34:02 Is it their offspring or did some Dwarf Whites get into the Red Tiger colony there? They said that's not a good thing, so maybe worth looking into??? EDIT: Oh, nevermind they're termites lol whew
Can you believe that isopods are lizards? They lay eggs and have feet. This makes them a bird. As we all know birds are reptiles which, makes arthropods lizards.
So glad you commented. I thought I was really high and imagining this. I paused it so it's right there when I wake up, so I could verify I'm not that messed up.
Great video guys and it came out at a perfect time as I'm starting to make my vivs bioactive. Love isopods never knew there was so many difference types.
@@eklectiktoni plus it’s safe for the little ones to play with, and not the absolute worst thing when they accidentally kill them because they are such a huge population that quickly recycles their numbers.
@@frowner_and_co I try to teach them empathy. It’s not always natural and easy with children and pushing too hard can make you into a monster and make them anxious about slapping a mosquito without being a horrible as despicable human. I understand the Jan philosophy/religion, but you are likely killing billions or even trillions of living creatures every time you use the toilet and have a movement.
Haha I love that he immediately pointed out that isopods aren’t insects. I have a strong psychological reaction to a lot of insects but I keep isopods. My mom thinks I’m crazy but I’m like “they’re crustaceans!” It’s kind of a voluntary exposure therapy. I really enjoy having living terrariums to mimic a tiny ecosystem. Isopods turned out to be a great and accessible option for that. I now have porcellio laevis dairy cows and armadillidium vulgare T+ albino. Some of my dairy cows escaped this summer when it was insanely humid, which was disconcerting 😳 I shored up their terrarium a little better but I still feel kinda bad since they ultimately probably didn’t make it. Live and learn. I still love my podlings! And I won’t forget walking upstairs to go to bed and spotting an isopods casually climbing down the stairs out of the corner of my eye. I was like “Oi! Where do you think you’re going?? Out for a night on the town?!” And he’s like “don’t mind me, mom, don’t mind me….” I picked him up and plunked him back in the terrarium, cheeky boy
same goes with arachnids, everyone that does not know anything about isopods, and arachnids will always call them insects, even do they are not part of the insecta group
Such a cute story! 😍 I immediately want to set up some isopod terraria (although I think I have to make extra, extra sure my terrariums are closed, or I will not only lose isopods but also likely my boyfriend 😂)
I don't even have to keep isopods to enjoy them, they break into our house to come say hello! Where I live we call them 'slaters' because their backs look like slate roof tiles, and I have become the nominated slater remover in our house
I didn't even know that people kept them as pets. The idea of using them to clean up poop from other pets is very interesting. How many of them does it take to clean a cat box?
I once found a bright orange P. scaber in the wild. Took her home with some normals. Within a few years, I had a colony with both bright orange and solid white morphs. One of the coolest things from my childhood.
I have a colony of dairy cows and I love them. There is one of particular note I nicknamed Dozer. It's quite a bit bigger than the others even at adult size and likes to plow through the smaller iso's to steal food, and once grabbed a fish flake to drag away taking two smaller ones with it.
@@jenniferbarrett9291 haha, they only move as a herd if I sprinkle fish flake in after moistening them. Otherwise it's crackhead/mad max energy. Lmao Dozer passed though. Had a weird thing sweep through the colony turn about 90% of them orange and kill them. I think some form of irridovirus.
Clint: "What isn't there to like about isopods?" Me: "That they eat fishes' tongues and then replace them." Clint: "Nothing. Even if they were enormous-" Me: "Like the ones that eat fishes' tongues and then replace them?" Clint: "-they'd still be cute! They don't have a nasty bite-" Me: "Except the ones that eat fishes' tongues and then replace them!?!?" Dammit Clint! :P
The worst thing about isopods is you can't just keep one colony of them. I've managed to keep the species I have below 10, but I fear the moment I have more space I'll end up having a whole room of them 🤣
That is very much a thing. One second you're "just getting some for a bioactive". The next you have 50 tubs with varying labels and a constant need for leaf litter.
I watch my powdered oranges in my anole's bioactive, there is so many I have to break it down and remove all the substrate to put fresh in. It's amazing how fast they breed.
I greatly enjoy the pure zeal and excitement that Clint has for each species. I smiled at every one of his "holy moly" exclamations and when he swore that one isopod species was his favorite until the next one came along and he swore THAT one was his favorite. Extremely pure content. And yes, I WILL be getting isopods now, thank you for asking.
