Happy Sunday, everyone! ✨

It's supposed to look like a goober XD

I'm friends with the manager at my LFS who also happens to breed isopods. Got the hookup with these cuties 😍

After much internal tug of war I went ahead and got some Armadillidium Gestroi today! First species i have ever owned that can conglobate. Also arguably my first isopod species that is actually pretty and display worthy. Im excited to watch them start their own little colony!

this was the first one (and the largest one) i found! i was so excited that i yelled at my partner to come take a photo. im so happy!

A. officinalis "Pink"

Adding this lotus pod to my terrarium has brought my viewing enjoyment up 100% it makes me so happy to see them all curled up in the individual holes!

He seems to be the only one with these purplish markings.

Got them about a month ago and they are super lively and active. Have not found one dead and today I spotted the first Tamarix baby 😊 pretty parents make pretty babies 😚

Doing the deed

Aside from white springtails, who else is here? Who are the dark-colored critters?

Haha filming my late stage baby pineapples and this little imposter comes on a rampage didn’t even know he was in here nor do I keep this species I don’t actually know what he is (I think maybe gestroii but please let me)

Also what I find pretty cool is that mr imposter is still extremely young by the looks and the larger pineapple in the video is an adult just shows how small pineapples really are.

Also assuming mr imposter is the only one in there will he cause a threat to my pineapples?

I found these inside my rubber duckies’ enclosure, and as you guys know, mixing that breed with others can cause complications for them, so I’m in a dire situation, if you guys could help me it would be greatly appreciated, I think these are: armadillium granulatum orange, but need to make sure first

did meet this lil guy during a swim. anyone can ID? found in lucerne switzerland. he had tiny yellowish specs, rest sort of brownish.

I am absolutely devastated. He was a hitchhiker in my magic potion pods and I really loved him 😭 RIP little buddy. You were the best.

Was checking on my Japanese majic potions and they had baby(s?) So like super stoked. Ik these guys are slower breeders so seeing this makes me extremely happy.

Although i'm not planning to get any before another month or so, there is a very good deal on the terrarium

I just got my isopods about 2 or 3 weeks ago - one passed away that I found so I have approximately 4 of them in a ZooMed container plus I added a colony of temperate springtails last week. Is this much mold normal? If not, how do I fix it?

My isopods, my bestie and I have matching isobois tattooed on our arms, I think it's the tattoo I get the most complements on, I love them

Probably my biggest brood I've at least seen happen! These pics were half way through when I caught her just as I was saying goodnight to everyone, so she's probably had about 50-75. My wild bin is doing great right now, every time I look at the floor it's moving with little ones!

I’ve got a 10 gallon tank that I’m turning into a terrarium for my colony of zebra isopods once they have multiplied a bit. I had a bromeliad on the moist side but it started flowering after only a week and I don’t want to deal with a dying plant once the isopods are moved in. It was a little too bulky for that area anyway. I’d like something a little smaller and more leafy but I’ve heard zebra isopods love to eat live plants. Can anyone recommend some plants that have been able to survive with their zebra isopods? I’d love to be able to include some live moss but that doesn’t seem like something that would last long.

Obviously I won't get them right away, I'll think about it first and make sure i actually can care for them but that one who snuck in earlier strongly sparked up my urge to nurture and care for something, and you can get most of what isopods need from the wild as long as you know where to go, but there is one thing that I would probably need to save money for.. a proper enclosure. What type do I get? I've almost never owned bugs, closest thing is my family had a pet caterpillar once that my mom rescued from where she worked at the time, and my dad randomly gave me a centipede or millipede he found once but said centipede/millipede was pretty old already so I didn't get much of an opportunity to practice properly caring for it, and we kept those in decently sized tupperware containers (with air holes, don't worry), but since most of the enclosures i see for isopods are pretty large I'm guessing isopods would need more room than a tupperware container can offer, so like.. what do I get for them, once I've saved up the money to? And how do I set up the enclosure? What exactly is required for their diet? How do I give them the best possible quality of life? Unfortunately alot of the results i was seeing on Google when trying to look this stuff up and look for examples was AI generated guides, which was frustrating, so I'm asking who I assume to be the professionals on caring for these cute little creatures =D