oh boy, i was hoping this wouldnt happen, but sadly i kind of knew it would. I keep isopods as a hobby and when i first saw your post about rubber duckies going in the junglarium i was a bit worried. Even experienced isopod keepers, using much smaller and easier environments can still struggle to get them to thrive. The more fancy isopods are NOT easy to maintain, and many need very specific humidity gradients and temperatures to even start breeding. Substrate is the most important though. isopods are detritivores, so lots of decaying wood, nutrient rich soil and decaying leaf matter. isopods will eat other supplementary foods yes, but decaying wood and leaves is a must for all isopods. (make sure to freeze or bake anything found outside if you dont want uninvited guests showing up) Also, theres a big chance those spiders arent eating them in any way. Their exoskeletons are very very hard, and the isopods you have also conglobate (roll into a ball) so there is very little chance a spider will be able to eat them. A much more likely thing is that they are desiccating or drying out. isopods can dry out in as little as 24 hrs so it wont take long before they dry up and die, especially duckies. duckies are NOTORIOUSLY picky about being very humid. They come from caves in thailand after all! Iv been watching you for a while, and so far iv only seen you keep dairy cows, which are very adaptable and easy to care for. I highly recommend you watch some isopod content here on youtube! you will have a much better chance with these if you do. aquarimax pets, supreme gecko and reptiliatus both have great information available. among many others. anyways good luck, im sure you'll get it figured out
The Helleria are probably dying due to lack of substrate and moisture. I have heard that it is quite a difficult species to keep and I experienced similar problems with my wild collected Tylos.
Maybe it is a good idea to have an enclosure dedicated to breading these more expensive isopods, once you have a strong colony going, you can move some to the junglearium
I wouldn't leave those Theridiidae babies for too long. They reach sexual maturity quickly and are difficult to get rid of. This family covers Latrodectus and Steatoda species and I'm having a really tough time clearing them from my home at the moment. Just when you think you have gotten the last of them, they re-emerge seemingly out of nowhere.
I know your pain! I had that species of spider get in to my Emerald Cockroach enclosure; and it was an absolute bugger to catch. I had to stake it out over several nights and it became my nemesis! That species seems to have really expensive tastes!
Get a lighter, the type with the long nozzle to light stoves or barbecue grills, place the end into the spider hole, press the trigger slightly to release gas into the hole, count to ten or twenty and then pull the trigger fully to light. The gas building up inside will spark and the flash fire will kill the baby spiders and probably the mother. Also, the more expensive isopods should have been kept in a separate breeding enclosure to build up their numbers before releasing into the junglarium. Rubber Ducky Isopods live in limestone caves, so you need a enclosure with some drainage balls at the bottom and then substrate made up of clay, coral sand and coral bits to mimic the limestone environment. Then also add larger coral pieces along with some wood for hides. They love protein so fish flakes are a good food source. A good level of humidity is needed too.
Thank you for staring everything with us…a lot of people who go out and use natural stuff out of there yard ( etc) without doing anything to it; don’t mention the cons of it. Thank you for doing this; really appreciate it. 😊
@@TheDarkDen you still potentially have time, depending on the recording to upload lag, I mentioned it before, its something Ants Canada does, you can take some scoops of substrate from your different 'biomes' in the junglearium [where you originally placed the different isopods] and put it in a separate enclosure [a deep fossorial style one]. Add to that some springtails from the farm [or all your springtails once this starter enclosure is established] and scoops from other enclosures with isopods. The purpose of this enclosure is just to breed soil fauna so when you start a new bioactive enclosure, you take a scoop from the starter enclosure to jumpstart the bioactive setup. Whenever you re-do a bioactive enclosure, or scoop out excavated material, you can dump the substrate directly into the starter, so its critters can mix and you get your own breeds of soil critters that become more and more adapted to the Dark Den [specifically the water you use and your substrate mix. This also saves and re-uses all of your exotic "Sand for the Texture" tm, as future enclosures will have a bit of every older enclosure. You shouldn't really have to stir the enclosure to mix the substrate, as that is what the critters do. This way, if you get more exotic isopods, you can always have a breeding colony of the ones that best survive the dark Den
The ants are Temnothorax sp. Commonly known as Acorn ants, because the full colony can live inside a small acorn. I'm not sure if they are usefull or not inside, but 100% sure that they are not harmful. The max colony size will be a few hundreds. The qween is easily inside (maybe in one of the corkbarks?). She is not much larger than the workers. They can not mate inside the junglearium. They need a naptual flight for that, and at least 2 colonies from the same spicies. For that the chances are really low. The colony can live up to ~5-10 years, and after the queen dies, the colony will die out.