Ironically, I think they would freak me out a little less if they were bigger. Something small and crawly just sorta makes my brain go "BUG!" and that's not fair to the rollie pollies. lol
Even as a long time builder/maintainer of vivariums and the associated flora and fauna I still find isopods odd. I think it probably has to do with the fact that for most kids, myself anyway, pillbugs where the first living thing we discovered and played with in the dirt.
I agree, Isopods are the greatest lil' things! I actually accidentally discovered they're great for vivariums when I put a handful from outside into a 30g Hermit Crab enclosure I had years ago. Some of them drowned when the enclosure flooded (sad times), but many of them thrived! This was when I was very young and thought that Isopods just immediately died off...because they always did. It wasn't 'til years later that I found out they have gills and that some can even survive in aquariums for weeks!
@@ezriquinn6706 hhahahah. I am very interested into stuff like that. My family still doesn’t understand why I hate it so much when they say that all cockroaches are bad
Want to give the zebras credit that they're very good as the cleanup crew for my Indonesian blue tongue skink. My favorite for the video are the trilobite isopods. Our little buddies are back! And they've had such a glow up!
The timing of this video was verging on magical at my house. I'm not new as far as reptiles go, but I AM new to bioactive enclosures and just last night I was trying to figure out which species of isopod would do best in my particular set ups. Thanks Clint for an entertaining and illuminating video, yet again. Your enthusiasm is contagious :)
No contest; my absolute favorite is the porcellio ornatus high yellow. I love how they seem to have secret messages written in little cryptic characters on them. And, of course, it helps that yellow is my favorite color.
Reminds me of neocaradina and caradina shrimp, some really gorgeous patterning and the color selection is just amazing as well. The neat thing about them is if you love just random patterns you can even buy "unpure" stock that can breed a rainbow of colors and sometimes produce patterns. It's mesmerizing to watch them eat too lol.
I love the Magnificus and Expansus the most. That bright orange coloring with the creamy white skirt is just beautiful! And they're... well, magnificent. It's in the name, really. Doesn't get more simple than that. And then the Expansus is just so cool looking, really does look like a little trilobite.
I'm not very big into like bugs, but I've always found 'rollie-pollies' to be really cute. And seeing two grown men so passionate and fawning over these little creatures sparks joy. I'm in the middle of watching and they have all been pretty and handsome little isopods. Good job taking great care of them!
So, when my students read To Kill a Mockingbird, there's a reference to a roly poly, and I take the time to drop some awesome science on them, which they never expect. This year, I'll drop some additional awesome language knowledge on them with conglobate. And then share this video. 😍
In the late 1980s, I kept the wild North American species for a couple years. In that time, I ended up having a little colour variation crop up (dark coral, or more pronounced light spots), as well as eventually a few albinos. When I moved, I just put them back in the yard where I had found them. Their favourite food was carrot tops.
i LOVE my dairy cows!! they are so interesting to watch and see completely uncover a peach pit within a day. They love climbing on the plants in my terrarium and the personality/ease of care can't be beat
I keep isopods as pets - the pandas, the powder orange, the silver stripes, dairy cows and rubber duckies, 5000 at least on total. I love them so much. I feed them leaves and sticks, and chestnuts, and my organic food scraps, and cat food and shed skins of the roaches (tarantula food colony). Such delightful little guys.
They might just be the most ideal exotic pet for the first timer. I'm tempted to get some myself. As much as I love spiders I also have a phobia of them sooooo not ideal. I don't trust myself to not kill any reptile or amphibian I get & I can't get pet rats due to having two Yorkshire terriers. Really like the Zebras. Hardy, good for beginners, active so fun to watch & very pretty. Pure perfection.
This has been one of the most fascinating videos of yours yet! I had no idea there was such a big world of isopod enthusiasts. I wonder if marine isopods of any kind are kept much at all? It's interesting hearing all the different common names for them! Where I grew up there were called woodlouse, where my mum grew up they're sowbugs, I've heard pillbugs, and roly-poly, and where I live now, they're called carpenters!
Marine Isopods are widely kept in marine aquaria, where they serve as a cleanup crew and as snacks for larger inhabitants. Most of them are not very colorful, but there are some with very strange shapes!
I have some porcellio laevis orange that I got as a clean up crew for my crestie. I fell in love with them to be honest, he was correct about the feeding response in them, watching them investigate and tug of war over pellets, veggies etc is surprisingly fun. I am glad I held back from using the whole shipped colony as a clean up crew since now I have a bonus group of pets to enjoy.
This was the best half hour of my week! Gotta love isopods they are so stinking rad 🥰, I was really hoping he have Sicilian Hissing isopods they are amazing 😉, rubber duckies are so sweet love them all. I hope you show us which ones you end up getting ♥️ thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always.
