Can too many isopods be bad?

[redrumpslump]

Alright I started out with 2 adult isopods in my avic bicegoi enclosure and was doing some maintaince today and noticed that there was probaly 20-30 baby isopods running around. This may be a dumb question but can too many isopods cause problems for my tarantula. Thanks for the help guys.

Matt

 

[jayefbe]

How big is the enclosure?

 

[JC]

This may be a dumb question but can too many isopods cause problems for my tarantula. Thanks for the help guys.

Matt

No..........

 

[John Apple]

never noticed any problems...heck I have seen isopode on the abdomen of my larger sp....they do not seem bothered by them at all....I have even seen them on shedding spiders without any problems at all.
They kinda remind me of remoras relationship with sharks

 

[redrumpslump]

Alright I figured it was ok but would rather be safe than sorry

 

[Exo]

My A.genic eats isopods, so there is never an overabundance for me....

 

[pouchedrat]

Yeah usually I encourage as many as possible, since most of mine stay well below the dirt anyway.

 

[cacoseraph]

too much of anything can be bad. even water, vitamins, and air


if you have enough isos and somethign tweaks them and kills more than the remaining can eat... obligatory recaging


if you have enough isos for them to be constantly shifting around in the tara's burrow or hide i imagine the tara might eventually get forced out



of course, for those kind of scenarios you would have to have a pretty silly amount of isos in there

 

[Arachnoholic420]

Alright I started out with 2 adult isopods in my avic bicegoi enclosure and was doing some maintaince today and noticed that there was probaly 20-30 baby isopods running around. This may be a dumb question but can too many isopods cause problems for my tarantula. Thanks for the help guys.

Matt

seperate them and then use them on your other T enclosure's.... thats how i would solve this issue... imo

peace
Armando

 

[Cirith Ungol]

If your spider constantly eats them they might be bad... as isopods are extremely good at eating things that contain heavy metals, which then in turn gather in their bodies. However, it's questionable how big a source of heavy metals there is in your tank in the first place, also what concentrations of heavy metals would be bad for the spider. So this is such a big what if question that the only safe thing to say is - probably better too little than too much.

 

[cacoseraph]

If your spider constantly eats them they might be bad... as isopods are extremely good at eating things that contain heavy metals, which then in turn gather in their bodies. However, it's questionable how big a source of heavy metals there is in your tank in the first place, also what concentrations of heavy metals would be bad for the spider. So this is such a big what if question that the only safe thing to say is - probably better too little than too much.

but i sort of recall heavy metals are not metabolizable and tend to collect in fatty tissues and stuff.... and our little friends sometimes have MANY years to collect them in

interesting thinking, Cirith