r/isopods • • Oct 31 '25

News/Education We just published a paper on the isopod trade! Summary in the comments

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r/isopods • • 5d ago

Weekly Discussion Small Business Sunday! Vendors and Reviews!

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Happy Sunday, everyone! ✨

Welcome to our Small Business Sunday showcase!

This weekly thread is dedicated to all the vendors AND creators in our community. It's your chance to share your isopod related passion projects and small businesses with us!

  • Share a link to your website, Etsy, Instagram, or wherever we can find you. 🔗
  • Running a sale or have a special promo code? Let us know so we can support you! 💰

*(As a friendly reminder, please keep all business promotion to this thread. All transactions are between the buyer and seller.)*

Have a vendor review? Feel free to post it here!

See past small business sunday posts here


r/isopods • • 5h ago

Media Paint a pod

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r/isopods • • 16h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Can my T. Trilobatus participate in FFF

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I was expecting them to be flatter tbh. But don't tell them that.

Also can we please create an FFF flair !?


r/isopods • • 14h ago

Media Flat fuck eating

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Sorry for the shaky cam, it's pretty hard to do macro without a tripod and it was an unscheduled recording so I didn't have time for a proper setup


r/isopods • • 1d ago

Media Was observing some of my pandas when I noticed this guy making DIRECT EYE CONTACT

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You’re uh… a little intense there, bud


r/isopods • • 13h ago

Media Armadillidium Espanyoli "Marbelized" - Every single one of them has a different pattern !

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r/isopods • • 18h ago

Media Flat Fuck Friday

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I promise it's not just bolivari....


r/isopods • • 10h ago

Help Can someone ID these?

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Got this box with a lot of random isopods.. and having a hard time IDing them. Anyone that can tell me what is in there?


r/isopods • • 5h ago

Help Upgrading our isopod terrarium

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Hi fellow isopod enthusiasts!
We have an isopod kit that we have had for a while now and we’re going to upgrade it to a 10 gallon tank. The only things we have in it currently are the isopods, springtails, temp/humidity gauges, some leaf litter, the zoo med creature soil, a shell, a small toy (kids gave it as enrichment), and a cork hide.

The list I have for upgrading is as follows:

10 gallon tank
Mesh screen lid
LED grow light
extra charcoal and worm castings
More springtails

Clay pebbles LECA or aquarium pebbles on bottom (1 inch layer)
Organic top soil
Leaf litter
Cork bark hides

Wet side:
Sphagnum Moss
Lemon button fern
Fittonia nerve plant

Dry side:
Prayer Plants
Watermelon Peperomia

From what I’ve read, I can just add everything into the new tank with the substrate mix so we don’t lose the home they’ve made so far as well as any tiny ones that may be in there.

The reason for the plants I chose is that we have cats and a dog, so we’re doing our best to keep the terrarium friendly for all the animals in our home.

Am I missing anything? Any advice is welcome. I’d like to do this as budget friendly as possible but also making sure to keep our isopods safe.


r/isopods • • 9h ago

Media One (1) panda cub spotted

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First/only time I’ve peeked under a hide since getting them and I saw this unexpected little guy :)


r/isopods • • 4h ago

Media Leaf litter season in USAmerica

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My isopods are always demanding, "more leaf litter!"

It's leaf litter season, so I made it rain. Collected an entire bag in like 5 minutes. Perfect time of year to treat your 'pods to free eats.

Also, isopod habitat enrichment is a gourd use of seasonal squash shells.


r/isopods • • 1d ago

Media Pillbug-chan transformation (by @plan039)

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r/isopods • • 11h ago

Text what isopod should I be for Halloween

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unsure what flair this goes under but the question remains !!!!!


r/isopods • • 13h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Teeny Tiny Baby Panda King🐼

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So cute, I had to share!!


r/isopods • • 6h ago

Help How to take care of isopods in cold climates?

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I've been thinking about starting my first isopod colony and I've read about how they need leaf litter to graze on, but I live in Canada and there's very large spans of time where there's nowhere to get a decent amount of leaves without them rotting over time and winter here usually lasts for upwards of 4 months. Are there any practical ways to provide material for them to graze on that don't rely on seasons? I don't wanna risk being cruel to them.

Sorry if this sounds stupid lmao but it's been on my mind for a while now


r/isopods • • 7h ago

Help Would this be ok for my cubaris blonde duckies?

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I live in Oklahoma and it's beginning to get colder here so my room is now around 65ish, I want to get a heat mat to put on the side of their enclosure in case it gets too cold and wanna know if this zoomed one is alright? Also do I put it on the end of the dry side or should I put it on one of the sides that has both wet/dry side? I currently have their enclosure at around 71 by wrapping it (the ventilation holes aren't covered) in my blankets until I can get a heat mat


r/isopods • • 13h ago

Media Lavas love an avocado

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Lavas going crazy over the dark outer layer of this dried avocado shell.


r/isopods • • 1d ago

Media Whats your favorite isopod?

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So I really like panda kings, and plan on getting some soon. I haven't fully made up my mind though. So what's your favorite and why?


r/isopods • • 15h ago

Text I finally have babies!

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I have no pics if course because they are teeny tiny and I dont want to open the bin to mess with them but I FINALLY have babies in my first dairy cow enclosure. This was my first time actually keeping isopods versus putting them in my geckos tank. I am a proud grandma lol. These babies have stressed me out from day one but things are finally looking up!

Edit: I was able to get one terrible photo of the one I can see. See in comments


r/isopods • • 14h ago

Media FFF Contribution

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Baby P. Magnificus


r/isopods • • 8h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) My new dairy cows

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They are so cute omg

I bought them on sunday, but I forgot to show them here


r/isopods • • 13h ago

Media More flat fucks eating

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Since it's FFF, here's more werneri!


r/isopods • • 19h ago

Media It's That Day of the Week Again

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Happy flack fuck Friday, everyone!

These are some of my P hoffmannseggi. I love how tiny the babies are next to the adults. Why are they so damn cute?!


r/isopods • • 8h ago

Media My cutie pie

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I'm switching my pandas from a big terrarium to a tiny terrarium; so far I've only found one.

I put a piece of zucchini in the terrarium hoping the rest of them would show up to eat it.