Intertidal Isopods

[Peter Clausen]

Collected on the Washington coast, these isopods are HUGE (and unfortunately dead). I hope to obtain more soon.

The larger one is over an inch in length, while the mottled one is still pretty sizeable by most standards.

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[Ralph]

Those are huge! My biggest european sowbug was about the mottled one's size (and around 3 years old). Can you keep them in captivity? Have you tried rock slaters, a more aquatic species?

 

[crittergu]

If anyone wants any I can get them some also.(sea slaters) They are not aquatic but live on the high tide area in the intertidal zone where they feed on washed up seaweed.