This was just supposed to be like a fun little thing we did for a week or two and then I had planned to do plants in here but my 5 year old is invested now. She calls them her friends. We have had them about 2 months. They are surviving in I believe a 2 gallon jar and off of sprouts growing and decaying from the humidity in the jar, the bark from twigs off the plum trees and betta pellets. I didn’t know they were going to have a hundred babies in this time frame. Then I read they live for 2 to 5 years. Will the population contain itself based on food? I don’t know what I’m doing and didn’t plan on this being long term. Also these aren’t the cute little Rollie Pollies I remember as a kid that would roll into a little ball when you picked them up. They are flat and fast and they freak me out a little bit. I’m not trying to have to upgrade these dang things to a bigger space. 😆 I thought about putting some in my tortoise enclosure.
puppysoop
Yes a little isopod dictator should begin a campaign within the coming months
Eggshmegg1469
Also sorry I didn’t realize when I posted all the background noise.
Bloodshot321
Let them have fun and feed them SOME scraps
qazinus
Yes, but only if they dont all die. Keeping isopods in a jar is way harder than keeping them in bins.
Id recommend having normal bin setups going first, then taking a subset of the colony on a display jar. The ones in the bin can serve as backup in case of messup
xamayax1741
Completely unrelated to the topic of the post, but not to the video, what’s the name of the song?
lojaktaliaferro
Is there a reason nobody is suggesting releasing some into the wild? I’m sure they’d manage to get along somehow 🙂
yaths17
I would like to thank isopods for keeping my soil breathable.
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This was just supposed to be like a fun little thing we did for a week or two and then I had planned to do plants in here but my 5 year old is invested now. She calls them her friends. We have had them about 2 months. They are surviving in I believe a 2 gallon jar and off of sprouts growing and decaying from the humidity in the jar, the bark from twigs off the plum trees and betta pellets. I didn’t know they were going to have a hundred babies in this time frame. Then I read they live for 2 to 5 years. Will the population contain itself based on food? I don’t know what I’m doing and didn’t plan on this being long term. Also these aren’t the cute little Rollie Pollies I remember as a kid that would roll into a little ball when you picked them up. They are flat and fast and they freak me out a little bit. I’m not trying to have to upgrade these dang things to a bigger space. 😆 I thought about putting some in my tortoise enclosure.
Yes a little isopod dictator should begin a campaign within the coming months
Also sorry I didn’t realize when I posted all the background noise.
Let them have fun and feed them SOME scraps
Yes, but only if they dont all die.
Keeping isopods in a jar is way harder than keeping them in bins.
Id recommend having normal bin setups going first, then taking a subset of the colony on a display jar.
The ones in the bin can serve as backup in case of messup
Completely unrelated to the topic of the post, but not to the video, what’s the name of the song?
Is there a reason nobody is suggesting releasing some into the wild? I’m sure they’d manage to get along somehow 🙂
I would like to thank isopods for keeping my soil breathable.