How to Care for Isopods!
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- Today we talk about housing, feeding, and maintaining isopods to set you up for success!
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💡Okay idea time! This might be a cool idea for the retail side of your zoo. Consider putting QR code’s next to items or pets, the QR code’s can link to your care videos on TH-cam. So if someone is considering purchasing a new pet, they can just scan the code right there and see your care video for accurate information. It may help!
Great idea
That's a super good idea!!!
Yeah! This is a really good idea, especially for people who impulse buy, which sucks that people impulse buy reptiles but a QR code is a really good idea
Dang that's a yes from me. Do the QR codes.
Thanks guys! Hopefully Emily and Ed see this ❤️
My dad walked into my room when I was watching the 'Meet All Our Isopods" and he said "Why do they have so many rollie pollies?"🤣🤣😂
Omg tysm for all the likes! Its the most I have ever gotten!😂
@@lydia.mcmenamyyy5365 no problem my weird friend
@@dragonx4225 I am not mature one bit!
@@lydia.mcmenamyyy5365 lol , am very immature, and clumsy I ran into a door one time and my arm ran into the doornob
My cousin jumped into a rose bush because he wanted to ‘smell the thorns’
Found an isopod crawling around on my stairs today. Guess I'm now living in a bio-active enclosure.
😆 funny!
i feel you dude i keep finding them in my room
Same found one in my bathroom so. Guess this is their house now.
I love potato bugs
@@yesipan probably there is mould in your sink
I actually keep isopods and springtails in my greenhouse! A few years back, when I built my greenhouse, the high humidity inside caused a lot of mold and mushroom growth among my plants, but now my little bugs take care if that for me!
i grow mirogreens i was thinking of using this to prevent pest my self
oh my gosh I was having an issue with mold growing around my plants thank you for mentioning this! I'll definitely be trying it out!
Emily: “isopods”
Me: *rollie pollie*
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@chrome dinosaur 👌
@@oopsallbugs :)
YeS
@@Skrillo7510 lol
One of the things I really like about you guys, is how much effort you put into giving even your feeders and substrate creatures the best living arrangements possible.
That’s nice 🙂
Chara from undertale?
Well unless you want your culture to fail and the colony to die.
I think isopods are an excellent "first pet" as well! Much less work than fish, rodents or reptile species-but absolutely help teach responsibility! They are also amazingly budget friendly vs other animal start ups
I am disabled (adhd) and would love to have pet isopods someday! Also, a whole community means less grieving bc death is a part of life, and hey, you still have isopods! Not sure if i explained this well but i wanted to share
I as a mom appreciate your videos! My son recently has gotten super into Holy molys (that's what he calls them) and started keeping an basic little incloseure. Well my mother in law is getting him zebras dalmatian and orange smoothies and a better set up for his birthday in a few weeks, so your videos are good for me and him so that he knows how to properly take care of them
Love that y'all encourage him ❤
Andy and Ollie the isopods. Still a better love story than twilight.
I agree
Yes
bobs burgers ref!! andy and ollie are twins!
@@suhweenuh aww a platonic love story then
Always has been
I'm buying isopods later tonight. Uploading during my lunch break- you could NOT have had better timing!
Good luck!
@@Toxic2T thank you!
wow the exact same thing happened to me!
Good isopods are great pets you can also feed them carrots in small bits peeled and washed u came do the same with apples hope you have fun with them
@@sonny_b3587 thank you! I'm actually buying them to put in my new bioactive enclosure I made for my crestie! Of course, since I had a logical reason to convince my mom to buy more bugs, I'll also be keeping some as pets :)
I’d definitely like to see a video for springtails as well. I want to eventually switch all of my animals to bioactive so anything on that topic would be awesome!
I'm very interested in a video that would explain how to setup a small bioactive habitat for my corn snake. And exactly how many spring tails are recommended.
Ditto. Is making a bioactive environment for my first snake and was advised to have both Isopods and Springtails
It’s not a matter of how many springtails you have.
If you buy a starter culture and tip some into your enclosure they will multiply in there within weeks if the conditions are good.
This is perfect timing! I've been wanting to get pet isopods ever since I learned about their maternal behaviour and how cute fancy isopods' colours can be.