A bit off topic but my girlfriend & I just rescued a cobalt blue and a striped knee from our local flea market on sunday, the guy selling them knew NOTHING about the poor things and he couldn't even remember when they were last fed, they were starved & dehydrated. We rehoused them right away & the striped knee ate a big meal that same day and happy danced for an hour haha The cobalt is still in hiding and refusing food but were going to let her take her time and warm up to the new enclosure but keep trying to coax her with food. She seems like a tough cookie so we're hoping she pulls through. If you have any advice for rescues that would be amazing. We love your videos and always watch you, my girlfriend stays binging your videos haha I wish there was a way I could send you pictures of the rescue t's. We have a lot of other tarantulas as well and you have inspired all of their set ups.
I really don't understand why he didn't just add some soil, like sure it's probably not do or die, but better safe than sorry right? Also, adding a small lizard to the enclosure (temporarily) could solve your spider issue, assuming the lizard is too small to eat isopods, or it's a selective arborial eater, like a chameleon (RIP Felix).
Those are steatoda grossa one of the species in the theridiidae genus often called a false widow, they are very closely related to real widow spiders and have a mildly venomous bite that can cause cramps and swelling and can live for 6 years and go a year or more without food.
Was putting some oak leaf litter in Merulanella Ember Bees and Tricolors this morning. At some point, a fat spider was walking around. Seriously hoping she wasn’t in there all along, as I have a ridiculous amount of money in that particular bin. Appreciate you depth/detail. 👍😃🐞🦎
I love ur channel petko! I’ve been watching your channel for 3+ years! Btw, you look awesome without glasses, but I know there’s functionality to them, so no judgement. I can’t wait to see what’s next in the junglearium!
Make sure you put some boiled sticks and wood in there for them to snack on, and ONLY SPRAY ONE SIDE OF YOUR VIVARIUM! The isopods need to be able to get somewhere dry and cool, so let them choose how moist/dry they can be by spraying only one side, and only mist where absolutely needed!
You could not be more wrong. They need high humidity and the moisture helps them breathe. Obviously don't flood the enclosure but they need constant moisture just to breathe as their gills dry out fairly quickly.
@@BerryMckHawkener P. Sevilla P. Hoffmannseggi P. Magnificus Those isopods need 70% dry 30% moist Their mediterranean isopods Also isopods need a dry side since too much moisture can cause them to die Some isopods like P. Scaber A. Vulgare Need 40% dry 60% moist They all need a moisture gradient Although what you said is true Isopods are crustaceans But mediterranean porcellio isopods dont dry out fast
Oooh steatoda triangulosa!! Had to relocate one of these out of a classroom because my classmates are all arachnophobic but this is my favorite species
@@Free_Born_Tohr I agree. I have many triangulosa, and altho they are rather variable, those spiders are black. Definitely S. grossa or another similar species. One even looked like an actual widow species tbh. I have a set up similar to this with spiders on purpose, specifically for S. triangulosa, with Gyna caffrorum, Euryurus leachii and a large springtail species. I never feed the spiders. Aside from the addition of a female hisser or lobster roach to provide some babies. They actually have produced young in the enclosure, altho there was significant cannabalism, so I resort not to releasing most of the slings after a few molts at the local park.
You say the one spider is too small to catch ispods - when you look at 5:25 onwards you can actually see a small / baby isopods in the web - slightly to the right of the middle of the screen.
@@TheDarkDen There is a little dark grey circle just to the right of the Spider seen at 5:26 that he could be referring to that does look unusually round
I really love the idea of cultivating hand selected species for the junglearium and also allowing the locals to move in slowly as long as they aren't too destructive to the ecosystem
I raise Isopods, but I keep them separate according to species and morph. Now seeing the Rubber duckies in a spider web really hurts. I have a 2-year-old collection that produces young very slowly.
Weve Orange (Cuba) and Panda Isopods in our Enclosures - they dont care for everything at all... they eat Fishfood, Pommes, Radish, Carrots and so on... Dead Wood, Dry Leafes and everything they can get between their Mouths. Theyre amazing
I feel like I kill our enclosures or they don’t hold up as well and I really struggle looking for help because there isn’t the side of mishaps and what you can do to redo it. Maybe I’m bad at what I’m doing but I do so appreciate this video addressing the mistakes and stuff that just happens when you don’t expect it.
