So I actually ran out of room, I didn't want to home off all my pods. So I put all my Pruinosus morphs together. I started with blue, orange, and crumble. Now I have some very insane color morphs. I even have tri colored. So I guess I made a party mix 😂❤
I've called my leftovers from the Orange Cream cross and adding whiteout. "Candy Crush" because all the colors resemble flavors of candy. Vanilla, chocolate, orange, Oreo crumbles, and Orange Creams. I'm going to cross whiteout with Orange to try and get a more Yellow form. If you want to try that experiment also. I've got Cubaris crossing also to get a Yellow SubMurina.
Yellow Submurina! LOL, I see what you did there! As far as I understand it, 2 copies of the whiteout gene (homozygous ) will remove all evidence of the orange and the pied trait, leaving a visible whiteout. 1 copy (heterozygous) of the won’t have any visible effect. I’ll be interested to hear if you get a different result, though!
@@Aquarimax in my experience if you cross an orange one and a T- morph. In scabers at least I've proven it shows as yellow. I've seen evidence in vulgare but it's unproven. Till I make the cross myself I will not know.
P. Pruinosus are my pet species and this video made me realize I'm missing some morphs. I have powder blue, powder orange, orange koi, oreo crumble and crystal. They're currently all in one colony but I'm gonna have to sort them out soon.
@@Aquarimax I know but unfortunately it has to happen, the koi and crumbles just breed way faster and are way more dominant than the rest. Almost all of my babies are partially white. I had the same amount of crumbles/kois as the rest but I just didn't expect them to be that dominant so unless I sort them out I'll only have those soon.
I’ve had a few calico pop up, many in cultures I’ve sold. I also have a few pop up I call chocolate chip. They are a darker orange/brown spot coloration.
I found some “wild types” in my backyard this fall! I’d been calling them frosted piglets! They’re the first isopods I’ve decided to keep. I had noticed that one was really chill/slow and another was nervous/darts around a lot like the silver bullets. Interesting! I really love this species.
Hi! I love you isopod video's! I'm in Michigan and have been collecting for a few months now. I'm already obsessed! I would love some of your pods! Also would love to share some of mine!
Got my first captive culture of P. pruinosus party mix just back in May, treating me v well. I found it hard to choose just one, having good feelings about it. =>
I was collecting scientic data. About this species: Porcellionides pruinosus have so high genetic differences that probably they have to be split into 2 species. The surface of Porcellionides pruinosus has a plum-like 'bloom' due to the presence of tiny spheres which reflect light. Isopod drought resistance in hours: (Survival time of isopod species in 85% dry air without any access to a water. Kind of thirst survival. Species are listen in order of abundance in Amsterdam region. I included only species >10mm.) Porcellio scaber 51 Philoscia muscorum 32 Oniscus asellus 22 Armadillidium vulgare 73.5 Trachelipus rathkii 22.5 Porcellio spinicornis 83.5 Porcellionides pruinosus 18.5 Isopod inundation resistance in hours: (Survival time in water oxigenated with air bubbles - aquarium.) Porcellio scaber 23 Philoscia muscorum 11 Oniscus asellus 22 Armadillidium vulgare 47 Trachelipus rathkii 255 Porcellio spinicornis 28 Porcellionides pruinosus 39.5 Another experiment of 6 hours dehidration in 30% rh air found dessication resistence: Protracheoniscus politus < Orthometopon planum < Cylisticus convexus < Trachelipus rathkii < Porcellionides pruinosus < Armadillidium vulgare, with a significant advantage of A. vulgare. In the genus Armadillium dessication resistence was: A. zenckeri < A. nasatum < A. versicolor < A. vulgare also with an edge of A. vulgare which lost mutch less water and did not had any mortality in the experiments.
So good video 😊 I live in Russia and I like woodlice. I have some species: Porcellio Laevis "Orange" Porcellio Scaber "Wild‐type" Porcellionides Pruinosus "Blue-Orange powder" Armasillidium granulatum Armadillidium vulgare Armadillidium vulgare "Orange vigor" Hyloniscus riparius Platyathrus schoblii And I have a question: do you have a Platyarthrus?
