#pet isopod

[pueppielein]

Local wild isopods

@identifying-isopods-in-posts please if you want to help me identify them, I think they are porcellio scabers? Thank you 🎑

[deepfriedsharkbites]

The Creature and his beautiful son sharing a delightful and delicious patch of moss together

Cultivated Porcellionides pruinosus

[bluvioletbird]

A. vulgare found literally right outside our apartment door while taking the trash out. I thought one of our gestroi had escaped somehow lol! Got little guy set up with some food and I'm gonna see how they get on

[rat-tailed-maggot-drone-fly]

Ooooo prettyyyyy

[itsdetachable]

This orange isopod really likes this spot, I see them there pretty often

[shrimpapalooza]

Got some Mixed Fruit Jellybeans today! They're St. Lucia Isopods (Armidillidium Vulgare) ans they naturally breed in a variety of colors.

Got them from Isopod Depot, 10+2 and all arrived alive. Let's hope they do well

[takemetotheastralagain]

For people not in the isopod community I made:

1. If you want to see pod pictures feel free to ask!

2. MY COOLEST ISOPOD IS CURRENTLY GIVING BIRTH I PICKED HER UP TO CHECK AND THERES BABIES COMING OUT!!!!!!!! EPIC

FOUND!!!! LOOK AT THE PATTERN ON THIS BEAUTY I FOUND HER OUTSIDE!!!! This is either the pregnant one or her sister who I found first they’re very identical but I definitely have two separate but identical pods

[kai-herondale]

Welcome to my new pet, illi the isopod! She arrived in my home by fate on a violet plant yesterday. @onenicebugperday has helpfully IDed her as Philoscia muscorum.

I found this really comprehensive care sheet:

I have set her up in a tupperware with holes poked in it filled with some leaf litter i collected at my local park, which i know to be pesticide free, so she should be happy now!

I'm hoping to get some other native buddies for her soon, but for now she can settle in. i can imagine being sent in the mail might be slightly traumatic!