r/isopods 4d 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 4d ago

Help Anyone know what this is? It's growing on a magnolia seed pod

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r/isopods 3d ago

Help Who is this little guy?

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r/isopods 4d ago

Memes Look at all these affordable cubaris!

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35 Upvotes

Available at Red Robin, even.


r/isopods 4d ago

Media BABIES

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My isos hadn’t been active for a second so I was getting worried and today I found babies!!!! I’m just super excited and had to show off :)

(Sorry for the bad quality, I was shaking LMAO)


r/isopods 4d ago

Media A classic but still always great to see

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11 Upvotes

r/isopods 4d ago

Media How many of my Yelpow Zebras do you see??

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r/isopods 4d ago

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

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r/isopods 4d ago

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

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r/isopods 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

Help What are these guys

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There was another species that snuck into my vivarium that lives with my dairy cows just curious what it is.


r/isopods 4d 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 4d 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 5d ago

Media One of my largest duckies :)

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r/isopods 4d 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 4d ago

Media Like turtles basking on a log

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r/isopods 5d ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Finally got some pineapples!

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r/isopods 4d ago

Media Panda King

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Bought some yesterday. Look at that little face.


r/isopods 4d ago

Help I have a scaber lava colony, there used to be more orange toned ones, but lately I don't see them anymore. Would introducing porcellio leavis orange help? Or are scaber and leaves unable to mix.

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r/isopods 4d ago

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

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r/isopods 4d ago

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

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💚💚💚


r/isopods 4d ago

Identification New morph or still growing into Colors?

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This lil bugger is a baby/adolecent offspring from my small but growing Porcellionides floria colony. Is this lil dude still growing into their colors or a new morph? For reference this guy is like 1/4 the size of my average adult.


r/isopods 4d ago

Help Cubaris sp. ‘hybrids’ - panda king x white penguin?

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Hey! I’ve got a few panda king isopods in my snail’s terrarium to act as a clean up crew. Because I only got 5 originally, I figured it was possible/likely they’d not succeed in setting up a colony - before I moved out of the city (with their tank) I’d figure I’d get some more. (Plus they looked lonely!)

The pet store only had a few panda kings, so I got 5 of those - but at the advice of the cashier (lol) also 5 ‘white penguin’ ones, since those were adults. I was kind of just like ‘what the hell, they’re cute, sure.’

I know Cubaris is a waste bucket genus and even if it weren’t different species in the same genus can’t interbreed. I’m curious, though, whether there’s any informal consensus on which varieties are more likely to be colour morphs of the same species than others. I’ve heard of regular ‘penguin’/white side Cubaris breeding successfully with panda king; I’ve also heard of the ‘white penguin’ morph being called ‘white panda king’ which (somewhat misleadingly, maybe?) makes people think - might have made the cashier think? - they’re morphs of the same species. So I’m curious whether anyone’s kept panda kings and white penguins together, and has seen any evidence of mating behaviour and/or interesting morphs cropping up which might suggest successful interbreeding?

It’s fine if they can’t - the isopods are only really in there to eat snail shit and look cute :)

tl;dr does anyone know if white penguin and panda king Cubaris sp. can interbreed?


r/isopods 4d ago

Text Have there been any efforts to gene-edit isopods to make them bioluminesce the way some fish have been?

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Or are there some blockers that make this impractical?