Great guide Mike, for anybody reading this it is also important to provide them with a source of Calcium, which all Isopod species need to grow and maintain their exoskeleton.

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

I knew I was missing something! Whoops!

@cooliipie

7 жыл бұрын

pin this

@darthcrusadus8682

6 жыл бұрын

what should i add for calcium?

@rebecca1191

3 жыл бұрын

Darth Crusadus I’m late whoops and you’ve probably found it by now but I’m going to use almonds and kale 🤷🏻‍♀️

When you were pouring the water into the containers your cats face was hilarious.

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

hahah it was!!!

Aw man I went out and got a shaved cat before you said I don't need it!

@bassafratz

6 жыл бұрын

Christywoowoo ARE YOU STILL ALIIIIIIIIIIVE?!!!!!!?????!

@williamdavis9471

5 жыл бұрын

Christywoowoo what the fuck

Mold is fine and not really a problem since isopods eat mold.

@fatnoot5428

3 жыл бұрын

springtails do, not isopods

@mpk6664

3 жыл бұрын

@@fatnoot5428 Isopods will eat mold. Just not as readily as springtails.

@MikeTytula

2 жыл бұрын

True

@wolf-kissedrosie69

Жыл бұрын

@@fatnoot5428 Well, from what I've read, neither one of them eat mold.

I'm gonna try keeping them! Thanks for the help!

Isopods needs cleaner crews too, not only by themselves.. So for my setup, i would just add a bunch of springtails in there as well to prevent fungus and mold outbreaks, while the Isopods themselves aim for the solids.. One thing I've noticed about the playing possum very shy dwarf white Isopods by experience is that they tend to cover more ground foraging for food when springtails are around.. They will not more around much when springtails are not around. I do put springtails in all of my Isopod cultures to aid in biogrowth more efficiently btw..

@MikeTytula

6 жыл бұрын

That is a solid tip! Thanks! :)

hey man great vid just wanted to know if I could do a bio active setup for a crestie and add a waterfall to it

Who doesn't like a shaved cat? lol 1:34

This was uploaded on my birthday! Thx Mike!

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

happy birthday!

@gunnartribelhorn

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Tytula Thank you man!

Wish we had reptile expos over here it would make life so much easier btw love your vids keep up the amazing work

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Where are you???

@kyleedwards4571

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Tytula I'm from England

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Space BaconGaming I'm sure you do!

good vid bro I like your cats eyes

Rember when I asked you about is it ok to take my chameleon out to clean his cage it went perfect got hissed at but it was smoother than I thought

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

good!

Could I keep isopods on the substrate I find them

Great vid once again Mike, will defiantly have a go at breeding Isopods. I've been wanting to grow orchids for a bit and I didn't know if you can take cuttings if so could you, or any one who sees this and knows, say how and where thanks a lot and keep up the good videos

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Depends on the orchid!

Thanks for the great video :)

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Would love to see your daily maintenance routine :) 'A day in the life of Mike'

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

It's coming this weekend!

delicious wild food too, even for humans if you get enough, protein etc for sure. Good supplement.

@creaturesaroundme

6 жыл бұрын

Kraller sure, they taste great.

what kind of isopods are best as tank janitors but safe enough to be eaten by a crested gecko

I could get used to these everyday videos !!

@dontsubscribe1373

8 жыл бұрын

Who couldn't!!

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

haha I wish I could continue everyday!!

@salqs17

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula are these safe for Chinese water dragons cause I'll do it with mine

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

Mikey Gifford They are safe

Great informational video! I was wondering if there is anything that Rantiomeya's can eat aside from fly larva?

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Fruit flies!

@Luke-cp2jz

8 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula anything else? crickets or something. if not, how much are the average container of larva?

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Albino Tortoise Springtails, bean bettles and depends where you are

@Luke-cp2jz

8 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula Ah ok, thanks as always

can you grow isopods and springtails together? the springtails could eat the mold of the food that the isopods couldnt keeping it clean, or?

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

It can happen yes, but honestly the springtails can out compete the isopods over time. So I recommend keeping them separate

you earned a sub

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Nice video!

Great video Mike :) i'll be using custodians in my bio leo setups when i make them.

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake's Reptiles bioactiveherps.co.uk/ Go to place for us in the UK. Tarron is a super helpful guy.

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Nice sense of community!

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

For sure bro !

@JakeHockley

8 жыл бұрын

+Shane Ye Shane I've been speaking to him for a while and I've asked him a load of questions which he doesn't fail to answer :)

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

Awesome mate, same here actually haha !

Is there any need to put more Isopods and springtails in a bioactive setup over time or will they self sustain and breed? Btw May Madness is sweeet!

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

+charlie ince That will depend on conditions and levels of predation, you will need to monitor it for a couple of months.

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Shane pretty much nailed it!

@charlieince8772

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Tytula okay, thanks guys :)

im kind of new to these pillbugs but how do you find them I live in germany and the freezing tempatures are hard all I find a slugs and worms a centipedes

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

You would have to order them.