You're right about isopods. I don't like insects and spiders at all, but isopods don't bother me. I'd actually like to keep something like the rubber duckies in a nice terrarium if they weren't so expensive.
Clint sliding in that beautiful Jurassic Park reference. Loved it. Im not super keen on insects in general( I do love tarantulas) but Isopods are super cute. It is a factor pushing me to make my enclosures bioactive.
I used to find isopods very similar to Armadillidium gestroi in my garden in Istanbul. There were the same yellow spots but I don’t think they were quite so distinct. Perhaps A. marmoratum? Great show! My only suggestion would be, instead of saying that something is “big” or “three times the size of x,” it would be helpful to tell us actual length.
My favorites were the ones that most closely resemble the trilobites! I had Geology class in high school the trilobites was easily my favorite fossil...because, I played with rollie pollies growing up! We had the plain gray ones, but they have all but almost disappeared. We live in the high mountain desert and have severe drought conditions and very low humidity. That was a special time in my childhood!
I'm not the biggest fan of isopods in general but I really like the Dairy Cows. Also I recently donde out about pseudarmadillo spinosus, which are now by far my favorite isopods
My aunt: "Who the heck would even LIKE those nasty things? They're woodlice, garden pests!" Me: Has an "I brake for Roly-Polies" bumper sticker, and actively loves my local backyard colony for the heck of it!
Hearing y'all's talk about the isopods kinda feels like I just walked into a dispensary. Here is high yellow, it pretty big with great color, you'll really enjoy this one
This video made my day, love learning about isopods. I only have dairy cows as of recently but I'm excited for more when I can. It's so hard to choose favorites from here but I really like the yellow skirts, Oreo crumbles, and milkbacks.
Two of my favorite UA-camrs in one video?! How the heck did I miss this one? I love isopods so much. Probably the first wild thing I kept as a pet, when I was three years old! (Mom made me put them back in the backyard though.)
I would totally have isopods if it wasn't for getting a license for every state you want to ship them too, that just complicates selling the extra ones I'm bound to have.
I adore the conglobating cubaris isopods, especially the rubber duckies! Though there are pandas and giant raichus which for me are even cuter than duckies!
When I went to my first reptile expo and I saw a rubber ducky isopod colony for over two hundred fifty dollars I thought it was a joke. Now I understand the insanity that is fancy isopod collecting (and that as a very regional cave species from Thailand they're not exactly something I can grab in my back yard)
I must say,my fav kind will always be the native A.Nasatum of my region. They are absolutely gorg, dusty blue/purply, with splayed edges like a trilobite and a cutesy nose (hence the name). I like that they are not shiny also, which would make them look slimy, and the flare in the edges is very elegant.
I'm 100% certain that I have a bunch of dwarf whites in my indoor greenhouse. I was looking for a colony to purchase, but now that I know that I might already have a colony of my own, I just need to make them a habitat. Very informative and entertaining, thanks!
Okay, this video has convinced me to one day get Isopods. They are such gorgeous little animals! My favorite is without a doubt Porcellio expansus, very pleasing pattern and a resemblance to Trilobites just awe struck me.
My first experience as an adult with terrestrial isopods was an animal behavior experiment in one of my college classes. Nobody had a clue why the random assortment of common isopods had random unusual colors, now I know
I keep my dairy's and my powder dwarf whites in a 20 gallon together they're both so prolific that they can't out compete the other. All my other isopods I keep separate.
I have a hermit crab tank and had to leave it for about a week due to a flood in my building. When I got them back a colony of local native isopods had moved in and lives with them quite happily as their cleanup crew.
You had me at 5 Isopods. I tried loosing a few small run of the mill Pillbugs and Woodlice in my Toads tank hoping they'd live to do their jobs. She doesn't use most of her tank so I have pet plants too.
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I presume the magic potions also have health problems since they're line bred.
Just subscribed, thank you for all you do Clint and introducing everyone to some really amazing people ☺️.
There is one thing not to like about isopods:
Their flavour.
34:02 Is it their offspring or did some Dwarf Whites get into the Red Tiger colony there? They said that's not a good thing, so maybe worth looking into???
EDIT: Oh, nevermind they're termites lol whew
Can you believe that isopods are lizards? They lay eggs and have feet. This makes them a bird. As we all know birds are reptiles which, makes arthropods lizards.
"So what did you do today?" "I listened to two people talk for 35 minutes about ornamental woodlice." "...okay..."
