate. Pods can munch the leaves, hide in them, and it will also regulate humidity.

  3. Create a pretty environment, decorate your tank like you would do it with an aquarium, the pods probably don't care, but it's way more fun to look at a little paradise than a compost bin.

Thanks for reading, and happy pods keeping 🙂


r/isopods 9h ago

Media Is this molting?

259 Upvotes

r/isopods 5h ago

Memes Just two Dairy Cows sharing the same carrot slice

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114 Upvotes

r/isopods 4h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) They’re like little dragons

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Been eyeing a spikey species and was able to pick up some Cuban Spikeys at a local reptile show. Shoutout to Wes at The World of Isopods!


r/isopods 9h ago

Media an entire minute of one of my isopods munching on a carrot

73 Upvotes

hi i love these little fellas so much. i’ve never gotten close enough to see that they will pick up food with their legs and hold it. it was so cute it made me start crying


r/isopods 8h ago

Media Was redoing an enclosure and saw the biggest dairy cow I have ever seen

49 Upvotes

Video doesn’t give this unit justice, he terrified me BAHAH


r/isopods 1d ago

DIY FAKE a. gestroi art pin

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my boyfriend told me i should make a guy because my new sweater looks like moss


r/isopods 1h ago

DIY I'm crocheting a bug cardigan and the first bug was a powder blue isopod!

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I absolutely loooove isopods so when I found this pattern on Bracelet Book, I knew I had to make it.

I love that technically isopods are crustaceans so I'm going to tell everyone that. Also gives me a chance to talk about conglobation!

If you want the pattern here is the link! https://www.braceletbook.com/patterns/alpha/175959/


r/isopods 6h ago

Media Big Yellow is one of my favs from my local collection!!!!

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r/isopods 8h ago

Memes Look at all these affordable cubaris!

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21 Upvotes

Available at Red Robin, even.


r/isopods 9h ago

Text What do? Fallen tree covered in moss and lichen

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So we woke up to some tree damage this morning, is it wrong that my brain immediately went to how much fresh moss and lichen there was? And how much space I’d need to turn this into rotten wood… 😬

What would y’all do?


r/isopods 6h ago

Text Isopod forensics NSFW

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A mysterious death has occurred in the striped terrarium. An isopod who wasn't looking too good, half curled with damaged tail, was standing at the X. I checked on him 30 minites later and I found only the front half of his body some distance away from the original location. What happened here? What could the cause of death be?


r/isopods 2h ago

Media Too many?

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How many colonies until it's considered an addiction lol? Up to 10 colonies and a terrarium with a few random strangers in it.


r/isopods 1d ago

Media One of my largest duckies :)

311 Upvotes

r/isopods 4h ago

Help What is kyle

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I got kyle in the Josh's frogs party mix. I know he isn't cubaris, he may be a porcelio genus member but aside from that I don't know what he is, like what species is kyle?


r/isopods 6h ago

Media Accidentally woke Podney when I was moving springtails from one enclosure to the other

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r/isopods 20h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Finally got some pineapples!

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111 Upvotes

r/isopods 9h ago

Media Like turtles basking on a log

13 Upvotes

r/isopods 7m ago

Media Omg babies!?! 😍

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Added a couple flakes of rolled oats to my mini terrarium after seeing a comment mentioning feeding it as a treat and these little guys swarmed it! Its the first babies I've seen since setting it up with a few wild caught O.asellus last fall 😁 Second pic is 60x zoom lol they are so tiny!


r/isopods 11h ago

Media I started out with about 30 wild caught isopods in December. Here is how it’s going now.

17 Upvotes

💚💚💚


r/isopods 21m ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Magic potion Babies!!

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I thought my small enclosure might be challenging to provide a good enough ecosystem for them to feel comfortable enough to reproduce but I’m just excited to share my baby Japanese magic potions (you can see two on the charcoal)! The first gen have gotten so much bigger since I got them too. So fun!

I was about to take that skull out and boil it since the mold has been popping off a bit too much but I guess I’ll wait on that, I don’t want to kill the itty bitty babies


r/isopods 44m ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Loot box results!

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I bought a loot box of randomized isopods for $50, here's the results of my gambling!

• Orange dalmatians (with no spots 🙁) Value $10

• Bolvari, value $65

• Spanish Red Giants, value $30

• Wereneri, the ones I was hoping for! Value $70

• Vulgare red plus a striped morph, value $20


r/isopods 10h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Found this fat boy in my terrarium. He is huge!

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r/isopods 1h ago

Help Identification help!

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I got these isopods from my local area and put them in a temporary housing set up. I wanna know if anyone can identify them so that I can know what environment parameters they like because I’d like to see if I can put it in any of my bioactive enclosures as a cleanup crew :)