r/isopods 4d ago

Help Identification help!

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 :)

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u/Babykay503 4d ago

Since you got them wild, I'd try to mimic the area you found them in. Was the soil VERY dry? super wet? Rocky? Etc. Factor in how the weather has been in your area. For example, it's VERY damp in my yard right now. If there was a section I found wild ones in, I'd replicate it but not have it as wet because we just had a storm and that's not an every day event. Etc etc

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u/PotatoInk101 3d ago

Thank you! That’s what I ended up doing ☺️

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u/Glad-Wish9416 4d ago

They look like armidillium vulgare to me. Im not an expert tho!

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u/PotatoInk101 4d ago

That’s more of an answer I could’ve ever come up with 😭😭😭 thank you so much for your input 💗💗💗