The ghestri took the longest, but now that they are going, i hope it continues reliably alot of these werent cheap to try starting up, so success means it wasnt a wasted investment
Oh! On a side note, they have been thriving with me using baby carrots as extra food, but i worry they may need variety. They have been demolishing them like no tomorrow, but should i add other veggie types? Im very inexperienced when it comes to isopods and am keen to learn any tips or tricks if you have them
That is funny. How do yours do suicide? My A. officinalis culture felt āadventurousā and about 100 of them escaped through an uncovered hole for cross-ventilation. I checked on them one morning before heading to my school, and saw them in a line TAKING TURNS dropping through the hole to the outside worlds. It was adorable but crazy. I am still finding the dried-up roly-poly corpses scattered throughout my reptile room
Baby carrots work great! They are known to enhance the colors on your isopods, but other than that, they are not super rich in nutrients. From my experience and my research, alternating between squash, grain, and apple really works wonders for both growing and producing.
It doesnāt take much experience to keep isopods, even some rare ones like Cubaris. They are really a lot simpler than most let on.
I have some that sneak out air vents and cant walk on the plastic surface so flip upside down and dry up (i need to get some wore mesh for the air vents, some of my colony tubs arent very advanced yetā¦ they are tubberware with air slits in the top essentially haha. But thats across all of them ill occasionally find some. The zebras like to drown themselves. All the other species are content using the moss as long as i dont let it dry out. But the zebras if it gets any drier than dripping wet, they decide its time for a swimā¦ it doesnt go well for them xD
Haha. Yep, a lack of mesh screen is what caused my officinalis to escape.
Do you put standing water in your isopod bins? They typically donāt need them at all and just the moss is fine. Of course a bioactive will probably have a water bowl, but generally standing water is just a death trap for isopods
Donāt you live when they go mad!!
Makes me so happy, arenāt we a weird bunch with our bugs
Edited how?
So my snakes are all bioactive, my suicidal zebras are in with one of my snakes, the snake has a water dish. I have about 15 setups like this, but only the zebras commit suicide haha, the species in the various kther snake enclosures do very well.
They were, they were edited to add subcategories. I think they made a bit of a whoopsie and put mine under the āother invertebratesā tab instead of the āisopodsā tab, but its no huge issue. They are just trying to catagorize everything
It is nice looking in and seeing a thriving colony my colonies under 20 count scare me haha, the ones over 100 im just at peace because i know even if a few of them make dumb decisions, the colony will do fine
Lol, I do my editing at night
I feed mine mostly sweet potato and a high quality fish flake. Iāve tried cucumber, squash, carrot, and some others, but they donāt seem to like any of those very much.
I add inā¦ mushrooms, carrots, potatoes, other veggies also, and also I use turtle food (full of shrimp etc), catfish pellets too! Any fish food they usually go mad for Iāve noticed. The smellier the better
Also crushed cuttle fish a lot of people use too.
and then the āisopodā food you can get is also great for them, I got some a while back from the breeder, but you can get it online.
Though I actually think turtle food is the fav here, they love those shrimp!
The breeder I went too for all mine was also adding in, anchovies? I think it was too all his lot.
Iāve found that my few colonies really like the Repashy Morning Wood. And the fish food.
My cultures love their cuttle fish! They also love snake sheds. Iāve noticed they donāt like the scutes they like the lateral scales and they eat the thin skin around the scales. not the scales themselves. You can see what Iām talking about pretty well in this photo.
Iāve looked into some of the dried foods like minnows and shrimp. Iād like to try some of those out as well as morning wood. Iāve heard lots of good things about those.
Mine love the carrots haha, its crazy, they also like snake shed and fish flakes, but i use the fish flakes sparingly so the springtails dont go too crazy when it molds what the isos dont eat
The advantage to the carrots is it lasts and doesnt mold easy, i can throw in a couple, then 3-4 fays later when its a skeleton i can add a couple more. Thr fish flakes mold in a day or two and then its just springtail chow. How long does the shrimp last? I know dairy cows love protein, so maybe i can try it with them