AC in the house!
so glad Clint uploaded this as well =)
Only a certain type of person would get it. ;D
So glad you commented. I thought I was really high and imagining this. I paused it so it's right there when I wake up, so I could verify I'm not that messed up.
Don’t you do this every day
I'm so happy that there are people in this world who love isopods as much as I do.
I had such a blast filming this with you, Clint! And to think...we barely scratched the surface of isopod diversity!
Ive never loved a bug more. The zebra is beautiful.
Great video guys and it came out at a perfect time as I'm starting to make my vivs bioactive. Love isopods never knew there was so many difference types.
Could it be that isopods have hijacked the human instinct to take care of things that are "cute" (small and round)?
You guys do well together Rus
Time for some mandatory isopod diversity training, then...
As a gardener i love them! Because they prefer dead plant material and therefore can be wonderful in saving a plant with root rot
They are awesome in my compost pile!
@@eklectiktoni plus it’s safe for the little ones to play with, and not the absolute worst thing when they accidentally kill them because they are such a huge population that quickly recycles their numbers.
@@john-paulsilke893 shouldn't let them kill them though
@@doctordragon9798 me, being 11 years old:Say Wat Mate?
@@frowner_and_co I try to teach them empathy. It’s not always natural and easy with children and pushing too hard can make you into a monster and make them anxious about slapping a mosquito without being a horrible as despicable human. I understand the Jan philosophy/religion, but you are likely killing billions or even trillions of living creatures every time you use the toilet and have a movement.
I never realized there were such things as roly-poly enthusiasts.
ME to but i think i will catch some so they can eat the lizard droppings.
Tales of Zesteria one of the main characters are obsessed
Thank you so much for spelling that the way it's pronounced instead of the usual abomination (which is one of my pet peeves).
Its quite addictive
If it exists, there's going to be at least one enthusiast of it.
TIME STAMPS:
2:28 armadillidium gestroi (no common name)
4:28 orange dalmatian magic potion
6:41 montenegro or clown isopods
8:20 zebras
9:50 porcellis flavomarginatus
12:04 oreo crumbles
15:20 porcellio scaber (lava)
17:34 patreon
18:00 porcellio laevis (dairy cow)
19:08 porcellio laevis (milk back)
19:49 porcellio ornatus (high yellow)
21:26 porcellio ornatus (yellow dot)
22:35 porcellio hoffmannseggi (titan or hoffs)
24:54 porcellio magnificus
26:25 porcellio expansus (beetlejuice)
28:28 dwarf whites
30:39 rubber ducky
33:33 red tiger
34:46 thank yous and goodbyes!
sorry if i missed anything, please comment if i did.
Thank u friend
Thanks!
Thank You!
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Thx
Haha I love that he immediately pointed out that isopods aren’t insects. I have a strong psychological reaction to a lot of insects but I keep isopods. My mom thinks I’m crazy but I’m like “they’re crustaceans!” It’s kind of a voluntary exposure therapy. I really enjoy having living terrariums to mimic a tiny ecosystem. Isopods turned out to be a great and accessible option for that. I now have porcellio laevis dairy cows and armadillidium vulgare T+ albino. Some of my dairy cows escaped this summer when it was insanely humid, which was disconcerting 😳 I shored up their terrarium a little better but I still feel kinda bad since they ultimately probably didn’t make it. Live and learn. I still love my podlings! And I won’t forget walking upstairs to go to bed and spotting an isopods casually climbing down the stairs out of the corner of my eye. I was like “Oi! Where do you think you’re going?? Out for a night on the town?!” And he’s like “don’t mind me, mom, don’t mind me….” I picked him up and plunked him back in the terrarium, cheeky boy
same goes with arachnids, everyone that does not know anything about isopods, and arachnids will always call them insects, even do they are not part of the insecta group
Such a cute story! 😍 I immediately want to set up some isopod terraria (although I think I have to make extra, extra sure my terrariums are closed, or I will not only lose isopods but also likely my boyfriend 😂)
Lol, maybe consider putting lids on your terrrariums. It's strange that you've had escapees considering isopods cannot climb plastic/glass.
I don't even have to keep isopods to enjoy them, they break into our house to come say hello! Where I live we call them 'slaters' because their backs look like slate roof tiles, and I have become the nominated slater remover in our house
Insects are crustaceans, too.
Never had pet isopods, not even sure I want them, but I love watching two hobbyists go bananas about their hobby.
That is definitely part of the fun!
I have em in my front yard
I didn't even know that people kept them as pets. The idea of using them to clean up poop from other pets is very interesting. How many of them does it take to clean a cat box?
u allready have them ;)
Agreed! Its fun watching people who are jazzed about what they do in life.