I told you! You need to research bro..... you can't mix species... each species also have different care. You needed to set up colonies separate from everything before throwing them in there or get one hardy specie. Isopods hate shock. You gotta start small colonies in 12 quart bins
Sweet chanel and Awesome journey of the Den. oh got a hairy caterpiller that didnt make it, as it poked out of the silk cocoon it spun and died dispite my best to keep my enclosure warm. it also houses my Parabuthus called Rokuro. i am not happy i wont see it molt. fellow arachnid and smaller criters lover. kozmo N
Through my knowledge of arachnids I would deduce that one of the species is Steatoda paykulliana the specie of "Big Momma" and regarding the other ones I would have to check
Those look like false widow spiders. Gotta be careful freehandling those. I have ton of those in my house. Have only been bitten once, but their venom will make you pretty miserable!
The three Spiders are Steatoda sp.(Maybe sp.nobilis or sp.grossa i dont know exactly). they are really cool and common spiders and they can catch and eat preys much bigger than them. So, maybe is better, if u can, to remove all of them from this awesome junglearium. It’really stunning, i love it!! (Sorry for my english, i understand it but i speak it like a dead sheep 😂🐑) Fun fact: Steatoda sp are in the same family of the Latrodectus sp. (Theridiidae) and are also known as “false black widow”, but the venom is not potent like the real black widow. Maybe you just known this but yeah..A big hug Petko! Ah, if u want to collect a Steatoda u can put it in a crickets box, without any type of substrate, only one or two pieces of coarkbark. They love a dry enviroment but they are really adaptable.
Your English is honestly really good! Couple small things I noticed (Not at all trying to be rude! I hope you don't take this badly - genuinely just trying to help bc English is confusing as fuck!) - "preys" should just be "prey" as prey can be singular or plural (like "dead sheep" could be one sheep or multiple sheep, lol) and "maybe is better" should be "maybe it is better" or "maybe it would be better".
The price of isopods is absolutely ridiculous. I understand smaller and rarer things can be worth more but to an extant. A 5mm bug costing more than £20 and beyond is daft.
Buy tuning fork for piano. When you ring this and put on webs spider almost always try to attack as they think it's struggling insect. Then you can catch it.
love your Chanel, but can we get a feeding video we haven't had one in awhile, also i ordered some of your plastic enclosure parts and they work Great!!!!!!!!
Steatoda species can be a pain in the rear end. They're extremely effective while hunting and are nearly everywhere around the world. The Isopods don't have a survival issue in my eyes. They eat rotting matter and need to bury for molting. Everything is in there. It's not like they're not walking and looking for the best conditions. Nature doesn't often come with the best circumstances everywhere.
Can you heat up the enclosure, pre plants and isopods, to reduce the chance of unhelpful bugs, worms, etc? I bake or freeze sticks and leaves to reduce the chance of hitchhikers. 🤷🏻♀️
the ants look like a temnothorax species. super chill and small growing, they usually nest in nuts and hollow sticks so thats probably where they came from
If you get a co2 powered BB pistol you use it to kill those spiders in your closure that you don't want just by hitting with the Air Blast from the CO2 cartridge you don't need any BB's you can also load a little bit of table salt into the barrel to help ensure the kill without damaging your enclosure
@The Dark Den, in your enclosure. Add some carnivorous plants, the non winter-dwelling types. Think it could be cool and they can be fed with fish food etc (the plants).
@@Ulim151 Isopods typically don't like live plants. At least, none in my collection. And the tropical Carnivorous plants typically produce upside down bells, that hang off. Therefore, generally don't make it easy for isopods to climb. None of my Isopods typically enjoy climbing if they can avoid it.
You could get a "salt gun" and load it with sand or salt and dispose of them that way. You would just have to work on the aim and making sure that no other critters are in the way of the blast
Those spiders look a lot like our red back spiders, even the style of webbing. If they are similar in species behaviour they will eat everything that touches their web, and maybe thousands of babies. Will over take the enclosure very quickly
I was surprised when you didn't bake the soil in the oven to sterilize it. it can always be rehydrated but if it transplants something ya cant get rid of its another story. Fingers crossed there is no queen otherwise those ants are gonna take over.
