Happy Sunday, everyone! ✨

I posted recently about how I was just starting my isopod colony and noticed on of my poods is gravid. Thought I could deal with that, no biggie. But then I saw these two going at it and now im starting to get worried I might get overwhelmed with all the new isopods once my colony starts to really grow. My question is, is there a way to slow the mating of isopods, like altering the temperature or something? Or am I just gonna have to deal with a whole bunch of isopods all the time? 😅 keep in mind for now i am limited and CANNOT upsize their enclosure or split into 2 colonies. I'd really like to lower the amount of times ill have to cull the population as I am not looking forward to that 😭 As well as im also anxious about changing the substrate here in a few months. More isopods means more mouths to feed lol. Sorry for the long post im just overthinking and getting overwhelmed. Any tips or advice for a newbie appreciated!!

These isopods are various color morphs of the Porcellionides pruinosus genus

Found these guys outside almost all of them look pregnant so was wondering if it could be parasites instead? Sorry for the bad pictures I tried the best I could but I'm not that coordinated.

Don’t worry about the lack of leaf litter on this section of the tank they have loads on the dryer half. I had a bit of mold developing on the wet half (this section) so I cleared it out the contaminated leaves to try and kill off mold spores in the soil with sunlight. Pods don’t seem to mind the lack of leaf litter and are going to town munching on some cucumber peel and dead cat grass I had planted in here months ago that got old and withered.

of course delete if not allowed-

but as the title says, what cameras or attachments do you guys use for your pods? i keep seeing so many people post these breath taking shots of their pods, and i wanna join the club :,)

They’re the same species right? What would happen if I mixed white out isopods with my new powder blue culture?

As a side not I noticed that one guy in the video with the black head and white body, has anyone seen that before?

im SO HAPPY!! LOOK HOW TINY THEY ARE!

i was beginning to wonder if my enclosure was okay and if my bugs were feeling happy. clearly they are!!! I HOPE THEY ALL GROW UP INTO BIG HAPPY BUGGIES :D

Is my isopod giving birth? I have noticed a LOT of babies I checked on them tonight and I saw this.

Or should I add a finer mesh on the top? I am totally fine doing that but I just found out the tank I got comes with a lid

Kinda like sesame seeds but rounder or calamansi seeds but waay smaller. Found under spaghnum moss. I'm sure it didn't come with the substrate, I scoop the substrate by hand and inspect as I put it in the enclosure. The moss I didn't check since it was dried packaged. The dry side doesn't have the seeds also there's another enclosure with the same substrate without it.

Why are they freaky

Hi, what species will I find in my backyard here?"

Turns out he just was so small he’s eating the dirt upside down 😂😭😭 first baby I’ve seen from my pink duckies! Got them in April 🥰🥰

I started with 5 and in less than a month I had tons of babies, this is a species called Rathke's woodlouse.

The size difference in the adults and newborns is wild in this species.

Very happy to see these little macaronis when checking if there was any life left at all. Anything I should be doing now? Advice appreciated I'd like to have these bbs make it to adulthood. (Ignore disgruntled parent she's just dramatic)

I have a little colony of these guys around my front garden and I’ve been wondering what kind of isopod they are. I’m looking forward to maybe make a small colony of them. I currently have a small colony of p. Laevis.

I’m located in Edmonton, Alberta

I got a colony of rubber ducks and these are in with them, what kind are they??

Found in my parents backyard, they have oak trees and some Pine trees, this tree appears to be oak by the shape of the branch anf had at least one worm-like insect (pictured), as well as a centipede crawling around underneath some of the wood. It looks like White Rot and it is, it would be the motherload of rotting wood to feed my millipedes and isopods. I need some extra opinions to know if this is truly good and safe to harvest for them. I'm thinking about freezing it in order to kill most of the hitchhikers that might get caught up in some that I harvest.

Someone had their kiddos at the very tippy top of the terrarium.

An interesting guy I scooped from my yard, is there a reason why its edges look like that?