Is this anyone else’s favorite YT channel!?
Yes
@@Wilmathedragon I agree
Yes :)
Yes
One of meh favorites
Let’s be real..70% of us don’t own a reptile..because our parents say ew,but we think it’s still interesting and literally LIVE for the facility updates . :)
Literally me
Don't want reptiles mostly because I think they are gross, but I've been living vicariously through SD for years now.
Don't worry, you won't be a kid forever ;) Mom can't stop me now from having all the pets.
Yasssssss
I wait for every facility update every day!
Repashy makes a food mix specifically for detritivores as well called “Morning Wood” but basically any of their food mixes are good for isopods, they can eat fresh food as well, mine enjoy occasionally eating bits of carrot or zucchini
It's called Morning Wood??? Omfg 😂😂😂
@@bclairelarr Lmao ikr! I had to do a double take when I saw the name xD
Ive been considering keeping isopods for a while now, so this just makes me want them even more! (I would also like to see not just a springtails care video, but some hognose, rat snake, etc. care videos too!)
I'm so glad you made this video! I've been having trouble keeping my isopods alive, and I couldn't figure out why. I'll try a thicker leaf litter to keep them safe :)
Hey :) also check out aquarium pets and supreme gecko youtube channels. They have a lot of great isopod videos and more in depth care guides for different species. :) there are some great fb groups too! I hope this helps in your journey to care for you isopods :) they are a lot of fun to keep.
@@eviehankins8223 Thank you! I'll give them a go - I could definitely use the help.
Ed purposely handing Emily the mistyped sticker only to whip out the correct one was one of the highlights of this episode.
Thank you for adding celsius degrees in editing as well! ❤ one google search from Ed/Emily literally saves thousands of people searching the same thing over and over again. Greetings from northern Europe!
Thank you! As a relatively new person to the naturalistic side of the reptile hobby (~2 ish years in to natural setups, but have had reptiles my whole life) I really appreciate the detailed explanation on how to keep these guys. I have had a lot of trouble previously with my colonies disappearing because I was given some bad advice in the beginning. I am currently trying again following the advice in this vid and hope to have better results 🤞🏼
i’m so excited to move out, i’ve already got this amazing bio active enclosure planned out!! y’all have given me so much inspiration, i’m so excited to give a rescued reptile a good home 🥺💗💗
Take me with youuuuuuu lol. That’s awesome though!! Congratulations and enjoy ☺️
@@ohrats731 let’s do it ! you can help me pick out a cute snakey 💗💗
11 months later! Can you give us an update on your new reptile friend? If you moved out and got one.
ROLY-POLIES! I used to play with them when I was little. I didn’t know you could have them as pets. The ones we have in Florida were just a really pretty silver color. I would love to know the genus name for them.
I know this is a year later, but they might have been Armadillidium Vulgare, those are the ones in my backyard
Thank you for the information.
I was working near my compost piles and found a huge amount of isopods of two kinds, one that rolls up and one that doesn't. So I half filled a container with the material they were living in and added a dozen of each. I ordered food and now I'm learning all I can about them.
I'll probably end up collecting every terrestrial variety I can. They are quite relaxing to watch.
What timing! I just upgraded my corn snakes habitat with The Bio Dude's kit. The isopods arrived on Saturday. Of course I watched all of your videos on bio active and cleaner bugs before I ordered the bugs. I got spring tails first, added plants, then the isopods and finally a humidifier yesterday. Nagini loves his new setup and so do I. Thank you so much for all the information you supply. By the way I've had Nagini for 8 years.
Snake discovery: how to care for isopods
Me who is never planing on having or feeding isopods
Same 😂
But I watch it anyway. Cause snake discovery
@@doorknob8121 who doesn’t
I am 😂
Well I don’t think they’re good feeders
Have you considered adding crushed eggshell to your substrate mix? It's a great source of calcium and some trace proteins that isopods go nuts for (I also add some fish food on the odd occasion as a supplemental feed since they do benefit from protein based foodstuffs and do seek it out naturally)
Emily and ed you guys are truly amazing and inspiring keep doing what you love stay safe and healthy 💖
Thank you guys for such an awesome video on isopod care! This is just what I needed as I am starting to keep these for cleanup crew 🙌🏽 I for one would LOVE to see a care video for springtails ♥️
I always love when you guys talk about costs for buying isopods and springtails...my brain is like "don't you just go to the forrest and pick them up?"