I like that Russ has basically entered the extended main cast of clints reptiles.
The CREU is the best cinematic universe in my opinion
I have a blast every time!
@@nathanielleack4842 😁👍
@@nathanielleack4842 it's also connected to the AU, isopod universe
I once found a bright orange P. scaber in the wild. Took her home with some normals. Within a few years, I had a colony with both bright orange and solid white morphs. One of the coolest things from my childhood.
I have a colony of dairy cows and I love them. There is one of particular note I nicknamed Dozer. It's quite a bit bigger than the others even at adult size and likes to plow through the smaller iso's to steal food, and once grabbed a fish flake to drag away taking two smaller ones with it.
That name fits so well! That reminds me of when I had guppies, they would steal fish flakes from each other and swim away with it lol
I thought you were going to say a " herd" of dairy cows. Lol
@@jenniferbarrett9291 haha, they only move as a herd if I sprinkle fish flake in after moistening them. Otherwise it's crackhead/mad max energy. Lmao
Dozer passed though. Had a weird thing sweep through the colony turn about 90% of them orange and kill them. I think some form of irridovirus.
That´s such a funny mental image omg
Clint after seeing every different isopod. “Oooh I like these”
Clint after seeing every different animal on earth
I’m the same way 😂
If that isn't everybody's reaction I swear
@@guppy719 ikr
What's not to like, y'know?
Clint, I have to concur... There is nothing not to like about Isopods
agreed, i find them in my house in my brothers toys and they are just gross
@@lucassanford4062 they said they’re nothing NOT to like
@@lucassanford4062 Read it again, it's a double negative
@@lucassanford4062 Out of any arthropod, I'd consider them the cutest
100%!
Clint: "What isn't there to like about isopods?"
Me: "That they eat fishes' tongues and then replace them."
Clint: "Nothing. Even if they were enormous-"
Me: "Like the ones that eat fishes' tongues and then replace them?"
Clint: "-they'd still be cute! They don't have a nasty bite-"
Me: "Except the ones that eat fishes' tongues and then replace them!?!?"
Dammit Clint! :P
Thank you for making me laugh this morning 😆🤣😂😹
the ones at the tongues of fishes are amphipods non isopods, it´s another group of crustaceans.
@@lhadzyan7300 Cymothoa exigua, the tongue-eating louse, is in the Isopoda order.
@@littlesaresare what?!! I thought it was an amphipod.
every familys got that one 🙄🙄
The worst thing about isopods is you can't just keep one colony of them. I've managed to keep the species I have below 10, but I fear the moment I have more space I'll end up having a whole room of them 🤣
That is very much a thing. One second you're "just getting some for a bioactive". The next you have 50 tubs with varying labels and a constant need for leaf litter.
yes!!! i just bought new colonies. i have 5 more tubs ready and 10 in storage
I have the same issue with ants 🤣 (can you use them as cleanup crew for ant arenas or will they see them as prey? 🤔)
One isopod is too many, a thousand isopods is not enough...
"multiple tank syndrome" but with isopods
I can’t explain it but this channel is just so welcoming and homey, like Clint is just our really cool dad
I love his enthusiasm.
They weren't mentioned here, but i absolutely love Powder Blue isopods
I watch my powdered oranges in my anole's bioactive, there is so many I have to break it down and remove all the substrate to put fresh in. It's amazing how fast they breed.
Google’s them, falls in love lol 😆
The powder blues/oranges are the same species as the oreo crumbles in this vid, just a different morph :)
I greatly enjoy the pure zeal and excitement that Clint has for each species. I smiled at every one of his "holy moly" exclamations and when he swore that one isopod species was his favorite until the next one came along and he swore THAT one was his favorite.
Extremely pure content. And yes, I WILL be getting isopods now, thank you for asking.
There are huge swarms of these at the rocky beaches in South Africa, I always used to be scared of them but this video has changed my mind :)
Best first pet ever. They're like fish without the water parameters to keep up with. I keep mine in a display punch bowl with plants and leaves.
Ironically, I think they would freak me out a little less if they were bigger. Something small and crawly just sorta makes my brain go "BUG!" and that's not fair to the rollie pollies. lol
but they're crustateans ;P
@@plumtucker9514 Brain don't care. Brain still go "BUG!!!"
Yes!!! I'm a huge bug lover with lots of pet crawlies. BUT if I had to pick which ones I think are the scariest I would pick the smallest and fastest.
