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Native isopods for clean up crew?
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<blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 198279" data-attributes="member: 37487"><p>I don't use any isopods myself, but I have been thinking about it. As for so many invert related things for these days, I look to eBay. I've been buying a couple of roach colonies from a seller who goes by uk.isopods. Top notch service and animals. Strangely, most of his isopods are sold as mixed morphs and the only one with Latin attached is <em>Porcellio laevis</em>. That's a UK native, though not so hot as tarantula CUCs, I hear.</p><p></p><p>There's also someone on there selling colonies of <em>Androniscus dentiger</em>, another UK native. It honestly astounds me that this species hasn't made more inroads during the current craze for pet isopods and CUCs. Spend all that time trying to isolate orange or white scaber morphs, and there's this species that's already ruby red without any special breeding.</p><p></p><p>I thought about buying some of those myself, but that would spoil the fun of hunting down wild specimens and culturing them myself. Take that, Pokémon Go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vermis, post: 198279, member: 37487"] I don't use any isopods myself, but I have been thinking about it. As for so many invert related things for these days, I look to eBay. I've been buying a couple of roach colonies from a seller who goes by uk.isopods. Top notch service and animals. Strangely, most of his isopods are sold as mixed morphs and the only one with Latin attached is [I]Porcellio laevis[/I]. That's a UK native, though not so hot as tarantula CUCs, I hear. There's also someone on there selling colonies of [I]Androniscus dentiger[/I], another UK native. It honestly astounds me that this species hasn't made more inroads during the current craze for pet isopods and CUCs. Spend all that time trying to isolate orange or white scaber morphs, and there's this species that's already ruby red without any special breeding. I thought about buying some of those myself, but that would spoil the fun of hunting down wild specimens and culturing them myself. Take that, Pokémon Go. [/QUOTE]
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