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hey AB, it's been a while! As the weather's been getting warmer I've been heading to all my favorite parks to see my favorite species coming out for the spring. i've had a pretty good first couple of months, finding my lifer Scolopocryptops sexspinosus and other inverts, but as far as...

First off, scolopendis is not a type of centipede. You’re most likely thinking of Scolopendra, which brings me to my second statement, which is that this is not any species of Scolopendra. It’s a Lithobiid, or stone centipede, probably Lithobius forficatus or some other Lithobius species...

Both of my geckos (neither are house geckos I’d wager this could apply to them too) have tried isopods when offered, but QUICKLY lost the taste for them, and have since refused to go anywhere mear their cleanup crew. I’d say house geckos are a reasonable solution

I can say with 100% certainty that the woodlouse you posted is simply stuck in the upper half of its molt, and the dead white shells you’re seeing are probably molts as well. That woodlouse looks like Porcellio scaber and if the other ones are the same species they can and will nibble on...

Yeah, i just keep mine in a plastic bin/bag, and most of those seem like Armadillidium vulgare and Armadillidium nasatum. The orange nasatum are a very nice find!

yes! that’s what you’re looking for posting them in this thread is absolutely fine! i’d love to look at what you’ve got they do, just because any moisture present in/on them will obviously freeze, but i don’t immediately put them in. i’ve already got leaves/bark in my enclosures, so i’m in no...

Okay, so firstly, the white dots on the underside of an isopod’s telson (tail bit) are not sexual organs, nor exclusive to any one species, but are their respiratory organs. They are gills designed to breathe using moisture in the air. Some species have different gill counts, though many have...

Hemiscolopendra marginata. I have no experience with this sp. so hopefully someone else will be able to comment on care. Nice find!

Yeah porcellionides are also pretty protein-hungry. I keep them and offer mine tons of protein as well as ample space, but molting pods still sometimes get cannibalized. They can be brutal

That enclosure seems extremely inadequate for a tree frog, and there seems to be no way to improve it without sacrificing the needs of the millipedes. Springtails were a good addition, but assuming the orange isopods are Porcellio scaber, they are not great tankmates for invertebrates. They tend...

Thanks y’all. don’t know why i even considered leaving it be, my anxiety got the better of me :bag:. Did shoot the guy an email tho, hopefully I can get a refund/replacement (though I don’t know how much I trust the latter).

So, the other day, I went to a local reptile expo and found myself a snake I have wanted for a long, long time. A scaleless corn snake! I handled her out of her deli cup briefly, asked the vendor a LOT of questions and just generally made sure she was in good health before making the purchase...

I think all of them would appreciate it occasionally, but even my big cultures of pruinosus take a while to break down my rosy boa’s feces. I’d imagine the laevis and pruinosus would react more positively, just because they’re usually more vicious than O. asellus

Porcellio laevis ‘Dairy Cow’ are a solid beginner species, and while I’ve not kept them myself they should be kept like most other isopods: a substrate base of soil with bits of rotting leaves/wood mixed in, a top layer of leaf litter, bark hides, moderate humidity, but always offering a...

I don’t see why eggs couldn’t be offered.. OP wasn’t suggesting them as a staple diet, and god knows they eat them in the wild. If anything it would offer some variety, and be quite an enriching experience for the snake

Geez, i gotta get my hands on some spini’s. by “inverse coloration” do you mean yellow head/pleon with a mostly black body? because if so, that’s insane, and i’m requesting pics ASAP

I agree with P. spinicornis for the big yellow guy. they’re awfully pretty, wish i could find some local down in PA. for the other ones, i’m thinking either P. scaber or Trachelipus rathkii. Which of the two it is comes down to how many gill pairs they have on the underside of their pleon (tail...

Yes. As the nomenclature would lead you to believe they are the same species. Powder oranges are just a morph/mutation. They’re both equally hardy, fast, reproductive and love a good bit of humidity. They make great cleanup crews for vertebrate vivariums but have a decent protein requirement...

ask a friend to help name them! some of my best names are not my own. i named my new polymorpha Dirtbike, for some teason, but that’s subject to change.

At that point you’d be looking at any of the South American giants (“gigantea”, “galapagoensis”, “robusta”), who all get above that size consistently. Those are in quotes because the taxonomy behind them is a mess, nothing is what anybody says it is. Besides the point however, Overboard Aquatics...