I guess not everyone used to work in a soil entomology lab FULL of bins of springtails, isopods, cockroaches, and the occasional confused salamander.
Also some people live in the middle of dense cities with very few true bits of nature
Glad to see the orange and dalmatian ones again, they were my absolute favorite in the last video. We dont have any other pets right now, hoping to adopt a snake this year. Im thinking a culture of isopods would be perfect. My kids already have a little "roly poly house" going on outside. They would love this.
This is crazy. I just recently had a two hour conversation about isopods with someone, just totally out of the blue. Now I think the world wants me to get some because I keep seeing stuff about them!
I started raising isopods last fall and theyre breeding like crazy!! I’m amazed!
Great to see some isopod love getting out there! My Biology students are always equal parts amazed and freaked out to see them and learn I just grab them from a few steps outside the classroom.
Emily: Isopod
Me, an intellectual: L A N D S H R I M P
God, I love those orange and white ones.
lava one´s are my favourite
@@jamiecrucefix4078 I love those too. I plan on getting some isopods this spring or in the summer (whenever I can find some lol) and lavas are on my list.
I do to!
It's a land isopod
S H R I M P
YES Springtails video!!!
Also, literally the "what, where, when" BLEW MY MIND!
Yes! Please do Springtails! I am wanting to start culturing them myself for my mantis enclosures especially since I am adding a new enclosure hopefully soon.
This brought back happy memories, of when I was at my senior school ( in the UK) I was a member of the entermology club, run by our biology teacher, I love looking after the reptiles, isopods, Beatles, and we also had chinchillas, quite a collection. Great video thanks 💖💖😊
I'd love a how-to on keeping springtails! My colony always ends up getting gnats (i think because I overfeed them)
Very cool! I'm setting up new isopod colonies this very morning. Have 6 new types on the way. A few tips: It's better not to mist the tanks, but instead por water against the side in the moist area only (the one side that is padded heavily with sphagnum moss), this gives them a humidity gradient. The cork bark lasts longer, but that's because they don't enjoy eating it as much, punky oak wood and things like that will feed them better. If you don't have good wood to add (like I don't since I'm in the desert) you can buy bags of wood pellets used for bbqs. Get them wet and they'll turn to mush that you can mix in and it gives them lots to eat. You can also ferment the wood pellets to turn into rotting wood (which is their preference), but it takes about a month and yeast, look for recipes online. Never give your isopods pine, cedar, yew, or other wood or leaves from resinous and potent-smelling woods.
You can set isopods up in aquariums if you want to watch them better. I did it for my Dairy Cows, Calicos, and Zebras, while my P. laevis Orange and Giant Canyons went into Exo-Terras, and my Scaber Lottery Mix went into my ball python's bioactive enclosure. They are all doing great (I need to do update videos to add to my colony-building videos), but the aquariums are heavy to move regularly (mine are on a rack where I have to lift them out to water) and I had some Orange escapees from their Exo-Terra. Today I'm doing storage bins just because I have so many different types.
If someone is interested in isopods, they can easily start with just finding them outside under planters and putting them in a spare container inside with some dirt and leaves. No need to buy anything if you can't afford them. Use some clean, dry, and crushed eggshells for calcium, add some fish pellets regularly and they're very easy to keep. Check out Aquarimax for so much good information on raising isopods.
Thak you for making this! i have roughly 16 of these guys, all of them a nice grey colour. all leaves i use come from a huge oak tree in my backyard.
Perfect timing!!! I just got some dairy cow isopods ❤️
;o
That is the type I started on... Be careful!... it can be addicting lol. I have 23+ now
@@jenniferg.3857 that's awesome! I'm definitely fighting the urge to splurge on several different species lol
Lava ones are awesome 👌
They aren't too shy, active and have beeeautiful colors. They are a bit more than the average scaber, but well worth it!