Watching this while remembering that all of my Porcellionides pruinosus are dead because I forgot to spray the enclosure down before I went to a friend's house.
a great video. I will be getting some powder oranges in a few weeks and was wondering if perhaps orange intensity was a trait that could be bred out? Keep up the good work.
Good question! Powder oranges seem to fairly uniform in intensity, if you set aside humidity and molting. That said, I know of someone who found some almost red isopods in a colony of varying degrees of orange (with white markings). It wasn’t this species…but who knows?
I am no where near being able to id these but my oranges that i got in a mix seem to have the "silver bullet" trait. I would be willing to send some to you just for id factor.
OK, question for you. Are Orange koi and powder whites a thing or is someone trying to capitalize on the hobby and make new names for already existing morphs?
Good question, long answer. Different traits should definitely be given different names, but even similar traits with different origins should have different names, as they may have subtle or not so subtle unique differences. A good example is the difference between ‘American’Magic Potion, which grows larger and more slowly, and had more yellow markings than ‘Japanese Magic Potion’. Calling them the same thing has resulted in confusion and mixing, reducing or removing what once made the strains unique.
I started with 100 a few months ago just for my leopard gecko enclosures, i set up a breeding tub at first, now I have thousands and idk what to do with them 😢
@@Aquarimax i might try selling them, but the market for isopods is quite small here in Indonesia. I have a question, how do you change substrate? Do you do 100%? It's so hard to sieve through the substrate without also getting rid of some of them, especially the babies since they're so small.
hey guys its me again just another question i have picked up another gartesnake on the road and named him and everything scaly and him get along good but today i fed them 4 minnows in a bowl with water they were for both snakes but scaly has eaten all 4 i am a little conerned i have never seen him eat this much and my new snake got none should i be concerned about scalys behaviour
That is pretty normal for garters to eat competitively, and since Scaly is used to the enclosure and your new snake is not, Scaly has an advantage. I would recommend feeding them separately, at least until they are both eating well. Also, FYI, many ‘minnows’ contain thiaminase, which will result in a dangerous vitamin deficiency if fed often. Occasional minnows should be fine, especially if tank raised and fed a nutritious dietS
Grasshoppers aren’t a suitable food, since garters cannot digest a grasshopper’s exoskeleton. They may or may not eat them, but they won’t provide much nutritional value. Nightcrawlers of appropriate size are a good food. Appropriately sized frozen/thawed mice are excellent, that is my staple food, but I also offer nightcrawlers, f/t silversides (fish), guppies, and occasionally, slices of f/t chicken heart.
@@tristinalbright8370 you could cross oranges with Oreo crumbles. The first generation would be all blues, but if you breed that generation of blues together, you would get various colors, including some that are orange with the pied trait.
So I actually ran out of room, I didn't want to home off all my pods. So I put all my Pruinosus morphs together. I started with blue, orange, and crumble. Now I have some very insane color morphs. I even have tri colored. So I guess I made a party mix 😂❤
the silver bullet morph is so interesting!
I've called my leftovers from the Orange Cream cross and adding whiteout. "Candy Crush" because all the colors resemble flavors of candy. Vanilla, chocolate, orange, Oreo crumbles, and Orange Creams.
I'm going to cross whiteout with Orange to try and get a more Yellow form. If you want to try that experiment also. I've got Cubaris crossing also to get a Yellow SubMurina.
Yellow Submurina! LOL, I see what you did there!
As far as I understand it, 2 copies of the whiteout gene (homozygous ) will remove all evidence of the orange and the pied trait, leaving a visible whiteout. 1 copy (heterozygous) of the won’t have any visible effect. I’ll be interested to hear if you get a different result, though!
@@Aquarimax in my experience if you cross an orange one and a T- morph. In scabers at least I've proven it shows as yellow. I've seen evidence in vulgare but it's unproven. Till I make the cross myself I will not know.
