isopod eating earthworm?

[squidkid]

so i put some earthworms into my bipalium cage as food and one of the giant canyon isopods started chewing on one. it took it a minute to pin the worm down but he must've been pretty hungry, i've never heard of isopods going after live prey. i unfortunately didn't think to take any pics

 

[Aquarimax]

Giant canyon isopods are voracious. One dart frog keeper I know told me that he saw them coming up out of the leaf litter and grabbing live fruit flies he was feeding to his frogs. :wideyed: They go through leaf litter faster than many other species in my collection.
If they’re hungry enough, I can believe they would go after love earthworms.

 

[Galapoheros]

I avoid keeping the bigger Scabers with other inverts.

 

[chanda]

Yeah, those things are voracious! I wanted to use them as cleaner crews in cages that aren't moist enough for some of the more common dwarf species, but they'll eat smaller inverts (I'm pretty sure they devoured all my baby millipedes) - and they really chow down on immobile things like beetle pupae or insect eggs! I had to pull them out of most of my cages. The only enclosures that still have them are my African white spot assassins and my giant cave roaches. The white spots eat them - and the roaches are too big for them to bother.

 

[squidkid]

it was probably a 3 inch worm