Petko don't feel too bad about the spiders. It's only natural that you'd kill a wild dog if your own dog was in danger. If you have animals, you'll have to eliminate threats to them
From my experience... Some spiders dont like Isopods... I have tried feeding random ones to the Webs i find... And all have been "rejected" or escaped. I think their armor is too annoying for most spiders fangs
Stick a few praying mantis in there. Big enough to take out the spiders and recapture to move to another enclosure if you think they are eating too much. Stick one right in the hole. He will see the spider and stand still for HOURS waiting for lunch time.
have you thought to use some Knockdown or Raid on the lactrodectus species in your tank there? you got babies, its going to get very out of control in there very quickly and i know poisons are not ideal for the channel, but neither is losing your expensive isopods due to predatory insects
and i am only saying lactrodectus, because under that light it is hard to see the tell-tale markings on the abdomen, could be false widows too in there, but still, they are super great at what they do for pest control lol
Petko I did not like you killing the spiders but I still love you and your content. I hope you don't have to squish anymore, you'll have to work out your game plan to outsmart them the next time. 😅 ✌️➕💙
oh boy, i was hoping this wouldnt happen, but sadly i kind of knew it would.
I keep isopods as a hobby and when i first saw your post about rubber duckies going in the junglarium i was a bit worried. Even experienced isopod keepers, using much smaller and easier environments can still struggle to get them to thrive. The more fancy isopods are NOT easy to maintain, and many need very specific humidity gradients and temperatures to even start breeding.
Substrate is the most important though. isopods are detritivores, so lots of decaying wood, nutrient rich soil and decaying leaf matter. isopods will eat other supplementary foods yes, but decaying wood and leaves is a must for all isopods. (make sure to freeze or bake anything found outside if you dont want uninvited guests showing up)
Also, theres a big chance those spiders arent eating them in any way. Their exoskeletons are very very hard, and the isopods you have also conglobate (roll into a ball) so there is very little chance a spider will be able to eat them.
A much more likely thing is that they are desiccating or drying out. isopods can dry out in as little as 24 hrs so it wont take long before they dry up and die, especially duckies. duckies are NOTORIOUSLY picky about being very humid. They come from caves in thailand after all!
Iv been watching you for a while, and so far iv only seen you keep dairy cows, which are very adaptable and easy to care for. I highly recommend you watch some isopod content here on youtube! you will have a much better chance with these if you do.
aquarimax pets, supreme gecko and reptiliatus both have great information available. among many others.
anyways good luck, im sure you'll get it figured out
I hope Petko sees this!
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The Helleria are probably dying due to lack of substrate and moisture. I have heard that it is quite a difficult species to keep and I experienced similar problems with my wild collected Tylos.
Of course he takes animals without ANY education! That's his trademark!
Maybe it is a good idea to have an enclosure dedicated to breading these more expensive isopods, once you have a strong colony going, you can move some to the junglearium
You're an honest dude with honest content, that's what i like about this channel.
That's why I started to watch petco, he's not vulgar, he is informative, he doesn't even talk about random bs, or tries to push his own narratives
@@littlemacky0 o]¹]k(9
Do you know of any dishonest dudes making honest content? Or perhaps honest dudes making dishonest content?
I do not know you Dr. Shin, and honestly for me, that's all what matters
@@freshlizzard9603 that’s cute smart one
I wouldn't leave those Theridiidae babies for too long. They reach sexual maturity quickly and are difficult to get rid of. This family covers Latrodectus and Steatoda species and I'm having a really tough time clearing them from my home at the moment. Just when you think you have gotten the last of them, they re-emerge seemingly out of nowhere.
9:03 the great video video ended...then over 3m of black screen...I was expecting you to pop in at the end and shock us all.😅
I messed up the edit XD
@@TheDarkDen 😂funny stuff I was Skipping throw it slow also lol
I know your pain! I had that species of spider get in to my Emerald Cockroach enclosure; and it was an absolute bugger to catch. I had to stake it out over several nights and it became my nemesis! That species seems to have really expensive tastes!
Petco - maybe pull some isopods out, and start colonies outside the junglearium. Maybe then introduce them once they form bigger colonies.
Get a lighter, the type with the long nozzle to light stoves or barbecue grills, place the end into the spider hole, press the trigger slightly to release gas into the hole, count to ten or twenty and then pull the trigger fully to light. The gas building up inside will spark and the flash fire will kill the baby spiders and probably the mother.
Also, the more expensive isopods should have been kept in a separate breeding enclosure to build up their numbers before releasing into the junglarium. Rubber Ducky Isopods live in limestone caves, so you need a enclosure with some drainage balls at the bottom and then substrate made up of clay, coral sand and coral bits to mimic the limestone environment. Then also add larger coral pieces along with some wood for hides. They love protein so fish flakes are a good food source. A good level of humidity is needed too.
