You’ve done a great job at juggling two crucial aspects of considering isopod husbandry: 1) It’s important not to overthink things; and 2) it is equally vital to consider the basic physiological needs of isopods...both specifically and in general. 👍👍👍

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Russ. You’ve inspired so many over the years so it means a lot coming from you.

I love your shirt!

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly. From Red Bubble. I’m trying to make a conscious effort to only wear shirts in my videos that support either other channels I enjoy or artists whose work I like. Such is the case with this cute like pod shirt

You rock bro. Thanks again Ricky 💃🏼🕺🏼🎸🐈‍⬛😎✌️

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Very kind my friend

I haven’t gotten my first culture yet.. I am new to the hobby, but I’ve started to take notes and started an excel chart taking notes of all of the different species I read about.. I very much enjoy your channel. You’ve taught me a lot and once my sisters of Spring till culture starts to grow I’m gonna get some of those before I ever get my first set of isopods. I absolutely love those animals.

Mr. Biggs, I wanted to comment on a point or two of this video that I enjoyed. But this is a classic video through and through. Outstanding! Your pods look amazing. And thank you for the shoutout.

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much my friend

@SupremeGecko

3 жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist very welcome

@frankdughtank8327

3 жыл бұрын

Whoop Whoop

Thanks for mentioning Wally and Russ. Excellent video quality and excellent discussion. Your videos have me thinking.

Love it Chris, catching some videos before getting some sleep. Love playing around, love the experiments and love learning ♥️ and guess what I love some isopods.. Thanks for sharing.💚♥️🤗🙏

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Mary

Personally, I like to keep fewer species/variants and really focus on those. This also grants more time and space to get way more experimental...

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

These isopod videos are great. I am learning so much.

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Really interesting points. I've noticed that I find more babies where it's more moist and more adults on the dryer side of the culture. Starting to play around with moisture levels in specific sections to see how they behave.

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

I would have to agree 100%

I found a lot of organic gardening amendments apply to isopods. Had some bat guano on hand, and several species love it, but my Cubaris and Nesodillo absolutely devour it. Similarly, I've found a local place that makes organic soil fresh from amendments, worm castings, and biochar. Used that as a primary base for the substrate, and I'll see some eating it outright. Getting some fungal-dominant hardwood compost; introduces a lot of good microbiology for plant health, so curious on effects with isopods.

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more with your methods. Outstanding

I know this vid is old but thanks anyway for this vid and the previous "episode"! 6 months ago (roughly) I got my Panda Kings and I'm pretty sure I've been doing something wrong with them. They haven't reproduced as much as I'm thinking they should be reproducing. And these 2 vids (as well as 1 or 2 others) helped me think of some ideas to try!

Great information.

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

I have often thought a vertical humidity gradient would be better for burrowing spices both reptile and isopod.

@themadaquarist

Жыл бұрын

I agree

Awesome Video

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend

I've had great success in a very large enclosure where I keep 3-400 stick insects for breeding. There is always a high volume of moults on the ground and a high content of live leaf litter that is cut from the branches by the stick insects. The amount of insect droppings is rather large, and the isopods vacuum it up completely.

@themadaquarist

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for the beyond delayed response but to answer your question. Somewhat I doubt there’s much true nutritional value to the molts for the isopods and yes they will aid in breaking down the waste product the isopods nutritional needs would also need to be met

@themantisgarden

Жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist That's where the fish flakes come in ;) And I do the same regarding to the delay haha. KZread doesn't always tell you when someone replies - pain in the neck.

@themadaquarist

Жыл бұрын

@@themantisgarden that should work Fine then just make sure to add supplemental calcium

@themantisgarden

Жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist Been keeping isopods for 38 years lol. They get lashing of cuttelfish ;)

@themadaquarist

Жыл бұрын

@@themantisgarden outstanding

Sweet shirt dude and awesome video we never have ever kept any sort of bugs ever but who knows it does seem pretty fun🤘🤘🤘🤘

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Isopods so incredibly easy to start but very addictive once started

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

We need some more critters!! I'm dreaming of a terrarium right now💚🌿

@marypaigeflynn4512

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Let’s make it happen!