There's actually some decently large pet ones but probably not large enough for you
Some of the porcellio ones get (relatively) big
Even as a long time builder/maintainer of vivariums and the associated flora and fauna I still find isopods odd. I think it probably has to do with the fact that for most kids, myself anyway, pillbugs where the first living thing we discovered and played with in the dirt.
Russ’s wide eyes in the beginning tells me he wasn’t ready for Clint’s awesome enthusiasm.
I agree, Isopods are the greatest lil' things! I actually accidentally discovered they're great for vivariums when I put a handful from outside into a 30g Hermit Crab enclosure I had years ago. Some of them drowned when the enclosure flooded (sad times), but many of them thrived! This was when I was very young and thought that Isopods just immediately died off...because they always did. It wasn't 'til years later that I found out they have gills and that some can even survive in aquariums for weeks!
Me trying to talk to girls: Hey there. Let’s talk about conglobating.
Her:WTF
Nah I'd say "tell me more"
@@ezriquinn6706 yeah. Totally agree
@@ezriquinn6706 you sound like a very pleasant human being to interact with
@@Currentttttt. well i have been studying zoology since the 3rd grade so I guess I'm the exception
@@ezriquinn6706 hhahahah. I am very interested into stuff like that. My family still doesn’t understand why I hate it so much when they say that all cockroaches are bad
me before this video: "wild that people have woodlice as pets now"
me after this video: 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰 "I must have all sixteen immediately"
I don't think I'll ever live without dwarf whites and dwarf purples tbqh
All these isopods are conglobatingly stinkin' rad!!
I absolutely adore isopods. I'm always helping pill bugs get out of danger. They sure love walking in travel paths!
Please do a setup for one of these. No idea Isopods collecting and breeding was a thing.
Want to give the zebras credit that they're very good as the cleanup crew for my Indonesian blue tongue skink.
My favorite for the video are the trilobite isopods. Our little buddies are back! And they've had such a glow up!
I am so thankful for both of you being such genuinely amazing people who have helped encourage me in the reptile and invertebrate hobby.
Thank you, Ask, for all of your support!
The timing of this video was verging on magical at my house. I'm not new as far as reptiles go, but I AM new to bioactive enclosures and just last night I was trying to figure out which species of isopod would do best in my particular set ups.
Thanks Clint for an entertaining and illuminating video, yet again. Your enthusiasm is contagious :)
What type of enclosure are you making?
@@webbotubes A 4x2x2 PVC for a Spotted Python
@@siobhanmcelwee7869 ah that should be relatively straight forward then. Shout if you need to :)
No contest; my absolute favorite is the porcellio ornatus high yellow. I love how they seem to have secret messages written in little cryptic characters on them. And, of course, it helps that yellow is my favorite color.
Reminds me of neocaradina and caradina shrimp, some really gorgeous patterning and the color selection is just amazing as well. The neat thing about them is if you love just random patterns you can even buy "unpure" stock that can breed a rainbow of colors and sometimes produce patterns. It's mesmerizing to watch them eat too lol.
That The Offspring reference. Quick, Clint, quick.
I love the Magnificus and Expansus the most. That bright orange coloring with the creamy white skirt is just beautiful! And they're... well, magnificent. It's in the name, really. Doesn't get more simple than that. And then the Expansus is just so cool looking, really does look like a little trilobite.
The Rubber Duckies are adorable as always though I think my favorites are the ones that look like the Trilobites. They were so pretty!
"I think the Offspring tried to warn us about that." - I laughed. Nicely done.
I know when he said that my eyes lit up!
I'm not very big into like bugs, but I've always found 'rollie-pollies' to be really cute. And seeing two grown men so passionate and fawning over these little creatures sparks joy. I'm in the middle of watching and they have all been pretty and handsome little isopods. Good job taking great care of them!
I can't even express my anticipation for this crossover. Aquarimax videos convinced me to start a vulgare colony, which I did a few days ago.
Glad to have helped you get started in the isopod hobby!
Yay! Isopods! My daughter's favorites are the kind that can conglobate ❤, she'll love learning the word, too.Such an awesome video!
So, when my students read To Kill a Mockingbird, there's a reference to a roly poly, and I take the time to drop some awesome science on them, which they never expect. This year, I'll drop some additional awesome language knowledge on them with conglobate. And then share this video. 😍
In the late 1980s, I kept the wild North American species for a couple years. In that time, I ended up having a little colour variation crop up (dark coral, or more pronounced light spots), as well as eventually a few albinos. When I moved, I just put them back in the yard where I had found them. Their favourite food was carrot tops.
