Helleria brevicornis Care
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- čas přidán 3. 04. 2020
- Beautiful and not widely kept species. Especially outside of Europe. They are well known for their fossorial lifestyle as well as their unique mating and reproductive behaviors. A friend described them as rhino roaches of the Isopod world because of their title of largest land Isopod that can roll into a ball (that we know of) and their diet/lifestyle/lifecycle similarities.
Species is not difficult to care for. Extremely hands off. But you have to get their setup right and not cut corners with substrate ingredients.
This species takes a long time to reproduce and do not like to be disturbed. This will probably be the last time I poke around in here for 6 months apart from occasional water and maybe to bury a piece of food like carrots or mushroom mycelium.
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Wonderful information on this rare sspecies.Thanks few showing them off and for doing this video.
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Those are really cool isopods
Thank you, I have never heard of these kind. Please stay safe.
Very nice, been waiting on a video for these, love these tanks! 😁 (BTW, reason those mites aren't becoming a problem for you is because they're quite obviously a predatory species, and thus rather beneficial to most larger inverts as they eat more annoying pests. Very few invert species are stressed out long term by predatory mites, except for those that they can eat, like other mites, and of course springtails).
Just filled my enclosure for my newly acquired H. Brevicornis with a baked topsoil/cocofiber/flake rotted wood/leaf chop mix with a limestone pellet/calcium carbonate amendment
What are the care requirements I would like to buy some
Would 50 percent moist be good for them because I'm about to buy some soon.
I would love these guys. I love that they have mates. Do they guard their babies?
Yes. The mothers do protect their burrows until they've molted a few times and venture out.
Mites can be a problem with isopods but they is a other small creature can live with isopods and that is earwigs they eat mites and os baby flys and os mold and fungi and I have springtails but the earwigs comes out at night and like wet places if they get out they die it is crazy but the earwigs are very great
Good video, too bad they bury themselves
How do you manage to keep the soil moist down deep, without destroying their tunnels/risk of injury?
Slow deliberate misting. Also a layer of leaf litter on top of the soil prevents you from having to do it super often
Do you keep them warm?
Nah the opposite. They like it on the cooler side compared to most pods.
Would you be willing to sell these anytime soon?
The channel is for educational purposes only. I don't sell anything.