Thank you for staring everything with us…a lot of people who go out and use natural stuff out of there yard ( etc) without doing anything to it; don’t mention the cons of it. Thank you for doing this; really appreciate it. 😊
you should have put them in a bin til they have a good colony you can divide half in a bin other half in the junglearium
could have should have :D
@@TheDarkDen you still potentially have time, depending on the recording to upload lag,
I mentioned it before, its something Ants Canada does, you can take some scoops of substrate from your different 'biomes' in the junglearium [where you originally placed the different isopods] and put it in a separate enclosure [a deep fossorial style one]. Add to that some springtails from the farm [or all your springtails once this starter enclosure is established] and scoops from other enclosures with isopods.
The purpose of this enclosure is just to breed soil fauna so when you start a new bioactive enclosure, you take a scoop from the starter enclosure to jumpstart the bioactive setup.
Whenever you re-do a bioactive enclosure, or scoop out excavated material, you can dump the substrate directly into the starter, so its critters can mix and you get your own breeds of soil critters that become more and more adapted to the Dark Den [specifically the water you use and your substrate mix.
This also saves and re-uses all of your exotic "Sand for the Texture" tm, as future enclosures will have a bit of every older enclosure.
You shouldn't really have to stir the enclosure to mix the substrate, as that is what the critters do.
This way, if you get more exotic isopods, you can always have a breeding colony of the ones that best survive the dark Den
And that is exactly why you should "cook" everything from outside in the oven in 200C for about 15 minutes. Soil, rocks, wood.
Spiders came from the dark den, I have them in few corners
@@TheDarkDen I wasn't really talking about spiders - ants, fungus, mushrooms, snails and all that crap. They came with soil from outside.
@@TheDarkDen only option then is to cook the den! lmao I kid I kid
The ants are Temnothorax sp. Commonly known as Acorn ants, because the full colony can live inside a small acorn. I'm not sure if they are usefull or not inside, but 100% sure that they are not harmful. The max colony size will be a few hundreds. The qween is easily inside (maybe in one of the corkbarks?). She is not much larger than the workers. They can not mate inside the junglearium. They need a naptual flight for that, and at least 2 colonies from the same spicies. For that the chances are really low. The colony can live up to ~5-10 years, and after the queen dies, the colony will die out.
A bit off topic but my girlfriend & I just rescued a cobalt blue and a striped knee from our local flea market on sunday, the guy selling them knew NOTHING about the poor things and he couldn't even remember when they were last fed, they were starved & dehydrated. We rehoused them right away & the striped knee ate a big meal that same day and happy danced for an hour haha The cobalt is still in hiding and refusing food but were going to let her take her time and warm up to the new enclosure but keep trying to coax her with food. She seems like a tough cookie so we're hoping she pulls through. If you have any advice for rescues that would be amazing. We love your videos and always watch you, my girlfriend stays binging your videos haha I wish there was a way I could send you pictures of the rescue t's. We have a lot of other tarantulas as well and you have inspired all of their set ups.
I really don't understand why he didn't just add some soil, like sure it's probably not do or die, but better safe than sorry right?
Also, adding a small lizard to the enclosure (temporarily) could solve your spider issue, assuming the lizard is too small to eat isopods, or it's a selective arborial eater, like a chameleon (RIP Felix).
Those are steatoda grossa one of the species in the theridiidae genus often called a false widow, they are very closely related to real widow spiders and have a mildly venomous bite that can cause cramps and swelling and can live for 6 years and go a year or more without food.
gonna need a few sticky traps on the outside to keep most unwanted pests out ,but to rid them all will be almost impossible
Gonna be at the terraristika too, thrilled to see you there!
Sam from Bugs life is very knowledgeable about isopods, he responds very quickly he has been housing isopods for years!
Mushrooms are a good sign, indicates active breakdown of soil, a natural and necessary process for a bioactive!
Lovin it.
Was putting some oak leaf litter in Merulanella Ember Bees and Tricolors this morning. At some point, a fat spider was walking around. Seriously hoping she wasn’t in there all along, as I have a ridiculous amount of money in that particular bin. Appreciate you depth/detail. 👍😃🐞🦎
I love ur channel petko! I’ve been watching your channel for 3+ years! Btw, you look awesome without glasses, but I know there’s functionality to them, so no judgement.