I have isopods from my yard and I keep them! I love them, theyre so cute and the babies are even cuter!
i just got rubber ducky isopods yesterday... AS ALWAYS PERFECT TIMING
i LOVE my dairy cows!! they are so interesting to watch and see completely uncover a peach pit within a day. They love climbing on the plants in my terrarium and the personality/ease of care can't be beat
Clints excitement is infectious! Great video. Thank you for showing us all this Russ!
You’re welcome!
I've loved isopods for YEARS I had no clue there were so many!! Thank you guys for showing us the lovely worlds of isopods! 💙
I keep isopods as pets - the pandas, the powder orange, the silver stripes, dairy cows and rubber duckies, 5000 at least on total. I love them so much. I feed them leaves and sticks, and chestnuts, and my organic food scraps, and cat food and shed skins of the roaches (tarantula food colony). Such delightful little guys.
They might just be the most ideal exotic pet for the first timer.
I'm tempted to get some myself.
As much as I love spiders I also have a phobia of them sooooo not ideal.
I don't trust myself to not kill any reptile or amphibian I get & I can't get pet rats due to having two Yorkshire terriers.
Really like the Zebras.
Hardy, good for beginners, active so fun to watch & very pretty. Pure perfection.
They really are perfect,its like having a herd of miniature cows
My most favorite little bugs ever!!! I have loved “Rolly Pollies” since I was a tot! Great to see so many different species. Great job Clint!
This has been one of the most fascinating videos of yours yet!
I had no idea there was such a big world of isopod enthusiasts. I wonder if marine isopods of any kind are kept much at all?
It's interesting hearing all the different common names for them! Where I grew up there were called woodlouse, where my mum grew up they're sowbugs, I've heard pillbugs, and roly-poly, and where I live now, they're called carpenters!
Marine Isopods are widely kept in marine aquaria, where they serve as a cleanup crew and as snacks for larger inhabitants. Most of them are not very colorful, but there are some with very strange shapes!
@@Aquarimax Thank you for the info!
I have some porcellio laevis orange that I got as a clean up crew for my crestie. I fell in love with them to be honest, he was correct about the feeding response in them, watching them investigate and tug of war over pellets, veggies etc is surprisingly fun. I am glad I held back from using the whole shipped colony as a clean up crew since now I have a bonus group of pets to enjoy.
This was the best half hour of my week! Gotta love isopods they are so stinking rad 🥰, I was really hoping he have Sicilian Hissing isopods they are amazing 😉, rubber duckies are so sweet love them all. I hope you show us which ones you end up getting ♥️ thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always.
You're right about isopods. I don't like insects and spiders at all, but isopods don't bother me. I'd actually like to keep something like the rubber duckies in a nice terrarium if they weren't so expensive.
Clint sliding in that beautiful Jurassic Park reference. Loved it. Im not super keen on insects in general( I do love tarantulas) but Isopods are super cute. It is a factor pushing me to make my enclosures bioactive.
I used to find isopods very similar to Armadillidium gestroi in my garden in Istanbul. There were the same yellow spots but I don’t think they were quite so distinct. Perhaps A. marmoratum?
Great show! My only suggestion would be, instead of saying that something is “big” or “three times the size of x,” it would be helpful to tell us actual length.
He seems like a very nice guy. Always genuinely happy to talk about the little critters
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My favorites were the ones that most closely resemble the trilobites! I had Geology class in high school the trilobites was easily my favorite fossil...because, I played with rollie pollies growing up! We had the plain gray ones, but they have all but almost disappeared. We live in the high mountain desert and have severe drought conditions and very low humidity. That was a special time in my childhood!
I love the pros and cons! We should have pros and cons at the end of each reptile video to round out the 5 categories! Great videos, as always
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I'm not the biggest fan of isopods in general but I really like the Dairy Cows. Also I recently donde out about pseudarmadillo spinosus, which are now by far my favorite isopods
I have dairy cows they are so beautiful to look at.
@@Iridescentunicornfarts I gree! In the 2 bioactive set ups that I have, I keep dairy cows. They're beautiful and ferocious lol
@@jpslizards I wish they weren’t so scared. They hide whenever I’m near the tank. I have lots of huge ones.
@@Iridescentunicornfarts yeah they run to hide lol although if they didn't my Boyds Dragon would eat them too easily lol
My aunt: "Who the heck would even LIKE those nasty things? They're woodlice, garden pests!"
Me: Has an "I brake for Roly-Polies" bumper sticker, and actively loves my local backyard colony for the heck of it!
Im really here for this collab tho! You guys already need a part two. I know Russ has more to show. And Clint has more to be impressed with!