@@jenniferg.3857 Thanks for the recommendation!! I love the look of them 😍
I am terrified of literally everything you own as a pet. I mean EVERYTHING but I want to get over my fear plus its fascinating to watch and learn about all of them
If you’re scared of snakes and reptiles how did you find this channel? I’m just being generally curious cause I don’t remember when I found snake discovery or what I was looking for specifically it just kinda happened.
This is probably the perfect channel then. Emily is great at showing how scary pets are really not so bad. It's better to watch them through a video too, so youre not in actual danger and can just focus on how cool the animal is, and not how scared you are.
@@lemonshark4961 Exactly
@@geckogingie probably just popped up, I'm terrified of spiders but one day a popular tarantula keeper popped up on my reccomened because they were growing as a channel and TH-cam most likely just pushed his channel out randomly so I started watching him, watching people care for things you find creepy is a great way to get over fears, I'm a little less scared of spiders now, even if I'm still very skittish around them. Just a speculation tho, obvi I'm not the person lolol
@@geckogingie CHEYENNE!?!?!?!??!! :O
This gave me the best idea for my 4 year old who absolutely loves digging in the dirt and finding these bugs. He was just playing with them until they passed (I wasn't fond of the thought either) so I was trying to come up with another solution. Now he can keep his little creatures in a plastic bin I made up for him and they won't die!
I live in Indiana so we have a small variety too! I didn't know there were different species and I got to show Xander that some of them were silver gray, some had yellow spots and some were milky with brown. He absolutely loved it
Thank you so much! I've been taking care of Powder orange for my Leopard Gecko & Bearded dragin bioactive enclosures. They seem to do well. But the carrot shavings I was feeding them seemed to attract a lot of fungas gnats. I added some springtails & that seemed to work out great. I'll try repashy for sure! But it seems like the idopods gave exhausted all of the leaf litter, I added some southern palm leaves, that they really seem to enjoy & mix up the substrate once it starts to seperate.
Very informative video! 😎👍
When I started my isopod collection, I use containers and poked small holes in them for ventilation... Then I noticed that fungus gnats were making their way into the containers through the drilled holes and the lid area (tiny gap between the lid and actual container).
So I got rid of those containers and now have 23+ different kinds of isopods in air tight sealed containers; haven't had an issue with fungus gnats since!
I dont worry about lack of oxygen because I literally open the containers almost everyday (I Love watching them and seeing how each culture is doing).
So the point i am trying to make is: Regular tupperware containers work just fine, and there is very little/to no chance of those pesky gnats getting in there and laying larva. (And yes, even my cubaris species do fine as well) 😎
But do your own research and see what kind of set-up works best for your situation!
Me: "Whats it called??"
Emily: "SNAKE DISCOVERY AWESOME MIX!!!!"
Absolutely amazing video! I need this for a school terrarium project
The year is 2022 and the channel has just been rebranded to Isopod Discovery
I’ve always been so interested in the springtails!! I would love a video on them :)
Can't believe I'm so early omg! I have a bunch of isopods and adore them, hopefully this'll help me better their care!
We just got our first culture of springtails. I would love to see a video on how to care for them!
I love your videos. They are so fun and educational! 🐍🦎🐢❤️
I have a large houseplant next to my desk at my office, with a nice colony of decomposers, including two varieties of isopod. (Rolly ones, and non-rolly ones.) I didn't have to buy anything, these are just wild ones that wandered into the office from outside, and I drop them in the plant when I find them. The colony also has millipedes, rove beetles, and I'm sure some springtails. There are occasional gnats, but I keep a cup of soapy sugar water sitting next to the plant, and the gnats will pretty quickly drown themselves, so I never have too big of a problem. The colony has been going for years, and they breed at least once a year, so all appears well with them.
Half of the pot has a thick layer of assorted leaf litter and bark, and the other half of the pot is open soil, where I drop bits of my lunch leftovers, to see what they prefer. They ignore onions entirely, don't really care for walnuts, and one of their favorite things appears to be cheese shreds. Unless I can get them Kousa Dogwood fruit, they will ignore everything else if I am able to get that for them. They've been great fun to watch over the years.
