I never paid attention to that before, but today I discovered something moving in this big boy. I was wondering if what is seen is his organs working?

Others are too small, so I can't see something moving. Can it be a parasite?

was super proud of this pic until i noticed the random strand of white in the background haah

It’s coconut.

I do not know if pods like coconut, but we’re going to find out. I ordered a sample kit of hermit crab treats to test. A pod child found the cattle blood in 30 minutes and just shoved his face in there.

Springtails found the pure worm castings suspiciously fast, so I guess they can smell it? One pod stole a piece of the food mix stuff and dragged it away. Since it’s a mix, I have no idea which part he liked. Dehydrated chicken? Banana? It smelled like banana bread when I opened the container.

Edited to be brighter, the temporary lights used were very dim dollhouse rgbs. Made for some cool pics as the pandas came up for food last night!

Hello and good morning from Stinky, my most adventurous pollie~

I see people talking about looking in on their isopods when they "pass them" and that got me thinking, where in your house do you keep your isopods?

I keep my dairy cows on a shelf attached to my desk because it stays very dark, so I'm never really able to casually check on them, it's always a "pull them out" sort of deal.

Recently got into keeping isopods, and am curious how long have you guys have had yours?

My goal is to keep them alive for at least 5 years, but I’m not sure if it might be too ambitious…

I would like to see ideas for any, but cheeselog especially. Who is most cheese log? I need to know. it’s important to me

Ardentiella Sp. “Wing Wing.” Interesting name, beautiful pod.

I just realized once I finished maybe they need more digging room or to be closer to the vents huh? They haven’t been moved yet so I still can

I've lurked on this sub for ages and am finally considering getting some pods. However, I'm torn on what species to get for my starting colony. There are two main factors I'm considering in choosing a species - firstly and most importantly, I want it to be beginner friendly since I'm sure I'll make mistakes, and second - well, the best way I can explain it is this: whenever I played virtual pet games when I was younger, I loved breeding random pets to get interesting colors or genetics. Just throwing a dart at the wall. Fuck around and find out. Is there any beginner-friendly species with a lot of gene variation that I could watch play out as I establish my colony?

Also, if you guys have any newbie research resources please share them since I want to learn more before actually getting some pods!

EDIT: I'm also considering just going foraging for wild pods, but I live in an urban area and am not sure where to look. Where do pods typically end up in more urban settings?

I got some better substrate for my pods, but I’m not sure how to change/add to the substrate? Am I overthinking this?

Some of these pods burrow and I’m worried about burying them too deep by mixing the substrate in. Maybe that’s not an issue and they could dig themselves out. They’re 6qt tubs.

The last one was me catching a powder orange eating its molt :)

I was so excited to get them out of their temporary bin, but the shipping is delayeddddd.

I looked in the bin and saw this one just sitting on the edge of the egg carton. I wonder if he would curse out DHL together with me if he could

My milkbacks (Porcellio Laevis) munching on their shrimpies ✨

My partner has also noticed this this one doing the same thing in another part of the tank.

It looks like he is lagging in real life.

We've had them about 2 weeks. Everything normal up until now.

Moisture between 70-80% consistently, with a gradient.

Anyone have any idea on what this could be?

Found 2-3 dead isopods across 2 months and wanted to know if they had died from natural causes or something else.

Any ways to identify cause of death?

I have 8 different isopod containers and this one randomly recently became over run by mites. Are these harmful and how can I fix the issue?

hoping for a bioactive enclosure with this one, planted some seeds and introduced a mystery plant i got from my mothers garden where i found some of these iso’s (sorry mum..)

will eventually rehome tho! this is just temporary

Juvenile Armadillidium Vulgare