P. Pruinosus are my pet species and this video made me realize I'm missing some morphs. I have powder blue, powder orange, orange koi, oreo crumble and crystal. They're currently all in one colony but I'm gonna have to sort them out soon.
Sorting them out may prove to be a multigenerational process, but you’ve got some nice ones there!
@@Aquarimax I know but unfortunately it has to happen, the koi and crumbles just breed way faster and are way more dominant than the rest. Almost all of my babies are partially white. I had the same amount of crumbles/kois as the rest but I just didn't expect them to be that dominant so unless I sort them out I'll only have those soon.
In my experience, those traits are not genetically dominant, but that phenotype could still dominate in your culture for now.
very cool...those party mix isopods sure were active! Thanks again for a fun video Rus.
Some of the most energetic isopods around!
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
I’ve had a few calico pop up, many in cultures I’ve sold. I also have a few pop up I call chocolate chip. They are a darker orange/brown spot coloration.
I found some “wild types” in my backyard this fall! I’d been calling them frosted piglets! They’re the first isopods I’ve decided to keep. I had noticed that one was really chill/slow and another was nervous/darts around a lot like the silver bullets. Interesting! I really love this species.
Hi! I love you isopod video's! I'm in Michigan and have been collecting for a few months now. I'm already obsessed! I would love some of your pods! Also would love to share some of mine!
Thank you, I love to hear that my videos are appreciated 😁 What types do you keep?
Got my first captive culture of P. pruinosus party mix just back in May, treating me v well. I found it hard to choose just one, having good feelings about it. =>
Good choice!
@@Aquarimax If I'm being honest I kinda informed that decision based on your own videos, so I'm not too surprised you'd feel that way haha- ^^
I was collecting scientic data. About this species: Porcellionides pruinosus have so high genetic differences that probably they have to be split into 2 species. The surface of Porcellionides pruinosus has a plum-like 'bloom' due to the presence of tiny spheres which reflect light.
Isopod drought resistance in hours: (Survival time of isopod species in 85% dry air without any access to a water. Kind of thirst survival. Species are listen in order of abundance in Amsterdam region. I included only species >10mm.)
Porcellio scaber 51
Philoscia muscorum 32
Oniscus asellus 22
Armadillidium vulgare 73.5
Trachelipus rathkii 22.5
Porcellio spinicornis 83.5
Porcellionides pruinosus 18.5
Isopod inundation resistance in hours: (Survival time in water oxigenated with air bubbles - aquarium.)
Porcellio scaber 23
Philoscia muscorum 11
Oniscus asellus 22
Armadillidium vulgare 47
Trachelipus rathkii 255
Porcellio spinicornis 28
Porcellionides pruinosus 39.5
Another experiment of 6 hours dehidration in 30% rh air found dessication resistence: Protracheoniscus politus < Orthometopon planum < Cylisticus convexus < Trachelipus rathkii < Porcellionides pruinosus < Armadillidium vulgare, with a significant advantage of A. vulgare. In the genus Armadillium dessication resistence was: A. zenckeri < A. nasatum < A. versicolor < A. vulgare also with an edge of A. vulgare which lost mutch less water and did not had any mortality in the experiments.
Interesting! I would have guessed that P. pruinosus would have done better in the first experiment
I have Oreo Crumbles, and they are amazing! I want more, but I need to improve their enclosure first.
They are amazing indeed!
One of my personal favorites!
Awesome video tonight!
So good video 😊
I live in Russia and I like woodlice. I have some species:
Porcellio Laevis "Orange"
Porcellio Scaber "Wild‐type"
Porcellionides Pruinosus "Blue-Orange powder"
Armasillidium granulatum
Armadillidium vulgare
Armadillidium vulgare "Orange vigor"
Hyloniscus riparius
Platyathrus schoblii
And I have a question: do you have a Platyarthrus?
Thanks for sharing! I haven’t kept that genus.
