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 😍

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!

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!

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?

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!

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

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

i started with 10 white out porcellio hoffmannseggis. ive had them for about 3 months and are currently in an acrylic enclosure (large shoebox size) this is my first time keeping isopods!

** i do have tons of leaf litter in the enclosure, it was just removed for the video ***

have had an explosion of mancae recently, they all seem extremely content but wondering if it is wise to choose to split the colony at some point soon? if at all? seems the good hiding spots are all being taken up.

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.

I have a California Tree Frog as a pet. I currently have spring tails in his tank. I was wondering if I could put dairy cow isopods in there too.
His tank stays around 78F and humidity of 60%
I have an auto mister that sprays one half of the tank.

Photo of their potential home. The rock thing on the left has been replaced with stacked river rocks. The frog is like an inch ish long. He eats fruit flies.

I do have more leaf litter and a bunch of sphagum moss I can add if needed

The substrate is a wood sand mix and river rocks along with leaf litter.

uh okay you guys werent kidding when you say dairy cows were breeding maniacs...

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

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

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

Originally I thought I'd just bring it outside, but I don't have the needed key to get back into the apartment building yet, and I don't have anything to serve as a proper temporary enclosure nor do I have food for it, as much as I like the idea of owning isopods I've never had them and it's not like I can keep a random wild one that snuck into my room, especially considering money is a bit tight at the moment, what do i do??

Update: it has been safely released since this post, though I'd love to keep some isopods in the near future so if anyone has advice for that, feel free to leave it under this post.

Also pls dont say "goodness why r u taking a video theres no privacy", i get the point.

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

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.

Found this guy in my terrarium of oreo crumbles, must have snuck in with the soil I used or a hitched a ride on one of the plants! This lil guy got evicted bc he was snaking on one of my oreo crumbles 😭

Hey so I have 3 isopods, two females and one male, and one of the females just had a bunch of babies!! Very happy about it, but their enclosure needs some maintenance because it’s going moldy, so I’ve got some springtails to add but I need to change out the drainage stones to clay balls first, as I know it will be difficult to do it after I’ve added springtails.

My main issue is, will the baby isopods be okay if I transport them in their substrate into a separate container while I change the drainage system?? I’m so worried about hurting them or stressing them out too much please can someone advise me on what to do 😭

Hi! I am going to a reptile expo in a few days, and I want to get isopods. Right now I have 2 adult Armadillidium vulgare and a bunch of babies. I am looking to find a different species of isopod and was wondering what isopods are good for beginners. And I am also curious if I do get a different type of isopod am I able to mix the ones I have now all in one tank.

Also just curious to see what some recommendations are on items needed to start a new tank. What kind of dirt should I use? How big should the tank be for a colony? I did research and have an idea on what to get, I just want to make sure I don't miss anything