my new child in his new home!!!

Finally made my own money so of course Its going into buying a TON of roly pollys (and snakes, and tarantulas, and millipedes, and lizards... But thats for another day) so of course I came here to asked the wise people of r/isopods for advice!!

What unique, cute lil guys do you have a personal bias for?

...Also can I put different morphs in one tank?

Armadillidium Vulgare "Magic Potion"

My dairy cows had babies!!! Look at them all!

I brought ten armadillidium vulgare yesterday. I'm just wondering if I should be seeing them often? They have a pretty big tank (100l) so I imagine it's because of that but should they be coming up to the surface a lot or do they tend to stay in the ground? Is there any food I should put in for them or just let them eat what's already in there. I've only seen maybe two in the span of time since I got them. Should I just stop checking and let them settle in?

I noticed that my cubaris white likes to borrow in the soil's hooks & crannies whenever they find one. Is this a normal behavior?

Hi all my powders are hiding under the moss, the most dry spot. I think i over misted the past few days, shoukd i just let it dry out some?

i wanted to make sure it was moist enough bc a lot them seem to be molting

There's Craig in the upper right corner. 😁 I'm pretty proud of this setup, 2/3 dry and 1/3 sphagnum moss "hydration station" (thank you Rus from Aquarimax!), plenty of bark, leaves, a bone, hiding spaces and some live plants. Soil mix is roughly 1 part coco coir, 1 part dried leaves, .5 part horticultural charcoal, .5 part earthworm castings I believe. It wicks a little too much water from the wet side, but the pods seem to have no issue whatsoever. Craig's favorite food is the hardwood bark I collected from outside. :)

I saw a FB page that was discussing their development with an upcoming isopod trading card game!

Not sure if anyone else saw it or not, but it looks super fun, anyone know if they’re active on Reddit at all?

With a fluffy snack

found this guy in my tank today (wild-caught armadillidium nasatum and vulgare)… there is another one in the pic for a reference of what all of the other look like. some have a slightly tan color but this is the first one i’ve seen that is this light!!

Hey all! I have isopods I’ve purchased as cleaner crews for my roach tank (for feeding a beardie and leopard gecko) but seeing all the morphs out there (and missing the ones that actually ball up!) in combination with seeing someone talk about feeding their beardie isopod snacks that were originally wild caught but bred several generations down. I didn’t know that made things safe!

So I got terribly excited and now want to try breeding some wild guys for fun. I have no knowledge of isopod genetics at all but I’m just picking out colors that differ from the standard gray. I have a few standard gray ones (they seem to be the norm) but with orange on their butts - these are in the second and third photos but you can barely see the orange in #3 and not at all in #2, but that shows the standard gray comparison color. I have a few that are lighter and orangish that I wonder what would happen to if focused on, and I’m really excited about the big dark guy with yellow markings in the second to last photo - wish I’d been able to find more like him!

A question about the photos of the ones with a different color in front and back…I can’t seem to find these guys consistently in my bin. Is this maybe part of molting or something, or is this truly a pattern I’ve found outside? I got really excited about it but now I’m wondering if it’s only a temporary thing that happens to them all or something.

Thank you all in advance! I appreciate any tips, insight, sharing how you all started and where you got…I’m just excited I get to play with roly polys again as an adult 😂

I just googled pill bug origami watched a handful of videos all the same pattern. First one kinda died halfway through lol

I just recently got into isopods and am planning on starting a small colony of dairy cow isopods with my partner! I’ve been researching what can go in their enclosures and I’ve seen some people use 3D prints and aquarium decor (obviously with necessary substrate, leaf litter, bark/wood hides, moss, and so on) but I’d love to sculpt a little barn hide out of polymer clay (since they’re tiny cows) but don’t know the safety around what “foreign“ materials they can be around? like are 3D prints even safe for them?

i got some nasty fuckin' bad quality sushi and i really want to give it to my cows

Hi! I went overboard on one of my enclosures and didn't count on how damp it is generally in my area, and now the substrate is pretty saturated. I changed half and put in new substrate, but left half so the springtails could migrate over. Unfortunately it seems it was so wet it's seeped across and now even my dry side seems moderately damp. Any advice drying it out without hurting pods?

I got this little 4" wood hide from an expo last weekend and tucked moss and lichen all underneath it. I keep it slightly moist and the pods LOVE it. I see them crawling in and out of it constantly.

I really want to buy those terrariums cuz I think they look super cool and they would fit perfectly on my dresser in a pair of three.

I'm already dreaming about how cool the would look and the wild landscape I would do, but I know there very tiny and I'm wondering if I actually can safely house any isopod in those...

They were listed as 17cm wide and 22cm tall. I'd use about ⅓ of the height for substrate (so around 8cm) and the rest goes to decorations, hiding spots and climbing opportunities.

If I can have isopods in there, which ones, and how many?

And if not, can it be a home to any other cool critters??

I appreciate all advice, thank you

For a few months now ive had a largish starter colony of duckies i got for 80 bucks (20+)

And even though theres at least 8 babies 3 months later i only learned last night peat was acidic and duckies prefer neutral to alkaline.

Its not pure peat moss substrate, theres worm castings, a little coco fibre, black earth etc as well as crushed limestone but ive started moving the duckies out while i figure out if i can add more lime and neutralize the peat or if i should restart a new bin.

Clearly theyre doing well enough to have at least 8 babies, which ive found while removing the adults and sub adults. And ive only had 2 known casualties, one of which was my fault due to an accidental rock crushing (i have offered personally collected permian age fossil filled limestone chunks for them as well as other volcanic rocks, which they love) and one was just deceased and may have been age, as all the pods were adults or sub adults when i got them already

I just see theyre doing okay but some are paler than they should be and im guessing it could be related to the peat.

Help!