I can’t wait to see what’s next in the junglearium!
can't stress enough clean stones roots etc. introduced to your "controlled environment"
Brilliant and beautiful how this project came together!! Great job sir! Cannot wait to see it as time goes on!
Thank you man!!
Thanks for the update. Wish it were better news but it's just the beginning. I'm excited to see what more you do with it.
Make sure you put some boiled sticks and wood in there for them to snack on, and ONLY SPRAY ONE SIDE OF YOUR VIVARIUM! The isopods need to be able to get somewhere dry and cool, so let them choose how moist/dry they can be by spraying only one side, and only mist where absolutely needed!
There are plenty of sticks in the substrate!
You could not be more wrong. They need high humidity and the moisture helps them breathe. Obviously don't flood the enclosure but they need constant moisture just to breathe as their gills dry out fairly quickly.
@@BerryMckHawkener Do you culture Isopods??
@@BerryMckHawkener
P. Sevilla
P. Hoffmannseggi
P. Magnificus
Those isopods need
70% dry 30% moist
Their mediterranean isopods
Also isopods need a dry side since too much moisture can cause them to die
Some isopods like
P. Scaber
A. Vulgare
Need 40% dry 60% moist
They all need a moisture gradient
Although what you said is true
Isopods are crustaceans
But mediterranean porcellio isopods dont dry out fast
Oooh steatoda triangulosa!! Had to relocate one of these out of a classroom because my classmates are all arachnophobic but this is my favorite species
I had a mature female S. triangulosa, she started my spider collection!! She actually just passed away a few days ago. She was so fun to watch!
Looked more like a steatoda grossa to me.
@@sleeplessavenue did you not see those white arrow markings on one of them?
@@Free_Born_Tohr I agree. I have many triangulosa, and altho they are rather variable, those spiders are black. Definitely S. grossa or another similar species. One even looked like an actual widow species tbh. I have a set up similar to this with spiders on purpose, specifically for S. triangulosa, with Gyna caffrorum, Euryurus leachii and a large springtail species. I never feed the spiders. Aside from the addition of a female hisser or lobster roach to provide some babies. They actually have produced young in the enclosure, altho there was significant cannabalism, so I resort not to releasing most of the slings after a few molts at the local park.
My boyfriend has been watching your channel since you first started he said he would love if you added a common house spider to your collection :)
Petko switched off the lights! 😂
It really is a learning curve but I hope in the end it's a complete success.
Petko always uploads at the right time, great video 😎
Use a soft air gun to kill the spiders. I used to shoot mosquito’s and flies with one - works great!
put some centipedes in to wipe out the spiders
Awesome Video dark den
That's a junglearium, enjoy those wild spiders !
I can enjoy them AFTER isopods get established xD
@@TheDarkDen In wild type environments, its difficult to really choose inhabitants !
You say the one spider is too small to catch ispods - when you look at 5:25 onwards you can actually see a small / baby isopods in the web - slightly to the right of the middle of the screen.
Hmm, I don't see it, I think that's just wood!
@@TheDarkDen Man's walked right up to that junglearium immediately after reading that comment and gave it another inspection 🤣😂
Def. no wood.
@@TheDarkDen There is a little dark grey circle just to the right of the Spider seen at 5:26 that he could be referring to that does look unusually round
I really love the idea of cultivating hand selected species for the junglearium and also allowing the locals to move in slowly as long as they aren't too destructive to the ecosystem
I raise Isopods, but I keep them separate according to species and morph. Now seeing the Rubber duckies in a spider web really hurts. I have a 2-year-old collection that produces young very slowly.
Add mantis. They will demolish those spiders. My mantis love eating spider slings for breakfast. Yum.
Hello great video information looking good Petcko
That BLACK on end is awesome. 😀
You have to get rid of the threat so good job no one should be mad at you for that.
ehhhh, screw it, you better try and get all those spiders out, i wouldn't risk it anymore. I would get em out bro.
To rid your reptarium of slugs and snails. Place a shallow dish of beer inside. The slugs will dissolve within.
sounds unpleasant O:
the spider you left is a housespider, they will grow pretty big and for sure will eat isopods. and the yollow ants are probably Lasuis flavus.
Weve Orange (Cuba) and Panda Isopods in our Enclosures - they dont care for everything at all... they eat Fishfood, Pommes, Radish, Carrots and so on... Dead Wood, Dry Leafes and everything they can get between their Mouths. Theyre amazing
Aww the great isopods massacre This day will be remembered😢
I feel like I kill our enclosures or they don’t hold up as well and I really struggle looking for help because there isn’t the side of mishaps and what you can do to redo it. Maybe I’m bad at what I’m doing but I do so appreciate this video addressing the mistakes and stuff that just happens when you don’t expect it.