I have zebra isopods and I absolutely adore them. I've had them for about two months and I've started seeing lots of little babies already
I was able to insert toxicognaths into conversation for the first time yesterday! Was as great as you hyped it up to be :^)
Never in a million years would I have expected to hear myself say "I need pet Isopods, now!" but here we are.
I have zebras, clowns and brickwork isopods. They all chill in my vivarium. I love just watching these little guys.
Clint making a The Offspring reference was great.
Gotta keep those isopods separated.
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Hearing y'all's talk about the isopods kinda feels like I just walked into a dispensary.
Here is high yellow, it pretty big with great color, you'll really enjoy this one
This video made my day, love learning about isopods. I only have dairy cows as of recently but I'm excited for more when I can. It's so hard to choose favorites from here but I really like the yellow skirts, Oreo crumbles, and milkbacks.
Two of my favorite UA-camrs in one video?! How the heck did I miss this one? I love isopods so much. Probably the first wild thing I kept as a pet, when I was three years old! (Mom made me put them back in the backyard though.)
I would totally have isopods if it wasn't for getting a license for every state you want to ship them too, that just complicates selling the extra ones I'm bound to have.
Maybe you could sell them to the pet/fish stores in your state instead?
How exactly do you obtain a license for this stuff and how old do you have to be?
I adore the conglobating cubaris isopods, especially the rubber duckies! Though there are pandas and giant raichus which for me are even cuter than duckies!
Every time Clint sees a new animal: I think this is one of my favorite [insert species] I've ever seen!
This is probably my favorite episode so far.
I LOVE isopods!
When I went to my first reptile expo and I saw a rubber ducky isopod colony for over two hundred fifty dollars I thought it was a joke. Now I understand the insanity that is fancy isopod collecting (and that as a very regional cave species from Thailand they're not exactly something I can grab in my back yard)
I must say,my fav kind will always be the native A.Nasatum of my region. They are absolutely gorg, dusty blue/purply, with splayed edges like a trilobite and a cutesy nose (hence the name). I like that they are not shiny also, which would make them look slimy, and the flare in the edges is very elegant.
I have 5 colonies of isopods. A couple of them are ones that were shown in the video. I love watching them run around. It's great! 😊
I'm 100% certain that I have a bunch of dwarf whites in my indoor greenhouse. I was looking for a colony to purchase, but now that I know that I might already have a colony of my own, I just need to make them a habitat. Very informative and entertaining, thanks!
Okay, this video has convinced me to one day get Isopods. They are such gorgeous little animals! My favorite is without a doubt Porcellio expansus, very pleasing pattern and a resemblance to Trilobites just awe struck me.
Russ's enthusiasm really shone through in the opening lol
I recommend to anyone getting into these get a pocket microscope for viewing the amazing little guys.
The enthusiasm behind "But Jason is wrong!" at 0:48 did it for me
Perfect timing as there is an exotic pets fair in my town today and these little monsters have been featuring more frequently of late.
came home with a 12 count A. Maculatum "Zebras" and two 50 count Dwarf Whites.
Clint and Russ. You two are perfect together. Please do many more collabs! This is magical
I remember Rolli Polli when I was younger! They were fun to play with 😃
The one we see a lot r the grey one 😶
My first experience as an adult with terrestrial isopods was an animal behavior experiment in one of my college classes. Nobody had a clue why the random assortment of common isopods had random unusual colors, now I know
I keep my dairy's and my powder dwarf whites in a 20 gallon together they're both so prolific that they can't out compete the other. All my other isopods I keep separate.
I didn't knew they were so many species of isopods. I really love the deep sea ones.
Isopods bring me joy I love catching them in the wild such neat creatures 😁
I have a hermit crab tank and had to leave it for about a week due to a flood in my building. When I got them back a colony of local native isopods had moved in and lives with them quite happily as their cleanup crew.
You had me at 5 Isopods. I tried loosing a few small run of the mill Pillbugs and Woodlice in my Toads tank hoping they'd live to do their jobs. She doesn't use most of her tank so I have pet plants too.
I can't express how adorable this whole segment is.
I love when Clint has Russ over
I agree. They make a great team.
Me too!
I love it when you giggle like a little boy when you get excited about learning about something.
That offspring reference got me
I’ve always loved them! As a small child I loved watching them roll and u role!
Two of my favorite youtubers! Awesome collaboration.
Curious what camera did you used, this video was perfect!
This is just further confirming my decision to go bioactive for my bp. Plus I get to add isopod husbandry to my list of hobbies. Stinkin' rad!