Porcellionides pruinosus with Gromphadorhina portentosa?

mason

mason

Second Instar
I currently have an enormous colony of gromphadorhina portentosa with around 80-100 individuals, as you could think there are many giant piles of their feces and I mean just straight piles of it since they gather up and crowd with each other. Would powder orange isopods be the way to go to help get rid of some of this without having to scoop it out all the time? I've heard about them overpopulation but if I control it properly with they do well together?  I regularly clean out their feces and any leftover exo skeletons monthly, it would also be a good chance to keep two species in one enclosure without having to make more enclosures they will also be provided with the heat. Any thoughts?

 
good to know is this for isopods in general or are there some isopods that can tollerate hisser conditions?

 
I forgot about this being an issue. At one time I had a 55 gallon aquarium filled with portentosa. I unfortunately let the waste build up get out of hand. Yuck!

 
Did you ever give it a try to put isopods in with your hissers? I have a mega colony as well and would be interested to see if they can cohabitate.  The only pod I have a ton extra of is dairy cows though. And with them being protein hungry I’d worry about too many hissers in molt getting chomped. 

 
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