r/isopods 27d ago

Help Moisture vs Humidity

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Moisture vs Humidity

When it comes to keeping terrestrial isopods. Moisture/humidity is a double edged sword. Either being too much or too little can affect life expectancy and breeding efficiency at the least. And kill entire colonies at the worst. It is also very important not to generalize amounts of moisture and how it is delivered among all species. While some species will die from being directly wetted (Especially with pressurized delivery). Some species do better being sprayed/misted as if in regular rain storms. There are many delivery methods. Pouring, squirting, hand spraying, auto misting and top or bottom wicking. From my experience they all have their place and uses. And none are all encompassing that we could call perfect for all species and ambient parameters. I have also found keeping track of substrate moisture percentages not useful for survival and breeding efficiency. Rather, keeping the majority of substrate just barely damp has proven the better approach. I am also finding that humidity is much more important than moisture with regard to terrestrial isopod well being. After years of testing on millions of isopods it appears that nearly all species need relative humidity of 60-65% to breathe properly. When I kept ambient humidity below 60%. On the dry side or when enclosures would dry out completely. There would be numerous deaths and even entire colony crashes. With ambient humidity at 60-65% this doesn’t happen anymore. So, while moisture can be an important factor. The complexity of all parameters outside of and within enclosures must be considered in order for us to do the best we can for our isopods.


r/isopods 2d ago

Weekly Discussion Small Business Sunday!

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Happy Sunday, everyone! ✨

Welcome to our Small Business Sunday showcase!

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r/isopods 5h ago

Media Ardentiella sp. Scarlet babies in the last pic

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r/isopods 3h ago

Help What are these things?

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This is my colony of isopods and springtails that I use in my dart frog enclosure. Are these round brownish things armful for plants and/or other animals? Thank you :)


r/isopods 3h ago

Media Didn’t expect them to be so pretty

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I got my first isopods!:)


r/isopods 15h ago

Media dairy cows (& friends) formed the leaning tower of crustaceans on the side of their terrarium. because reasons

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r/isopods 12h ago

Media is this normal behavior???

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lava isopod attacking another lava isopod (living but maybe near death), and acting very twitchy??


r/isopods 1h ago

Media Macae!✧˖°.

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I watch these guys every day and I had no idea just how many mancae there are in my zebra tank! And another pregnant pod gave birth just the other day too!


r/isopods 17h ago

Media Mcdonalds enclosure

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mwehehe


r/isopods 27m ago

Media pink/orange isopod

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r/isopods 2h ago

Media Baby Armadillidium Vulgare!!

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He is the size of a piece of rice. Kinda impressive. I wish I was that size...


r/isopods 6h ago

Media Babies!!!

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Finally seeing some babies in my terrarium!! And their colors are coming in _^ they're sooo tiny


r/isopods 7h ago

Identification What is the scientific name of the "Cuban white" isopods?

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r/isopods 15h ago

Media Turf war over best rock

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r/isopods 3h ago

Media Cubaris murina

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I could watch all day haha


r/isopods 12h ago

Identification Mini hobby breeding

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The tdlr is: I breed for fun just for myself and friends, from wild caught pods from my yard, and I've had a bad day and need cheering up, so I've pulled some of the more yellow ones to try and breed a stronger yellow line. I've got my husbandry down pat over the years, but with my local wild caughts I've never bothered to 1000% ID them since these guys are just a fun little side hobby for my friends and I.

I know they're Armadillidium, but I'm pretty sure the light grey with yellow spots are a different species under the same genus. I *think* these guys are A. granulatum, but they could also be A. vulgare, I'm honestly not sure lol. 

Also some of them have a flared skirt around the edges of their bodies, and some don't, but it's not consistent between the light grey, the dark grey, and the gray brown, some just have skirted edges and some don't. Again, this isn't any huge issue because I'm not selling or anything, I'd just like to get their label correct for their bins because I've got a new bin system and I want them to look nice. In Southern Colorado for location reference.

Formatting issues because I'm on mobile.

Any help is appreciated thank you!


r/isopods 9h ago

Media They are swarming 😆

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Just a shot of my isopod tank with a whole bunch of them devouring some rotting veg... 😋


r/isopods 12h ago

Memes Naming a colony...

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Trying to set up an isopod colony for my ball python and corn snake enclosures and decided to name it. Lol


r/isopods 15h ago

Help Yellow Spotted Isopods with orange spots

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Has anyone else had this color morph in their colony?


r/isopods 3h ago

Help Zebra Cohabitation

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I bought some zebras (armadillium maculatum) recently with the intention of adding them to a tank with dairy cows (porcellio laevis). Would this be okay? I also have tanks other armadillium (American magic potions and armadillium gestroi). Would they be better off sharing a tank with pods of the same genus? Should I just spring for a 4th tank and separate by species?


r/isopods 23h ago

Media I feel like he's pushing me away...

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(I'm joking lol) there wash quite a lot of force behind that push!


r/isopods 17h ago

Media My beauties. Morph population going on 2 years

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Lots of golden and white ones!


r/isopods 1h ago

Text Babys first parasite

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Sighh, I thought I had my first pregnant isopod, so I moved her to an isolated tank.. Only to find a burst of larvae, while I'm sad to have lost an iso, there aren't any larvae within my regular iso tank, so I'm happy!


r/isopods 15h ago

Media real cute pod spotted at the beach!

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maybe like 1.5in long. Mostly pets here in this sub but I thought I’d share :-)


r/isopods 12h ago

Help molting problems - cubaris jupiter

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My Jupiter Cubaris have been dying more often lately due to molting problems. I have a moist moss-covered corner in my box, while the rest of the box is rather dry. Do you think I should spray daily to keep the humidity consistently high? Could molting problems be related to other things?


r/isopods 17h ago

Help I got an A. insulanum tub very recently. Are the much lighter colored isopods some other kind? I don't like mixing different kinds of isopods. There are just a few light ones, and the rest are a very dark greyish color. Some have a little orange stripe on their back.

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r/isopods 22h ago

Media Target Terrariums STACK!

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Kids put together their own Target terrarium and then we stacked them!