Thank you
I have over 300 powder orange ones
Watching this while remembering that all of my Porcellionides pruinosus are dead because I forgot to spray the enclosure down before I went to a friend's house.
a great video. I will be getting some powder oranges in a few weeks and was wondering if perhaps orange intensity was a trait that could be bred out? Keep up the good work.
Good question! Powder oranges seem to fairly uniform in intensity, if you set aside humidity and molting. That said, I know of someone who found some almost red isopods in a colony of varying degrees of orange (with white markings). It wasn’t this species…but who knows?
So certain pods when they are in mid shed like that, look like they have fat bottoms,lol. I can only think of the song fat bottom girls by queen.
I wonder if the orange mutation is how it works in other iso species
I am no where near being able to id these but my oranges that i got in a mix seem to have the "silver bullet" trait. I would be willing to send some to you just for id factor.
Interesting! Maybe we should chat more about this
Can you please tell me how to trap isopods in like a place they will without veggies n fruits etc
I couldn't find any with veggies n fruits
OK, question for you. Are Orange koi and powder whites a thing or is someone trying to capitalize on the hobby and make new names for already existing morphs?
Good question, long answer. Different traits should definitely be given different names, but even similar traits with different origins should have different names, as they may have subtle or not so subtle unique differences. A good example is the difference between ‘American’Magic Potion, which grows larger and more slowly, and had more yellow markings than ‘Japanese Magic Potion’. Calling them the same thing has resulted in confusion and mixing, reducing or removing what once made the strains unique.
Hello i can not remember the hotel name for the 2 people that ran a Az herping hotel
Sky Island Adventures, the bed,bug, and breakfast 😁 You’re thinking of Peter Clausen and Jesse Green 👍🏼
@@Aquarimax thanks a lot Russ
I started with 100 a few months ago just for my leopard gecko enclosures, i set up a breeding tub at first, now I have thousands and idk what to do with them 😢
Maybe sell them to other keepers? Or, they make good feeders for a lot of reptiles/amphibians
@@Aquarimax i might try selling them, but the market for isopods is quite small here in Indonesia. I have a question, how do you change substrate? Do you do 100%? It's so hard to sieve through the substrate without also getting rid of some of them, especially the babies since they're so small.
hey guys its me again just another question i have picked up another gartesnake on the road and named him and everything scaly and him get along good but today i fed them 4 minnows in a bowl with water they were for both snakes but scaly has eaten all 4 i am a little conerned i have never seen him eat this much and my new snake got none should i be concerned about scalys behaviour
That is pretty normal for garters to eat competitively, and since Scaly is used to the enclosure and your new snake is not, Scaly has an advantage. I would recommend feeding them separately, at least until they are both eating well. Also, FYI, many ‘minnows’ contain thiaminase, which will result in a dangerous vitamin deficiency if fed often. Occasional minnows should be fine, especially if tank raised and fed a nutritious dietS
Ok thank ypu very much will grahoppers work to for food will they eat them
Grasshoppers aren’t a suitable food, since garters cannot digest a grasshopper’s exoskeleton. They may or may not eat them, but they won’t provide much nutritional value.
Nightcrawlers of appropriate size are a good food. Appropriately sized frozen/thawed mice are excellent, that is my staple food, but I also offer nightcrawlers, f/t silversides (fish), guppies, and occasionally, slices of f/t chicken heart.
Ok thank you very much
U know morph red koi bro
yes, I have seen photos of it. Would love to keep it!
So can I mix breed my powder oranges with a powder blues?
Yes, they are the same species and will interbreed. Wild type (blue) is dominant over orange.
@@Aquarimax oh okay so I wouldn’t get a new color? Just mainly blue, what can I breed with my powder oranges to get a new breed?
@@tristinalbright8370 you could cross oranges with Oreo crumbles. The first generation would be all blues, but if you breed that generation of blues together, you would get various colors, including some that are orange with the pied trait.
@@Aquarimax oh cool thanks