Wild isopods okay to keep?

[Venomous Fang]

i found some wild isopods in my backyard and I want to know if they’re okay to keep or not I’m not putting them in any other terrarium they’ll just be by themselves so is it okay to keep them?

 

[Aquarimax]

i found some wild isopods in my backyard and I want to know if they’re okay to keep or not I’m not putting them in any other terrarium they’ll just be by themselves so is it okay to keep them?

They should be fine then. I would recommend keeping them in sanitized substrate, just to prevent unwanted hitchhikers, unless you don’t mind the additions.

 

[Venomous Fang]

I checked them and I didn’t see anything on them or anything like that but I’ll keep an eye on them. So it’s perfectly okay to keep them as pets?

 

[schmiggle]

I checked them and I didn’t see anything on them or anything like that but I’ll keep an eye on them. So it’s perfectly okay to keep them as pets?

Yes. There's no laws about them, and many species are kept commonly.

 

[Venomous Fang]

Okay thank you everyone for the help thanks again and happy 4th if July

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

You can keep wild isopods as pets, and they may appear to be docile, but they'll never be truly "tame". They might behave just like domesticated isopods, but deep down they're still wild animals and inherently unpredictable.

 

[schmiggle]

You can keep wild isopods as pets, and they may appear to be docile, but they'll never be truly "tame". They might behave just like domesticated isopods, but deep down they're still wild animals and inherently unpredictable.

What would you consider to be a domesticated isopod, aside from some of the odd morphs (albino, dalmatian, etc.)? My impression was that most species have not been in captivity for very long

 

[1986 Coyota]

They might behave just like domesticated isopods, but deep down they're still wild animals and inherently unpredictable.

I'm not sure keeping wild isopods would be like keeping a tiger, the worst I suspect OP would have to worry about is the little escape artists getting into the pantry!

 

[richard22]

Be watchful for tiny white mites (grain/flour mites) or soil mites (larger brown or crimson), as they can become an infestation. Remove all produce or food with them in it, and maybe use some predatory mites or diluted eucalyptol in water as an acaricide; it doesn’t seem to kill isopods but you’d want to test yourself to make sure. This issue seem to be much worse for springtails, but smaller isopod colonies are easily susceptible. Freeze (for a day or two) or heat leaf litter or mulch from the wild to ensure no living creatures are introduced, and manually kill as many soil mites as possible in whatever substrate you obtained from outside.