Poor spider 😢
Maybe put the ducks in a small container let them breed them seed tank from your colony ? Ducks breed slow
I told you! You need to research bro..... you can't mix species... each species also have different care. You needed to set up colonies separate from everything before throwing them in there or get one hardy specie. Isopods hate shock. You gotta start small colonies in 12 quart bins
Blow torch with a push button... Don't feel bad, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Sweet chanel and Awesome journey of the Den. oh got a hairy caterpiller that didnt make it, as it poked out of the silk cocoon it spun and died dispite my best to keep my enclosure warm. it also houses my Parabuthus called Rokuro. i am not happy i wont see it molt.
fellow arachnid and smaller criters lover. kozmo N
Through my knowledge of arachnids I would deduce that one of the species is Steatoda paykulliana the specie of "Big Momma" and regarding the other ones I would have to check
I think it would be amazing if you had a common house spider added to your collection !
You can use the buzzing of an electric toothbrush to lure the spiders out!
Those look like false widow spiders. Gotta be careful freehandling those. I have ton of those in my house. Have only been bitten once, but their venom will make you pretty miserable!
The three Spiders are Steatoda sp.(Maybe sp.nobilis or sp.grossa i dont know exactly). they are really cool and common spiders and they can catch and eat preys much bigger than them. So, maybe is better, if u can, to remove all of them from this awesome junglearium. It’really stunning, i love it!! (Sorry for my english, i understand it but i speak it like a dead sheep 😂🐑)
Fun fact: Steatoda sp are in the same family of the Latrodectus sp. (Theridiidae) and are also known as “false black widow”, but the venom is not potent like the real black widow. Maybe you just known this but yeah..A big hug Petko!
Ah, if u want to collect a Steatoda u can put it in a crickets box, without any type of substrate, only one or two pieces of coarkbark. They love a dry enviroment but they are really adaptable.
Likely grossa based on the patterning.
Yeah, looks like Steadoa Grossa to me. Very common in my country as well (England).
@@nebbyscumbold they are really common in Italy too. I have one S.nobilis in the kitchen and one in my room.
Your English is honestly really good! Couple small things I noticed (Not at all trying to be rude! I hope you don't take this badly - genuinely just trying to help bc English is confusing as fuck!) - "preys" should just be "prey" as prey can be singular or plural (like "dead sheep" could be one sheep or multiple sheep, lol) and "maybe is better" should be "maybe it is better" or "maybe it would be better".
@@azuradawn5683 thanks for your corrections. I'm trying to improve my English and any suggestion is helpful! I really appreciate it :)
The price of isopods is absolutely ridiculous. I understand smaller and rarer things can be worth more but to an extant. A 5mm bug costing more than £20 and beyond is daft.
The spiders who eat your isopodes is a stéatoda a pretty cool beast in the Theridiiae branche a cousin of widow
I heard somewhere that one species will dominate and all the rest will die off.
Man, that spider with babies looks like a black widow.
Yep, Black Widows. Looks like that to me also, they are very bad, I was bitten by one and it was gruesome
@@jochenmachine same here. Very painful couple of weeks for me.
Buy tuning fork for piano. When you ring this and put on webs spider almost always try to attack as they think it's struggling insect. Then you can catch it.
love your Chanel, but can we get a feeding video we haven't had one in awhile, also i ordered some of your plastic enclosure parts and they work Great!!!!!!!!
im going to hamm too hope to see u there
I don't know if you can get it there, but the Bug A Salt tool will 100% help you get rid of any unwanted guests in the junglearuium.
We bought one and honestly it isn't as great as you think. They say it will take out wasps but i've yet to kill one with it
@@evilrooster9960 They make ones that are co2 powered now, not just the old spring version.
@@Mac-po1sr ooo didn't know that
@@evilrooster9960 I can barely get mine to kill a horse-fly so I might need to upgrade to the CO2
@Evil Rooster yeah the non co2 are not as good but since it's spiders, you can get close enough to do a lot of damage
Their is a smallish tropical spider that hunts spiders exclusively, maybe if you can, you should get one, I think it is called phoenix but not sure.
Steatoda species can be a pain in the rear end. They're extremely effective while hunting and are nearly everywhere around the world.
