Isopods play essential roles in agriculture and horticulture, decomposing organic material to provide nutrients-rich soil amendments. Their ability to consume insect larvae reduces pesticide usage significantly. Isopods also serve as effective bioindicators highlighting ecosystem health as well as social impacts across Earth’s diverse environments; furthermore their unique biological and genetic traits make them interesting research subjects which help further progress across fields as diverse as ecology and medicine.
Our Pods
Isopods are fascinating crustaceans. As detritivores (consumers of dead organic material), they play a vital role in soil decomposition and fertility. Isopods typically live in leaf litter, under wood & rock structures and other damp environments in nature.
Porcellio hoffmannseggi’s orange morph is among the most breathtaking isopod found in hobby settings, and should be appreciated in person to fully appreciate its stunning hue and almost metallic flecks on its dorsal surface. Like most Armadillidium species, this isopod prefers plenty of ventilation and somewhat damp hide environments, yet also thrives well in humid terrarium environments; making an excellent ‘cleanup crew’ isopod for bioactive environments.
This Old World species commonly known as pillbugs, roly-polys or woodlice can form into a ball to protect its gills from drying out. As an herbivore, scavenger and omnivore that sometimes chews living plants; its underside has tail-like appendages which push into dewdrops, funneling water directly to its gills.
Breeding
No matter if you keep reptiles, fish or inverts, maintaining an established population of isopods (also known as rolly pollies, pill bugs and sowbugs) in your vivarium is key to its health and maintaining biodiversity. Isopods will assist by managing animal wastes, pathogens and pests like mites while breaking down organic waste into forms more readily used by plants & mycorrhizal fungi.
Isopods are detritivores, commonly found in leaf litter and under wood and rocks in nature. While these creatures will eat whatever is available to them, their favourite meal seems to be dead insects with exoskeletons attached – which makes sense since these critters feed off of exoskeletons for sustenance!
Male isopods often ride their female counterparts in order to deposit their semen as close as possible to them, which will then result in copulation very quickly once she sheds half her exoskeleton and become receptive for further molts which could be caused by increases in humidity, food availability, or changes in environmental factors.
Care
Isopods are an invaluable asset to pet reptile enthusiasts. Not only can they keep a reptile’s environment cleaner by eating leftover food and debris such as leaf litter, fungus slime mold or dead insects – iscopods also play an invaluable role in agricultural and horticultural industries as a valuable way of controlling snail pests!
There are over 5,000 species of land-dwelling isopods, from woodlice to aquatic sea slaters. All terrestrial isopods belong to the crustacea family (more closely related to lobsters and crabs than insects), possess jointed legs with hard exoskeletons, segmented bodies and breathe through gills on the undersides of their abdomens.
Isopods are easy to care for and thrive under most conditions. Our isopods receive small feedings of Repashy Morning Wood or Bug Burger 1-3X per week depending on their colony size; this provides ample calcium intake as well as various vitamins & minerals. Orange Isopods are color variants of Porcellionides Pruinosus; however they remain equally hardy as their wild-type counterparts.
Isopods for sale
Isopods for sale can add life and character to your reptile terrarium, from beginners to advanced breeders alike. There’s something here that suits all levels of experience from novice breeder through expert cultivator.
Isopoda members include crustaceans with rigid, segmented exoskeletons. They possess two antennae, seven jointted limbs on their thorax, and five branching appendages on their abdomen; some may even possess parasitic capabilities! Their ecosystem can range from aquatic (Asellota) or terrestrial environments like Woodlice (Porinosus) as they feed either herbivorously, omnivorously, or carnivorously while some species even make use of parasitic hosts to survive their environments!
Postpods is a UK-based isopod breeding business known for producing top quality animals with painstaking care during breeding processes and shipping them all around the globe with great consideration to ensure they arrive safe in peak condition. Click here or visit our official website to buy isopods.
Postpods offer an incredible variety of ispods for sale uk, such as springtails, dairy cows, dwarf species and armadillidids – as well as various colors and variations within many of these species. Furthermore, these isopods serve as excellent clean up crew and ground police in terrariums by efficiently breaking down waste food and plant materials into humus, which prevents mite growth while keeping substrate healthy.