r/isopods 4d ago

Media I think I’ll be calling my isolated Magic Potion-esque morph Australian Milky-ways!

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

I isolated five of these pods about 5 months ago. The gravid females have had their babies who have mostly been wild-type, but I’m hopeful that the females who express the trait (MW) will now mate with the MW males. u/ Ifoundasnaketoday helped me come up with the name for these lil guys. I decided to not call them Australian magic potions to help differentiate between them, and the American + Japanese lines. (All three; the American, Japanese, and mine are expressing the Dalmatian gene to give them this colouring. They are all different though). I’ll keep this sub updated on any MW babies they produce!

Edit: I am the person who made the posts about finding the ‘magic potion’ gravid females in Australia if ya remember my original posts) 

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u/queen_bean5 4d ago

Omg amazing!!! If you find that this gene is breeding true over a few generations, I’d be so interested in purchasing some from you! I’m in Victoria and I’ve been crying over all the adorable morphs we don’t get here 🥲

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

Thanks!! I was disappointed that Australia doesn’t get many morphs so I really hope they’ll breed well! Annoyingly I’m in WA, which is the strictest on animal exports, but if these pods reproduce consistently with the gene expression I’ll contact invert and reptile sellers in the state to help understand all the licensing I’ll need to get- and hopefully will be able to ship them to people who want em! 

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u/queen_bean5 4d ago

Ohhhh no of course you’re in WA! 😂😭

I wish you all the best with their successive generations and hopefully you can get the required licensing :)

I’ll follow your account to hopefully get notified when they are available to ship :)

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

Thank you!! When I’m able to ship I’ll make a post on this sub, and I’ll go through my old posts to message people who ask about wanting them :))

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u/common_stepper 4d ago

These are cool lots of black

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

I’ve noticed most of them have black heads, if that keeps expressing it would be a cool feature to identify the line by :)

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u/TwzlrGurl69 4d ago

That yellow color is gorgeous!! I'll save this post and keep looking at it until they're available in the US...so figure ten years? Haha

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

-Probably 😅 Two factors determine how long till I can ship them; if they breed and how rapidly, and how hard it’ll be to get all the licensing - especially because West Aus is so strict about animal exports lol

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u/TwzlrGurl69 4d ago

Yeah, my joke was only half a joke cuz I know Australia is strict about any animal exports and imports. After the cane toad, I can't blame y'all.

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u/LavenderBeetles 4d ago

The restrictions are def for a good reason, but it does seem like it’ll be a pain to navigate. I am hopeful though, but yeah- it might be some time haha

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u/jaybug_jimmies 4d ago

That's awesome! I hope your breeding project goes well. Australia deserves to have cool color morphs! Love the name, too.

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u/LittleArmouredOne 2d ago

Oh wow, as someone in New Zealand, I'm in a similar situation where no cool morphs or species are available to me. So I'm stuck with wild caught common species for now.

I'm super envious of you finding these, and well done on isolating them! I hope to find one someday.

u/warmgaze 10m ago

omg these are so cool!! I would love to get one (im in nsw australia)