Gecko: oooooOoOoo
Isopod:skert
8:06 reptiles have such beautiful eyes! When they stare at you like that you just melt a little bit inside! Also thanks for the video i've been waiting for that one for a while! ❤
He was a cutie. Haha
Love this! Kept some of these guys for a while. Surprisingly enjoyable.
Thanks for the help ive had a colony of woodlice for almost 2 years
Emily shares the pet peeve of every science major: Species are never capitalized. That gets engraved in your brain forever
I have been transcribing and digitalising labels from museum pieces. Between mising labels, faded labels, terrible handwriting, Chinese, Arabic and Russian letters, and outdated species names, wrong capitalisation is one of your last problems.
@@laartje24 why did you type the same reply twice but with another word in the second one
@@sharkbitesback2749 That's weird, I didn't. I wrote a reply, wanted to clarify something so I clicked edit, corrected it send it. Believe me I would not go through the effort of typing that twice XD Let me see if I can fix it.
@@laartje24 huh, thats weird
@@laartje24 I suspect the horrible handwriting in other languages is probably just writing.
In our own languages we can write insanely sloppily and the word is still implied because we have a natural understanding of the writing(motions of the hand and shape of the word, not just letters). When working with other people's languages, the same isn't true, and a series of vaguely precise squiggles and a dash doesn't get automatically processed as the word it represents.
Hey Snakediscovery, do you know where I can get the type of mites that live on hissing cockroaches to keep them clean? I have six of the little mold factories in my ball python's bioactive viv
i seriously love isopods. i set up my second glass terrarium and i find myself sitting there on a stool watching the little critters! there fascinating btw i got 10 powder oranges and they are awesome i cant wait for them to breed. 😊😛🤟
Yes plz do a vid for springtails! I garden and keep houseplants in humid Austin, TX, and I’m constantly fighting mold and fungus gnats, even when I have the moisture level perfect for my plants. Cinnamon helps with the gnats, but I’d love an organic option for the mold!
Emily teaching kids what a Isopod is: “ It’s called an Isopod “
Kids” Isopod! “
5 year -old Me: “ ROLLIE POLLIE! “ 😂
I saw someone wearing a snake discovery shirt yesterday and it just made me so happy like,
Me: sneke?
Shirt: I love the noodles
I LOVE woodlice!! I’ve never seen orange ones before, and I had no idea they could be kept as pets!!
I just got a new pet isopod from my garden and i loved this vid cause it taught me stuff to take care of it. If you keep them as pets then just remember their very fragile and somehow dont take fall damage 🤔
@@DarkShadow_2013I used to collect these as a toddler, putting them into my pockets- much to my Mothers horror.! I’ve always loved the little cuties.
This was very helpful. I felt bad for some of the wild common louses on my cement front steps and I wanted to give them shelter until the winter is over cause they got rained on yesterday and today and weren't really moving. So I wanted to give them a winter home basically.
Normally id leave wild animals be but I have a soft spot for these and I felt bad just leaving them there-
I had a set up from another thing before hand and its ready for them. I just wanted to know what they can eat, what they need and the like
I'll release them once the winter ends and then look into getting one of the species featured here!
Please do springtails! I keep them for my mourning geckos and I'd love to learn more tips!
I've been very curious about spring tails. Hopefully by summer I'll have my first snake and I want to do a bio active enclosure
This was very helpful I wanted to start my own culture of isopods because I’m obsessed with things like millipedes and isopods (and I have a ivory millipede) so thank very much for making this and I will check out your leaf video.
There is littoral tons of isopods in my back garden there really easy to find this video helped my terrarium thanks 👍
I really love ur channel even though I don’t have a reptile so I decided if I do I will name one Emily and the other Ed
I would love to see a video on springtails. I'm actually looking to swap to bioactive enclosures for my reptiles but my husband is concerned that springtails would escape.
An escaped springtail is a dead springtail - they can't survive in a house, they need moisture. And even if they somehow managed to survive, they wouldn't cause any harm, they'd only eat dirt and mold.
I'd not really thought of isopods before.
I have springtails for my tarantulas. Well I got new tank for my crested gecko & set it up bio active.
