Late last year I found some of S. Florida's tiny Schizomida whiptail scorpions and brought one home to my isopod enclosure. She still poking around in there!
Just a tiny wild dog with the usual number of legs, running at the feet of African elephants (also with the usual number of legs)🥹
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Real question: years ago I made an isopod-quarium by accident (leaves, detritus, plants, water, and food chucked in a tank and left alone) and I loved them, but I feel like there's got to be a more structured/logical/knowledgable way to do it.
Are there resources or a community you know of?
I’m (perhaps unnecessarily) disdainful of terrariums with isopods in them. they are greedy little beasts that eat everything and pile their feces sky-high if you feed them like you should. I much prefer to keep my plants and isopods separate; both will be happier like that
the lab i used to teach had isopod colonies for one demonstration. it was a plastic box with soil. we added beets and potatoes every couple months (leftovers from other demos). it was surprising to me that they could thrive in just a box of wet dirt and rotten beets