Cool video

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

Ugh it's amazing what you and what I've been learning with your knowledge about different themes of natural stuff that I don't imagine... Thanks for share your knowledge really love your videos...

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

The honour is all mine my friend. Thank you kindly for watching

So many suggestion based on research, thanks so much Sir, ok, i will do it give a bigger and deeper bins, btw, i'm using cocopeat to give deeper substrate for all my armadillidium

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good to me. Always experimenting to find out what works best for you is the most important take away my friend.

Canada wooooooooooooooooo

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Flair in DaHouse!

I keep my rubber ducks in a limestone cave vivarium

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

that sound outstanding....do you have a link to a video or pictures? I would love to see that. How are they doing in this environment ?

Could adding living plants help the health of the culture? Maybe even a simple pothos, since it would intake the ammonia build up? I also just read a study called "UVB-induced Damage and Photoreactivation in the Integument of the Terrestrial Isopod Armadillidium vulgare" That mentions that cell damage in the isopods repairs itself when exposed to visible light through photolyase. So maybe plants and the needed plant light would be the healthiest for the isopods?

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

I love reading such things. Can you share a link with me? As for adding plants reality is a lot of isopods will consume them. Ideally if one were to set up a ‘Vivarium’ months beforehand with hardly fast growing plants etc... then adding the isopods layer it may very well Work. I do have isopods in all my Vivariums

I wish I would have made a video when I had an incredible setup for my isopods. I'm getting started back with isopods again so it's going to take a while to get back to what I had. Basically I had an insane amount of activated carbon and hardwood charcoal. I had small Tupperware containers filled with different environments such as: one of them only had activated carbon and water in it, another one had a mixture of soils and leaves and calcium, The entire bottom was a substrate mixed with a lot of different things including of course activated carbon. I coated the Tupperware containers in hot glue so the isopods could climb it although I found it over time the hot glue would release from the plastic. I put in large pieces of dry rotted wood and large dead maple leaves. I also found that the armadillidium vulgare species like to climb a lot, so I added in a lot of fake aquarium plants, which also included the fake breeding grass meant for guppies.

Your videos are FANTASTIC! I was wondering if you've done any research on the copper needs of isopods? I had never heard about it in any video I watched, but I read a couple research papers that showed copper is super important for them due to their blood make-up (similar to humans and our need for iron). Keep rocking!! 😁✊🏽

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly for the praise and encouraging words. Years ago I did do a fair bit of reading into that very subject. All decapods use copper atoms instead of iron atoms within the haemocyanin molecules of their cells which gives their blood that characteristic colour. A fairly primitive system comparatively but works none the less. Additional supplementation I've never found to be necessary and if done incorrectly can be a death sentence for the animal. Aquatic crustaceans are extremely sensitive to copper toxicity and thus we have to be extremely careful with medications, even fertilizers. Isopods etc... will source enough trace within the leaf litter as it breaks down. You win the award for the week on coolest comment! Thank you for making my day my friend. Cheers!

@GOBIAS.INDUSTRIES.

2 жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist Thank you so much for the response - it's beyond helpful! I tend to overdue it with my pet care (as so many do) and just want to give them EVERYTHING they need 🤣 This helped put my mind at ease with copper.

Okay ,, Wow ... I love your out look on education, I have the similar ideology. I am new to this and I want to learn more about individual animal. I would love to know where I can get some information on their environments and what they makes are. Where would you suggest to start. I have been taken the my kids out to caught and view thing creators at the ponds, park, yard and other place to get the kids excited and exploring. I found you trough Wyllie and his containor video! Thanks in advance!

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

I’m honoured to have you here. Thank you kindly for watching. My daughter Paisley and I go exploring everywhere outside even just in our own yard. I’m in Canada and swift very thing you saw was within ten feet or so of our house in rocks etc.. on the ground, lawn, garden etc... lifting a rock one can be amazed and the amount of life underneath. Even more so in a forest under a log, under some moss. Incredible diversity. Enjoy exploring my friend!

@jodaddysfeederfarm5680

3 жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist Hey Chris Where do you get the background on the different types of Isopods. I would love tp get a full picture of things such as where they are from, the temperature pockets, soil make and as so on. I love that I am not sure if it was in part 1 or part 2 you had mentioned that you put more calcium in the soil because of the iso pods make up. I would like to gain that info, so that I to can " experiment " or "try new things" with these animals. Thanks in advance!

