what isopods do you keep?

I thought so, but I have some giant solid colored adults. So, I am assuming there are two different variations in this population. I'm just trying to see if I can separate them.

Unless of course they are different species, but I'm pretty sure both are A. vulgare. They were found just north of Atlanta.
Yes, the are both vulgare. Good luck! That yellow is very cool :)

 
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I think I found some A. vulgare this past weekend. They were under bags of bark at my in-laws' place. They are so cute when they roll up into little balls!

My 3 year old niece held the bug jar while I looked. She was also intrigued by the garter snake skin we found, and the crickets.

 
Hi! I am new to the hobby and even newer to the forum. I hope I don't offend anyone when I say that I got into keeping isopods as an enrichment/clean up crew/live food source for my hermit crabs. I THINK I have 3 species. I got some Spanish Orange as a gift and the other 2 I collected in my yard here in Columbus, OH. I'd be interested in identifying the "yardopods" as I call them and I have lots of questions but I don't wanna post in the wrong place.

I can't figure out how to attach pics or do the outside link to my Photobucket so here is my album:

http://s1228.photobucket.com/user/sachscrabpage/library/Isopods?sort=3&page=1

 
Sorry that I'm a bit late to the game...but I'd just like to say that I, too, have been trying to isolate an A. vulgare "solid" line. I now have two forms of that species (solid and striped/spotted/patterned), although all of my animals of this species are still wild-caught, as I collected most of them this summer. I've had a single solid slate-colored individual since November, and only recently found a couple more. I'm relatively new to isopods, but I love them so far! Easy to keep, and quite interesting in their own right. I started with a small starter culture of Trichorhina I got at a reptile show nearly a year and a half ago...then I realized I really liked them, and started collecting some local stuff. I've been doing a lot of collecting this summer, and I recently purchased several species/varieties from Orin and a local guy I met through the facebook isopods group. My current isopod list stands as follows:

Armadillidium vulgare "solid" (wild collected in NY)

A. vulgare "striped/spotted/patterned" (wild collected in NY)

A. nasatum (wild collected in NY)

A. nasatum "peach pillbugs" (Thanks Orin!)

A. maculatum "Zebra pillbugs" (Thanks Orin!)

Venezillo parvus (Thanks Orin!)

Oniscus asellus (including one aberrant, peach-colored individual I collected last week) (wild collected in NY)

Cylisticus convexus (this might also have some Trachelipus living in the culture... I have yet to go through all the animals and key them out) (wild collected in NY)

Porcellio scaber "solid" (wild collected in NY)

P. scaber "granite" (a mottled tan/grey line I found in my mixed Porcellio culture that I originally thought were P. spinicornis) (wild collected in NY)

P. scaber "Dalmatian" (Thanks Orin!)

P. scaber "orange"

P. dilatatus

Unknown species "tropical dwarf striped"

Unknown species "tropical purple micropod"

Trichorhina tomentosa

P. spinicornis (wild collected in NY)

Philoscia muscorum (wild collected in NY)

As you may be able to tell...I'm pretty into them! Considering their easy maintenance, they're a lot of fun. Once mine start producing more, I'm hoping to be able to trade for other species.

 
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Nice list! I recently caught 6 orange sowbugs, unknown species. I hope to breed and isolate the strain.

 
I caught them at a campground near Idaho city. I think they are Porcellio scaber, because there were a lot of them mixed in with the orange ones.

 
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I dont know what species I have as I am not too interested in isopods but I am sure they are the most common species for Europe??

 
So far, I only have three species.

- Trichorhina tomentosa (collected from the Denver Botanical Garden)

- "Costa Rican purple" (also from Denver Botanical Garden)

- Porcellio scaber "orange" (from Roach Crossing)

Photos of my T. tomentosa:

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I've been on a bit of an Isopod kick lately. As of now I have:

Porcellionides pruinosus, Armadillidium vulgare, A. nasatum, A. maculatum, Porcellio scaber, P. scaber "orange", P. laevis, P. spinicornis, P. dilatus, Oniscus Ascellus, Trachelipus rathkii, Cylisticus convexus, Venezillo parvus, Venezillo sp. keys, Oniscidea sp. "Florida Fast", Trichorhina tomoentosa, "Dwarf striped", an unknown species of porcellio from northern Florida, another unknown porcellio from south Alabama (could be same species as the Florida one), and some tiny Trichoniscidae sp I found here in central Alabama.

 
Thank you, for the information. Do you feel it is safe to use P.pruinosus as a clean up species in centipede and scorpion tanks?
They should be fine with scorpions and centipedes. It may be a good idea to keep an eye on them while they molt though, and make sure the isopod number never get too high.

I will say, however, that they are not a good species to keep with roaches or anything else with similar food sources, because I have had pruinosus overpopulate and outcompete roach species if given enough food. They should be fine with large predators because there would be a much more limited food source.

 
This isopod is almost twice the size of a football. I took this picture at the local aquarium last week.

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I do not believe any roach will eat an isopod, unless it was molting and the roaches were starving.

 
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