jack90274
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2017
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- 29
Hello,
Due to quarantine, I have started to look at my isopod set ups again. My dwarf white isopods have a steady colony of about 200-300 (a guess) isopods in a large Lee’s critter keeper which I have sealed all of the air slits to prevent fungus gnats from getting in and to prevent moisture from escaping. I have a macro camera and I was looking around in the soil when I found what looked like roots going side to side in the enclosure. I am absolutely baffled to what they might be, since I haven’t introduced microbial spores or plants intentionally. They aren’t roots because there is nothing above the surface. Whatever this may be, it seems to be completely subterranean. If anyone could identify this, that would be awesome. Also there is a little white bug that at first appeared to be a spring tail, but upon further inspection was indeed not a springtail and I haven’t been able to identify it as of now. If anyone could help with that, that would be awesome too!
I wish I could show a scale of this, but to give you an idea, what appears to be little rocks are actually pieces of extremely fine grain sand, mixed into the substrate.
i cannot properly explain how incredibly microscopic this animal is. It is way beyond what the human eye can see, so I imagine that there are thousands of them in the substrate. If anyone can identify them, that would be awesome, as they are mind-numbingly small. Again, what appears to be a large rock underneath this interesting little invertebrate is indeed a single grit of sand. This animal is so So so small.
thanks
-Jack
Due to quarantine, I have started to look at my isopod set ups again. My dwarf white isopods have a steady colony of about 200-300 (a guess) isopods in a large Lee’s critter keeper which I have sealed all of the air slits to prevent fungus gnats from getting in and to prevent moisture from escaping. I have a macro camera and I was looking around in the soil when I found what looked like roots going side to side in the enclosure. I am absolutely baffled to what they might be, since I haven’t introduced microbial spores or plants intentionally. They aren’t roots because there is nothing above the surface. Whatever this may be, it seems to be completely subterranean. If anyone could identify this, that would be awesome. Also there is a little white bug that at first appeared to be a spring tail, but upon further inspection was indeed not a springtail and I haven’t been able to identify it as of now. If anyone could help with that, that would be awesome too!
I wish I could show a scale of this, but to give you an idea, what appears to be little rocks are actually pieces of extremely fine grain sand, mixed into the substrate.
i cannot properly explain how incredibly microscopic this animal is. It is way beyond what the human eye can see, so I imagine that there are thousands of them in the substrate. If anyone can identify them, that would be awesome, as they are mind-numbingly small. Again, what appears to be a large rock underneath this interesting little invertebrate is indeed a single grit of sand. This animal is so So so small.
thanks
-Jack