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Powdery blues, Porcellionides spp. can sometimes look orangish when their waxy outer layer is worn off. They're also lighter in color when young. Here's a picture of some. But they also come in an orange morph so it's possible. Keep an eye on it as it grows.

You forgot the picture so I can't tell you what it is but I can tell you now that it's not a baby velvet ant. Like all wasps and ants, velvet ants have distinct larva and pupa stages. So a baby velvet ant would look something like this: http://bugguide.net/node/view/94613/bgpage

I used to have a video of this, but sadly lost it when my phone's SD card died. An american roach got into my house one spring. I swatted it and while there was no obvious external damage I must have broken something because it could only move it's front 2 legs. I dropped it in my P. scaber...

When I was a kid I had some hermit crabs living in a laundry sink for about 2 years. The sink was tilted, and I left water at one corner but would drain and refill it each day (from the tap but we had well water instead of city water) and I fed them baby carrots and apple slices. Then one day...

Personally I'd get the P. ornatus high yellows. But both are on my want list.

I'm not sure on the species, but I'd say genus Hypercompe is a good place to start.

Letting the wood dry out completely should eliminate most termites as well.

I just recently learned that A. vulgare "Orange Vigor" exist and now I'm seeing pictures of them everywhere. I'm so jealous, cant wait until I can get some new isopod breeds myself.

I'd also wait until warmer weather, but Cecropia caterpillars do have a pretty wide range of host plants. Some are even evergreen, like Photinia × fraseri. Which is a fairly common landscape plant around here.

To expand on what Hisserdude said, I don't worry about seeing a dead Armadillidium. They don't seem to eat their dead very rapidly, or sometimes not at all. Same goes for Philoscia muscorum. Mine seem to eat the heads and legs off their dead comrades, but leave the shells. Trachelipus...

That's a nice yellow P. muscorum. I found a similar one last year that produced some yellow babies, but they all darkened as they grew. I'm hoping some more yellows might appear in the next generation.

They look like Porcellio scaber to me.

Oh man you've got several species I've been trying to find. Can I ask where you got the Porcellio bolivari? I wasn't aware anyone in the US had them yet!

See if you can find some of the cool European isopods! I've love to see Porcellio bolivari or Porcellio haasi make it into the US. Edit: Sorry, I just saw you aren't in the US.

Seconding P. scaber for fast reproductive rates. My first F1 cross between the orange and dalmatian color morphs was born April 8th, 2015. I'm sure on that date because I had just the one female by herself in the container and was checking her daily to see when her eggs hatched. I saw the...

Mine are also in a container with a tight fitting lid, but it sits on top of my other containers. Haven't had any teleportations yet, but I do have some striped springtails that started out in one container and have since turned up in several others.

Yes, it can be tricky isolating a color morph in isopods because the females can store sperm for months. I had the same problem with my orange dalmatians because some of them had already mated before I managed to separate them from their siblings and they kept throwing other colors. And the...

I love these threads. I've posted a lot of these pics before but some are new, here goes! Porcellio scaber 'Orange' Porcellio scaber 'Dalmatian' Porcellio scaber 'Orange Dalmatian' Porcellio scaber 'Mixed' - These are the leftovers from breeding the Orange Dalmatian strain, and produce...

Most don't. But I do have a population of flat-back millipedes that live in my Dieffenbachia planter. Not technically 'in captivity' I suppose but they do spend almost half the year in my kitchen. I don't usually see them unless the soil gets too dry, then they start wandering. You're right...

I've never kept sea slaters myself but I've heard from people who do that they do well with a rocky substrate and require a dish of salty water to dip their gills in. As for food I'd try algae wafers, since that's probably the closest you'll get to seaweed nutritionally. If that doesn't work...