If they live in limestone caves I think it would be logical to include a large limestone Rock for them to climb on. If you can't get a limestone Rock then I would either section off an area and just have a whole bunch of cuddle bones that are sized to allow them to crawl over and between them or to just have a section of nothing but pure calcium carbonate sand which could either be in a tupperware container or just in the corner. I think the purpose that would serve is if the environment is getting acidic through the air then there would be a small amount of the acidity absorbed by the alkaline substance but also if they got an acidic substance on them they could run over to the calcium or limestone area and hopefully take advantage of that to help neutralize it. I guess if I was to raise something like the cubaris species you're talking about, I think I would set up both a dry calcium section and a section that is always containing a mixture of water activated carbon and calcium carbonate so they could essentially take a bath in calcium.

In Brazil never l saw again

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

Isopods are everywhere! Secretly building their underground armies

Wish you’d mention the desired ph for our little friends. Montenegro is coming this week. I have super soil coir based substrate. I have a quart of powdered egg shells but not sure how much ch to add. I have the 25% wet zone on one end going nearly bone dry at the other lots of leaves with a couple piece of bark and sticks all across wall zones. Thinking a narrow line of egg shell powder end to end. Plus pink springtails. Please advise this newb. Thanks again Ricky 💃🏼🕺🏼🎸🪳🐈‍⬛☕️🦎🤷🏼‍♂️

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Again my friend, Not a worry. Isopods are very resilient. Don’t overthink, granted easier to say once one has done it. Pretty much most of the armadilidiums are straight forward with their care. More plant based diet vs porcellios requiring more protein. For your soil or substrate mix think loose loamy forest floor. Coir is fairly stable oh wise so not as concerning as straight peat moss which is very acidic. The addition of crumbled bark be it cleaned sterilized natural bark (hardwoods) or reptile bark sold in any pet store. Charcoal, cypress mulch, leaf litter, long fibre sphagnum moss etc... As for the calcium source ideally mix it all into the mix. If you wish to offer it in a controlled way you can as well. I use calcium carbonate (reptile substrate) as well as each container has a cuttlebone in it. Most Cubaris are far more calcium dependant than most other genera. Moisture is spot on. Never let a portion dry out as isopods are truly crustacean and breath through primitive gills not lungs. They dry out completely they die. Hope this helps you in your path. I have a video on demystifying substrates in my vivarium section that would help answer lore direction questions on the individual components should you wish. Cheers!

👍👊😁🇦🇺

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

🤟🏻🍺🍺🍺🇨🇦

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Where can I learn more about the specific types of isopods and how to care for each type? Can you share some links to videos or websites that will have more information? I am new to this, and I appreciate it!

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of culture differences as much between species more general guidelines per genera. For example Most Armadillidium are kept pretty similar, Porcellio also generally kept a certain way. I do have several videos dealing specifically with isopods, different genera and how they differ in their care. Should you wish to peruse. kzread.info/head/PLyNP94rKF1qHyiGNJ2aKbj1wzhXn-iOrR There’s also a couple other awesome isopod keeper/KZread channels that have great isopod content that i wholeheartedly recommend. Wally kern at supreme gecko Rus Wilson at Aquarimax

@drdebsministryhub101

3 жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist , thanks! I will check them out.

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

@@drdebsministryhub101 I hope You enjoy them. Any questions anytime I’m here

so what to do to make rubber ducks breed the fastest?

@themadaquarist

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly most but not all Cubaris replication rates are not that fast in relation to say Armadillidium or porcellios

I’ve tried to understand this Biggs but for the life of me 🤦🏼‍♂️

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

Biggs doesn’t understand Biggs

@liamwalters5029

3 жыл бұрын

@@themadaquarist bugs in a plastic tub I will never get it 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️😂

@themadaquarist

3 жыл бұрын

@@liamwalters5029 convenient snacks?

Sounds like your telling yourself how to do it listen u r funny really 😂if u listened to yourself say we r serious then switch to fit yourself lol 😝

@themadaquarist

Жыл бұрын

Maybe I am…I’m an old dude… getting the age where I can entertain myself lol