Different Isopod Species and Iridovirus

[Smokehound714]

How long is the longest you've kept a specimen alive for? Have you grown up young without removing the adults which normally eat them?

I was actually breeding them for use as live bait, They grew very fast. Some of the older ligia occidentalis got to be 3 cm long, excluding antennae and uropods. They made fantastic bait.

They actually have a decent lifespan, some of mine got to be older than 2 years. They did require maintenance though, simply mixing aquarium salt to the appropriate levels for any marine fish was sufficient, aside from that, they're very easily reared so long as you have a couple of marine cascade filters. Easy to feed, too.. they'll eat ANYTHING. The adults generally ignored the young, but many did get cannibalized during molts.