Can u do this with the isopod outside

@DragonUdo

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, there is no real reason to buy isopods unless you just really want a certain kind ie. Dalmatian or zebra or whatever :)

High quality fish food? They will eat anything, why waste money on high quality fish food?

Mike, my isopod environment (first try) now has ants. Any advice?

@MikeTytula

3 жыл бұрын

I would restart the culture. I'm not really sure how to get rid of them without killing the isopods

Could I just use top soil? Or just it be coconut core?

@MikeTytula

2 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend both.

Can you use isopods in a mangrove monitors cage

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Ya you should be able too!

what are they used for in the reptile hobby??

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Feeders and clean up crew!

What is the schedule when you come out of May madness

@elliot8087

8 жыл бұрын

I think he uploads whenever he can and wants

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Ya there is no real schedule probably 2-3 times a week

@Diamondreptiles

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Tytula cool

You’re making this much harder than it needs to be. 😂 I go outside and fill a plastic tub with their natural substrate add some rotting wood. Then I throw my composite in it. I check for anything that may mold and remove it.

@MikeTytula

3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough, just no attempt at any sanitary measures scares me.

if i add these in a juvenile water monitors cage, with they eat the S**T so i wont have to clean it up?

@omarsreptiles6442

8 жыл бұрын

yes

How often do you have to add Isopods to your Dart Frog tanks?

@elliot8087

8 жыл бұрын

I think he puts them in every dart frog tank very good cleaners no need to clean it up

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

Depends on if they are breeding or not?

My giant oranges get whatever veg my GALS get (it's q bio active tank), prawn and shrimp heads/shells (raw), including the brains which they eat, they will eat every part of a prawn/shrimp, soaked cat biscuits (perina one, coz GALS love those), calcium powder deposited in all the little crevices of their cork log (sometimes needs replenishing daily), cuttlefish broken up near the areas they live (in a 200l vintage juwel), GALS eggs (I can't help that, I've tried saving some but by the time I've noticed they've already ate them, snail eggs are big favourite of the little isopods, defrosted bloodworm, they'll also eat the snails soaked oats/porridge too & woodchip under the cork log that rots away & is eaten and it's needed replenishing 3 times in 7 months, keep woodchips far out the way of snails but mopani wood is safe for snails to munch on. If insufficient calcium is provided they will attack others and kill them I've noticed, which is why I started depositing the calcium powder in many more places, they isopods are literally everywhere in there. They'll eat their dead anyway but they will also attack if in need on calcium. And they're constantly growing so need a lot of it, they'll eat they're molts as well, and I thinks it's adorable when they carry bits of food back home. Some burrow, others use the moapi and burrow in the coco noire under that and many more live within and under the cork log and then there's another group who live under the aspen, and another group to are in buried egg cartons (non bleached as they'll eat that too).

@MikeTytula

Жыл бұрын

Thats a ton of great information! Thanks for sharing your process! I think the keeping of isopods has come a long way in the past few years :)

@gemsaint1485

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeTytula I've got 30 years experience with isopods (any bug or mammals tbf), I just shared some experience over the last several months with one species lol 😆 I was born and raised in a private zoo, which had everything. My rubber duckies are a different kettle of fish, they're a lot more delicate and I have to remove the prawn brains before they'll have a nibble. Just so u know, not all cardboard is safe, if the cardboard u use has a gap between two pieces and it looks like it's fused, then it is and they fuse it with glue. Might I recommend unbleached egg cartons or use the germination ones (plant growers put germinated seeds in these then pots and it'll break down as it's roots grow through it, forgot their proper name), cardboard really isn't recommend because the factories that make them use other chemical and hazardous materials, egg carton production does not use any chemicals or hazardous material in their factories, they can't, because food for human consumption (eggs) will be sat in them. Cardboard also has a lot a glue within in. Brown paper is fine. Just not cardboard. U should of read this in a book tho tbf. Good luck with ur channel ♡

@MikeTytula

Жыл бұрын

@@gemsaint1485 Cheers! We dont have any cultures still running, they are only in a bunch of our tanks. I appreciate the feedback though. Being raise in a private zoo sounds awesome!

some cats like water

are they cool with centipedes?

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine centipede would eat these

Are these safe FOR every dart frog / lizzard?

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

+Csgo Latte 100% safe, harmless, helpful creatures.

@elliot8087

8 жыл бұрын

They have no poison and will not bite your animals pure prey and helpers no worry

@mattthompson4284

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

For a beginner your pretty good

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

haha what's that mean??

Are wild isopods safe?

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

+Californian Reptile (C_Reptiles) That will depend on where they are from, natural woodland yes, if from your garden, wait for the babies to be safe, isopods can accumulate high levels of metals from wild diets in urban areas.

could I breed these for bearded dragons?

