ISOPOD SUBSTRATES DEMYSTIFIED: How to decide what will work best for you
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2023
- A question that comes up regularly is how to make a proper ISOPOD substrate. Demystifying all the differing components available.
Whats good? Whats bad? What helps and how?
Hopefully this video will clear up a lot of those questions you may have that will help you achieve better ISOPOD success.
What other components do you use and why in your mix? Let me know in the comments.
Thanks for watching, sharing and commenting my friends.
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that way of cleaning rot wood is awesome! great idea and thanks for sharing all this knowledge
That’s very kind thank you
Amazing video. Complete and detailed too! Thank you for setting the standard on this.
That’s overly kind my friend but thank you
I agree 100% of your methods. Isopods need microorganism to soften organic matters before they decompose to smaller pieces for more microorganism. I didn’t know how to kill harmful things without killing good microbes, so your video really helped! I’ll use water soaking methods today. Thank you!
May I ask rough ratio of the major ingredients?
Use quite a lotta bogwood in my aquariums... excellent microflora/fauna and sediment starter. When it's broken down enough ta be really soft then it gets dried for buggie setups. Isopods and beetles ❤ it!
Solid plan too
Great idea for a video! This is one of the most confusing parts for people new to terrariums of any kind.
I get asked so often about this very question
1st time finding your videos. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I subscribed right away, and I’m about to see everything else you’ve been sharing. Thanks again!
Welcome aboard! There’s also lots of isopod type content on the original channel. I think not split the channels 6-8 months ago.
Here’s a link to the other channel.
youtube.com/@themadaquarist?si=4Z9zZXTJnMiyWMBU
There’s a playlist specifically for isopods
Excellent video and great advice on substrate thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you my friend
Great video!
I´m only wondering, why you, like many others, always explicitly say HARDwood, when talking about leaves and rotten wood?
This would exclude e.g. trees like aspen, salix or apple .
Maybe it´s just a translation issue?
I´m German and we consider these species (and many others) as softwood and species like oak, beech, maple or ash as hardwood.
I don´t see a reason, why not to give softwood to my pod, do you?!?
My experience as a newbie:
I have a big culture P. laevis orange and smaller ones with white/purple dwarfs and a local species.
They all feed on leafs of beech (of which I have most), but they clearly prefer oak.
And aspen seems to be like candy...
Same with all four species.
No you are 100% correct. I too use leaves of many of those ‘soft woods’ just nothing coniferous.
I don't know how to tell if it's hard wood. Great information.
If it’s white rot like I should in the video clip they won’t care,
Hardwood is just any wood that isn’t pines/firs/spruce/ etc. If it has leaves that fall in the winter it’s probably hardwood
Hi there! Thank you very much for this video. I would like to harvest my substrate from the woods too bc my enclosure is super tiny.
I've been wondering if there's any type of concern with decaying/rot wood since it could add up a significant amount of mold to the enclosure?And also what other kinds of wood could I use?
To solve all of this I thought of using straw but I haven't heard of anyone using it.
Thank you
I’ve had no issues using white rot wood whatsoever. Driving down country roads or walking in the woods it’s like striking gold when I find a tree down with white rot. I’ve never considered straw. Using it on the farm however I would think it would become a slimy soggy mess
what about coconut fiber?
Coir offers nothing to them. Indigestible. I tend to avoid it in my mixes
Are ground or broken down egg shells sufficient for providing calcium to isopods?
Yes an excellent source I use as well as we have a farm. Nothing goes to waste
What that really handsome guy above said lol