Couple of cool finds

[H. laoticus]

 

[OrdoMallus]

Hats awesome! I've heard of yellow and other coloured isopods but I've never seen any besides white. The ones I raise are just straight brown or solid grey colour.

 

[The Spider Faery]

You found some colourful critters.

 

[zonbonzovi]

That isopod looks like one from the iridovirus thread...neat!

I think that soil 'pede is Strigamia. Nice

 

[DawnW]

I love that little isopod! Very cool find

 

[Bugs In Cyberspace]

I see lots of those yellow spotted Armadillidium vulgare here, close, but never yellow to quite that degree. It would be great if somebody would selectively breed them into yellow marbles.

This is the yellowest one I've ever collected:

 

[H. laoticus]

I saw a couple of the ones you posted while I was herping, Bugs In Cyberspace. I wasn't hunting for them specifically, just happened to flip a nice yellow colored one. I might just take what you said and find/breed them for fun since they are so cool looking

 

[AbraxasComplex]

I find yellowish ones all the time. I also found some orange morph sowbugs yesterday which I plan to breed. Perhaps I should also do so with the "gold dust" pillbugs I keep finding.

 

[ArachnidSentinl]

Awesome! :clap:

 

[J Morningstar]

I have a small bunch with a series of whiteish yellow spots down their backs I'm trying to breed I'll get pics soon!

 

[ErinM31]

The combination bright yellow and black on that isopod is quite stunning! I would love to have a colony of those!

 

[Hisserdude]

The combination bright yellow and black on that isopod is quite stunning! I would love to have a colony of those!

I had a few of these stunning individuals in my colony before it crashed a few years ago, since then I have not been able to breed this species, no matter how I try.

 

[ErinM31]

Do you mean you are unable to obtain individuals with this coloration or those that you have will not breed successfully? If the latter, I wonder if out-crossing with wild-type would help?

 

[Hisserdude]

Do you mean you are unable to obtain individuals with this coloration or those that you have will not breed successfully? If the latter, I wonder if out-crossing with wild-type would help?

No, I can't get ANY A.vulgare to breed successfully. Don't know why. However I do have a few that seem to be doing well in my mixed isopod cage meant for predatory rove beetles.

 

[ErinM31]

No, I can't get ANY A.vulgare to breed successfully. Don't know why. However I do have a few that seem to be doing well in my mixed isopod cage meant for predatory rove beetles.

Bummer! I hope you figure it out! I am new to the hobby. Thus far, I have only bred feeder insects, if it can be called that -- more like keeping an infestation under control!

 

[Hisserdude]

Bummer! I hope you figure it out! I am new to the hobby. Thus far, I have only bred feeder insects, if it can be called that -- more like keeping an infestation under control!

Yeah, I got a bunch of other isopod species that are doing just fine, but for some reason that species doesn't like me...

Yeah, that's why I have shied away from keeping lots of the feeder roaches, I don't have room for huge roach bins right now!

 

[Aquarimax]

I see lots of those yellow spotted Armadillidium vulgare here, close, but never yellow to quite that degree. It would be great if somebody would selectively breed them into yellow marbles.

This is the yellowest one I've ever collected:

Hi Peter, @Bugs In Cyberspace
(I'm Rus, the shrimp/millipede/isopod guy by the way)
It so happens that I have been working on just such a project! Here is a larger pic of the isopod in my avatar:

I have collected several high yellow individuals. They have produced a lot of young, and I've seen some evidence that the yellow is coming through...I won't really know for a while. We'll see if I manage to get a good strain isolated within a few years. I know that a few others are working on similar projects. I wish us all success, so we can bring them into the hobby.

 

[Aquarimax]

Excellent find! I hope you are planning on breeding it. : ) As I mentioned in another post on this thread, I am working on breeding a strain like that from some similar individuals.

 

[Hisserdude]

Hi Peter, @Bugs In Cyberspace
(I'm Rus, the shrimp/millipede/isopod guy by the way)
It so happens that I have been working on just such a project! Here is a larger pic of the isopod in my avatar:

I have collected several high yellow individuals. They have produced a lot of young, and I've seen some evidence that the yellow is coming through...I won't really know for a while. We'll see if I manage to get a good strain isolated within a few years. I know that a few others are working on similar projects. I wish us all success, so we can bring them into the hobby.

Cool, glad they are breeding for you! Too bad the offspring can take two years to mature...

 

[Aquarimax]

Cool, glad they are breeding for you! Too bad the offspring can take two years to mature...

Yep, it will be a while, hopefully it goes well!