The Isopods don't have a survival issue in my eyes. They eat rotting matter and need to bury for molting. Everything is in there. It's not like they're not walking and looking for the best conditions. Nature doesn't often come with the best circumstances everywhere.
Hope you dont get trouble with the ants
Can you heat up the enclosure, pre plants and isopods, to reduce the chance of unhelpful bugs, worms, etc? I bake or freeze sticks and leaves to reduce the chance of hitchhikers. 🤷🏻♀️
maybe add a little spider hunter, some native jumping spiders or something?
OH NO a "spider" (tarantula) channel is having a spider problem, what an unfortunate turn of events!!
the ants look like a temnothorax species. super chill and small growing, they usually nest in nuts and hollow sticks so thats probably where they came from
If you get a co2 powered BB pistol you use it to kill those spiders in your closure that you don't want just by hitting with the Air Blast from the CO2 cartridge you don't need any BB's you can also load a little bit of table salt into the barrel to help ensure the kill without damaging your enclosure
Great video
@The Dark Den, in your enclosure. Add some carnivorous plants, the non winter-dwelling types. Think it could be cool and they can be fed with fish food etc (the plants).
Those would kill the isopods
@@Ulim151 Isopods typically don't like live plants. At least, none in my collection. And the tropical Carnivorous plants typically produce upside down bells, that hang off. Therefore, generally don't make it easy for isopods to climb. None of my Isopods typically enjoy climbing if they can avoid it.
You could get a "salt gun" and load it with sand or salt and dispose of them that way. You would just have to work on the aim and making sure that no other critters are in the way of the blast
It's lookin awso.e 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Expensive food? The tiny duckies
Damm you said that so chill I would be devastated to loose 300+ £ € $ too spider
Those spiders look a lot like our red back spiders, even the style of webbing. If they are similar in species behaviour they will eat everything that touches their web, and maybe thousands of babies. Will over take the enclosure very quickly
Who else thought there was gonna be something else after he said “buh bye” with 3 minutes left well I did and waited to no avail
I was surprised when you didn't bake the soil in the oven to sterilize it. it can always be rehydrated but if it transplants something ya cant get rid of its another story. Fingers crossed there is no queen otherwise those ants are gonna take over.
I stopped doing that like 6 years ago...and for this setup it wouldn't be feasible regardless !
Petko don't feel too bad about the spiders. It's only natural that you'd kill a wild dog if your own dog was in danger. If you have animals, you'll have to eliminate threats to them
You should. Get a Portia spider that will take care of the spider problem
Shoot I Was hoping there was some bonus video but it's just blank. lol. xD
Holy moly look at all the free spiders! Sorry about the “Midnight Munchers”, your setup is going to be EPIC! 😊
Can you add some true soil in an area, to see if that is the issue? RIP Isopods, I hope it gets fixed
What a bougie trio of spooders 🤑
put mourning geckos in it fast so they can hunt down the smaller spiders to keep the population down so they wont eat to many isopods
Why don't you put soil in the substrate?
From my experience... Some spiders dont like Isopods... I have tried feeding random ones to the Webs i find... And all have been "rejected" or escaped. I think their armor is too annoying for most spiders fangs
Stick a few praying mantis in there. Big enough to take out the spiders and recapture to move to another enclosure if you think they are eating too much. Stick one right in the hole. He will see the spider and stand still for HOURS waiting for lunch time.
Ya my praying mantis annoys me
have you thought to use some Knockdown or Raid on the lactrodectus species in your tank there? you got babies, its going to get very out of control in there very quickly and i know poisons are not ideal for the channel, but neither is losing your expensive isopods due to predatory insects
and i am only saying lactrodectus, because under that light it is hard to see the tell-tale markings on the abdomen, could be false widows too in there, but still, they are super great at what they do for pest control lol
I think the "wild life" will take over this enclosure completly. It will be a mess and very time consuming to deal with. And ekspensive...
You've a Steatoda triangulosa for sure and maybe some S. grossa or nobilis, I coudln't see well from the video.
I just relocated a male outside 😂
They will probably worship Petko's hand as a deity that freed them
Very coooool video
I’m cool with the enclosure vids, but I want more tarantula videos.
Petko I did not like you killing the spiders but I still love you and your content.
I hope you don't have to squish anymore, you'll have to work out your game plan to outsmart them the next time. 😅
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Most well-fed spiders ever. Connoisseurs.
Solution: Introduce some local JUMPING SPIDERS into the enclosure.