Which veggies can isopod eat?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I tried celery and had a few deaths. It was rinsed.

 

[Veno Manus]

They eat vegetables!? Healthy little guys haha. I have no idea on that one I've never heard of that. My Androctonus scorpion tried eating a fake plant once and that definitely threw me off. Lol

 

[SpookySpooder]

I fed carrots, rinsed and peeled. They also seemed to be a big fan of shelled hemp seed. Roach chow was one they just vacuumed up. They LOVE bee pollen

 

[Veno Manus]

Well I feel like an idiot I read Spoods instead of Isopods. Guess I gotta slow down. I was like what is this person talking about!? Spiders don't eat vegetables!? Lol woooooow look at my dyslexia go! Hahah

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Well I feel like an idiot I read Spoods instead of Isopods. Guess I gotta slow down. I was like what is this person talking about!? Spiders don't eat vegetables!? Lol woooooow look at my dyslexia go! Hahah

funny misread!
It’s weird I found an old thread and the op fed his celery and they didn’t die like mine.

What should I feed my isopods? Any tips on breeding them?

I'm culturing a colony of isopods to use for cage maintenance, and I'm wondering what I should feed them? They don't seem to like celery much. I keep them in a kritter keeper with lots of ventilation, and I spray it down regularly.

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[The Snailkeeper]

Celery is basically just water and will give them very little nutritional value. Honestly, I think the deaths are a coincidence unless you used non-organic celery. I feed my isopods carrots, sunflower seeds, and peas; sometimes I'll feed them lettuce as a treat but it doesn't have much nutritional value, as it is mostly water in a similar nature to lettuce.

 

[September Rose]

I feed mine zucchini, squash, carrots and algae from my fishtank. I had some parsley growing on my balcony and they enjoyed some of that too!

 

[WhiteMoss]

I've found most isopods will go nuts for cucumbers. Peel and all.

 

[SpookySpooder]

funny misread!
It’s weird I found an old thread and the op fed his celery and they didn’t die like mine.

What should I feed my isopods? Any tips on breeding them?

I'm culturing a colony of isopods to use for cage maintenance, and I'm wondering what I should feed them? They don't seem to like celery much. I keep them in a kritter keeper with lots of ventilation, and I spray it down regularly.

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Maybe chlorine in the tap water?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Maybe chlorine in the tap water?

Unlikely because I filter the tap water maybe the celery wasn’t rinsed off well enough?

 

[SpookySpooder]

It's possible whoever produced it used a pesticide that was worked into the plant itself during growth.

Can't wash that off.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

It's possible whoever produced it used a pesticide that was worked into the plant itself during growth.

Can't wash that off.

Yeh most of it was fed to roaches and mealworms none died must just a bad peice loaded with pesticides as you guessed.

 

[Kada]

It's possible whoever produced it used a pesticide that was worked into the plant itself during growth.

Can't wash that off.

This. Some sprays do indeed enter the fruit/vegetable below the skin. If you feed the base of something like celery, gravity works its magic and all the spray settles down to the base and concentrates in the cracks. One of the reasons we buy organic for certain crops. Brassica, celery, lettuces etc.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

This. Some sprays do indeed enter the fruit/vegetable below the skinny. If you fee the base of something like celery, gravity works its magic and all the spray settles down to the base and concentrates in the cracks. One of the reasons we buy organic for certain crops. Brassica, celery, lettuces etc.

Organic is really expensive only specialty stores have it I only had a regular, which could be why the isopods died.

 

[Kada]

If you live near forests/wild areas that aren't sprayed you can probably easily find wild foods. They should have lots of leaves, wood etc anyway.

However I guess depending on how many you have you may still have to buy it. Expensive or not, it's the keepers responsibility. Probably 1 organic Carrot is only 1 or 2 dollars and you can cut into pieces and freeze the Unused parts for later. Probably cost pennies a week unless you have loads of isopods. I have maybe 200 isopods and one large Carrot lasts a month. All the other food is free.

Alternatively, you could grow a few simple veggies in a pot. Easy, fast, cheap and chemical free

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

If you live near forests/wild areas that aren't sprayed you can probably easily find wild foods. They should have lots of leaves, wood etc anyway.

However I guess depending on how many you have you may still have to buy it. Expensive or not, it's the keepers responsibility. Probably 1 organic Carrot is only 1 or 2 dollars and you can cut into prices and freeze the Un used part. Probably cost pennies a week unless you have loads of isopods

only have pill bugs left And the small ones might have died or borrowed.

Iso pods , pill bugs!

You can have air vents from substrate to ceiling. Air vents in the substrate will aerate the substrate (at a lesser rate) and release humidity into the air. The baby’s(little white pill bugs) will escape I can’t use vents that low but I can still cross ventilate the lid + the rim of the lid...

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