MEET MY DUCKY ISOPODS! How to Setup up a Cubaris Isopod Terrarium

Welcome back to an ISOPOD VIDEO! It's been so long! what do you think of my new ducky isopods? Don't forget to answer today's question of the day! Special thanks go to all my Reptiliatus Channel Patrons for helping make these terrariums possible! For more information on how to support this channel, check out www.patreon.com/Reptiliatus

BRING BACK AN ISOPOD TOUR!!! Would really enjoy that actually 😂

Good luck man! I hope you have success with the duckies this time around.

YES!! Isopod tour, please. I love them. I only have Dairy Cows but they are so much fun!

Those are definitely the coolest most aesthetically pleasing isopod setups I've seen, on par with the one serpa design did! That's saying something!

Tour yes please

What fun! Isopods, I like both of these new Duckies. I do hope you still have the Brown Zebras, to answer your QOTD.

Rubberducky isopods are SO EXPENSIVE you are so lucky to have a friend like Dave to gift you some of these incredible animals.

I know you mention bat guano in your video and how worm castings is a close substitute, but I highly recommend getting your hands on some powdered bat guano to sprinkle into their encolosures. I keep rubber duckies (and white duckies) too and I've watched a couple videos saying that using bat guano can speed up their reproduction rates / how quickly they establish and my rubber duckies keep making babies for me (on my 4th gen now after keeping them for 8 months or so) :) btw I love your videos, keep up the great work

YES! Isopods! And not just any isopods, Cubaris!

Yes more isopods videos!! As a new subscriber, im loving your videos from the uk 😊

Omg yes, PLEASE do another isopod collection tour!! I miss seeing them and would love to see what kinds you're keeping currently

I find all the cubaris are the cutest! Would love to see your other isopods and how these guys do in the future 🙂

Looking really nice..

Hey Dayyan, I would actually not sterilize the wood. Microbial activity, specifically that of fungus, is very important. Wood decaying fungus--often categorized into white rot, brown rot, and soft rot--break down polymeres and allow the wood to be palatable for the isopods. Enzymes they produce deconstruct the cellulose, hemicellulose, and (in the case of white rot) the lignin, which provide immense nutritional value to the isopods. Soaking the wood for 48 hours or more, quarantining for at least a week (I do so for as long as possible), then repeating the soaking process is a great way to get rid of the macro life. The main concerns are: (1) predatory creatures like centipedes, mites, and spiders; (2) creatures that will compete with the isopods like other species and millipedes; and (3) pathogens. The first soaking ensures that number one and two are killed, the second soaking makes sure that, in the rare scenario osmosis didn't get to the eggs, newly hatched critters are killed, and the quarantining makes sure any pathogens don't make it (note: the risk for pathogens in very small). It probably doesn't matter that much though, have a good one :)

Isopods finally here!

I just started my journey with rubber duckies as well! Funny cause i watched ur past videos for info and here u are making more content! Right on time to help me with my journey lol

Isopods are awesome. Rolly pollys are we call them where I live and we loved playing with them when we were children. They were everywhere!

I miss the long videos and I always liked the isos content. They're such cool animals

Of course we'd love an isopod tour! I only have two species, kept together- Armadillidium vulgare and some Trichorina tomentosa. The Pillbugs are tough as NAILS and a great intro. the Dwarf Whites live more under the soil so they work as a good team with the Pillbugs to clean in the bioactive snake enclosure, but most of my isopods live together in their Culture tank habitat with lots of leaves, soil, flake soil and a chunk of cork, and a lil peace garden of a tiny buddha and a little fake tree- just to make it nice for me to look at. The Pillbugs are mad for protein. They like dried bugs & shrimp, snake sheds, quality fish flakes, and will strip down an entire pinkie in 48 hours. They get fed springtail diet and veggies too.