Collecting isopods for enclosures

[regalpaws]

Hey Im new to this section, but I have some jumping spider enclosures that have dirt and plants in since I like to go the more naturalistic route. Anyways, Im wanting to make them a bit more bioactive. Can I collect some isopods from my garden and quarantine them for awhile and add them? Thx!

 

[Eagle555 Jumping spiders]

Hey Im new to this section, but I have some jumping spider enclosures that have dirt and plants in since I like to go the more naturalistic route. Anyways, Im wanting to make them a bit more bioactive. Can I collect some isopods from my garden and quarantine them for awhile and add them? Thx!

Hey so I do do that for my jumpers and it seems to work really well to keep the enclosures clean!

 

[regalpaws]

SWEET Im so excited, thanks! Plus who doesnt like isopods theyre adorable

 

[Smotzer]

If your collecting Armadillidium from the garden they will eat the plants you have in there, so I wouldn’t use any Armadillidium spp in a tank with plants. I learned the hard way.

 

[regalpaws]

If your collecting Armadillidium from the garden they will eat the plants you have in there, so I wouldn’t use any Armadillidium spp in a tank with plants. I learned the hard way.

Wow! Thanks so much! I always have live plants,one of my other obsessions
lol
Is there a kind that you would recommend that would do well with the live plants?

 

[Jonathan6303]

Just use micro pods or springtails. Springtails will probably show anyways eventually