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

They don't really produce fast enough

@OutdoorsAndBotanical

7 жыл бұрын

ok. but I was gonna use them as a treat once and a while. would they be good for them? I wouldn't need a lot for treats.

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

Outdoors And Botanical They would be fine ya

@OutdoorsAndBotanical

7 жыл бұрын

ok Great thanks!

@rellewilson7814

5 жыл бұрын

I have a couple cultures for my bearded dragon dawrf white, powdered blue, Spanish orange, and giant canyon, also pink springtails. They all were cultured and transported to the tanks every 3 months. The ones that dont get picked off breeds in the terrarium just fine. Just give them a few seed pods and a half burried cork tube and they will make themselves at home very quickly

would adult lepoards and african fat tailed geckos eat them?

@MikeTytula

6 жыл бұрын

You could feed them I suppose

can i do this with wild ones

@MikeTytula

3 жыл бұрын

You can!`

@ethanlunning9501

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeTytula ok thanks i have a spotted salamander

@MikeTytula

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

Damn man your lucky, starting up my own little reptile collection myself still a bummer you can't get a snake tho

@elliot8087

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Tytula ask if you can get a species of sand boa and tell them it will never try to get out because it's an ambush predator and also it buries so they'll never see it

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

I have no interest in a sandboa lol

im going on a vacation and can not go on a reptile expo on saturday and im so sad

@thebandochannel

8 жыл бұрын

:(

@dontsubscribe1373

8 жыл бұрын

:(

@omarsreptiles6442

8 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry there are aways others

@rabbit0664

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you got a chance

yo i have that blanket thats crazy ive never seen anyone else with it(ik im way off topic)

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

The spider man blanket? haha

@haydengreene3672

4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeTytula yes

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

Hell ya haha

@haydengreene3672

4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeTytula if u dont have that blanket anymore I cry

I thought they eat mold?

@MikeTytula

6 жыл бұрын

THe springtails do, the Isopods don't really

oh the joke that could be made about not needing to have a shaved..... cat :D I love your cat btw, he reminds me of one I used to have that was a stray I taught to trust humans.. He was WAY bigger though, his head couldn't even fit in my hand and his feet were huge.. unfortunately someone hit him with a baseball bat or something and shattered one of his hind thighs and animal control had to take him because we couldn't afford to take him to the vet to get him fixed...

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

That is a terrible story :/ sorry to hear man

If you're lucky. Sometimes you can get High Yellow individuals

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that sounds awesome

I'm getting a baby beardie on June 4!!!😁😄😁😄It would mean soooo much to me if you could maybe do a video of needed dragon care and tank setup for may madness.Thank you and like if you have a reptile🐍🦂🐢🐛🐊☘🌳🌿🌱🍀🍃

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

I don't own one so I won't! Sorry bud!

can you use cardboard from the toilet paper?

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

I don't use any cardboard anymore, but not because you want the corrugated cardboard

@Mariofredx

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula ok thanks

They eat cardboard?

@MikeTytula

3 жыл бұрын

They like to hide in the cardboard but they will slowly break it down over time.

does banana skin work?

isnt the purpose of isopods is to eat molds?

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

Springtails are the ones that eat the mould

@3M2Kcanadavlogs

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula so what does isopods do?

@MikeTytula

4 жыл бұрын

Recycle the larger waste, and organic waste in the tank

@3M2Kcanadavlogs

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Tytula but can they be feed to a sling?

Are these things like some snail species, meaning that the population over time will explode?

@TheJdawg1276

7 жыл бұрын

Justice Banken yes

@danielr7644

6 жыл бұрын

aloa snakbar

wouldn't they end up overpopulating in a big lizards tank as they won't eat them

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

+ChelseaGunners They tend to balance out and inhabit the more moist areas, it rarely becomes a population concern. If it did they are totally harmless, very nutritious (packed with calcium) and easily harvested and removed by just tapping the rock or bark they gather together on inside an extra tub or similar.

@ChelseaGunners

8 жыл бұрын

+Shane yes but big lizards dont eat them do they

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

Generally speaking no, depending on the species of isopod and lizard of course. Even still, they wont ever become a danger if never eaten. Easy to control numbers due to how they group together in predictable areas.

@ChelseaGunners

8 жыл бұрын

+Shane ye I guess i was just wondering as if they overpopulated theyre small enough to climb through the glass out of the viv

@Zuxeh

8 жыл бұрын

They will tend to avoid doing things like that if conditions are correct within the viv, either way they dessicate (dry out) and die quickly without the moisture they need to breath. They could never infest the average house.

shit load of isopods in my house honestly lol

@MikeTytula

8 жыл бұрын

That's weird haha

......they explode!?

i have like million isopods in my backyard

@MikeTytula

7 жыл бұрын

You might be unless you live in a tropical environment they will likely die in a vivarium

Why the fuck are you doing that on your bed?

@MikeTytula

6 жыл бұрын

Why not?

second comment :D

you should talk slower

@MikeTytula

Жыл бұрын

haha