I got dwarf speckled isopods to be a clean up crew with the springtails.
Well have I not fell in love with the pods, they are so adorable. I now watch substrate for ages to see the little guys appear from under leaf litter. They are fascinating. I put left over pangea feeding cup on ground & they come eat it.
Now I want some different species for pets, maybe dairy cows.
I'd love rubber duckies but they cost a lot here in the UK xx
Me: *Is not planning to ever get isopods whatsoever*
Also me: *Hmmm... interesting*
Hey Emily! I am donating a water bowl that my ball python outgrew to y'all for either zoo or personal use!
Very informative video, thank you! I just started with a few powder mix isopods, but eventually I’d like to keep more expensive ones. I’d even like to make a setup with just some wild isopods that show up in the summer, and see how they do.
Isopods are my favorite lil critters, they're so cute, I'd always let them crawl on my hands. Seeing different species is awesome.
You should make a video where you set up the big isopod enclosure :0
Hope your friend is recovering ( the one whom you had to pick his reptiles)
Isopods are just really great animals, lovely to take care of.
Thanks to you guys I started reading the wings of fire and I am really enjoying it thanks
Isopods are great when you have 50 until one day you realize it's now about 500 🤣
Would you ever consider selling isopods online. Id love to get some of your "Lava" Isopods.
Drove by the new zoo and it's looking amazing I can't wait till it's open.
Liked this video as soon as you talked about ‘Genus species’ Uppercase lowercase 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Emily and Ed : “ Ico “
Me: “Ico”
Emily and ed: “pods”
Me: “pods “
Emily and Ed: “now say it altogether! , isopods! “
Me : “ rollY PoLlieS :D !”
Thanks for the likes!
Has anyone noticed that on the background when you see Emily talking there is a ditto in the background xD
Informative and fun to watch. Always look forward to your videos.
You guys are the Martha Stewart of the reptile world. I mean that with the utmost respect. You don’t miss a beat , so impressed
I will repeat what I said in the last isopod vid
You guys should really make a isopod t-shirt that says “there’s no use crying over spilled milk-back” with a carton of milk that has milk back isopods pouring out of it
Emily: upset about a capitol letter
Me: upset that Dalmatian is spelt wrong 😭
Jesus, I thought I was the only one who saw it!
When I was a kid, I figured out how to keep isopods by trial and error outdoors in an unused planter box. This care guide is very close to how I kept mine. They lived in organic potting soil, they got fed fresh-picked tree leaves every other day, and got misted every other day in the summer. (This was in the San Francisco Bay area, so it was cool and wet the rest of the year.) I had a culture that was probably a good 50-80 mature adults with 2 generations born in it. Unfortunately the ants found it and massacred all my isopods. I never had the heart to start it back up again after that.
I'm glad to see these underrated dislplay pets gaining awareness. It's really cool to watch their social behavior and see the babies grow up.
Thankyou for a wonderfully informative video. I found your video very comprehensive and well delivered in every sense.
Im researching to keep them in my hermit crab tank as well as a host colony as pets 😀 Also looking into springtails, epsecially after you mentioned they eat knat eggs, will happily be seeding them into all my inside plants for summer heat. Knats are such a persistant pest destorying my fruit within days and i very much appreciate a natural control.
a springtail care video would be amazing!
I love my isopods. Great video 😊
Yes! Springtail video, please! I actually commented a few months ago about wanting a springtail care video. 😊
Before I found this channel, I used to be pretty scared of snakes and everything like that, but now that I’ve watched you play with the snakes and feed them, I’ve started to really like them. Thank you
Brilliant video and you make it really easy to understand 👏
THANKS FOR THE CARE GUIDE IT WOULD HELP ME TAKE OF MY ISOPODS
I love how you guys love all animals 💕
Thanks very much for the tips on reducing fungus knats! They are in one of my roach enclosures so I will get more spring-tails in there and lay-off the cat/fish food :)
I have found both the rolling and flat isopods where I live a lot under leaf litter, so it may be interesting to get a container for them and use that to help recycle some leftover stuff
If I ever have too many I could release them if I get them from around my home as well