I had planned to make my Summer into a post-publishing bonanza, but life had others plans. ☹️ I still have a good month left of Summer break though, so instead of dwelling on that, I'll try to make the most of it and get a bunch of posts out for you guys! Enough said, let's get into this post. ↓
If you guys read my "The Moving Massacre" post, you'd know that I lost my culture of Porcellio spinicornis, otherwise known as Brickwork Isopods, a good while ago. In the meantime, I have discovered much, much better husbandry methods than I was using before and, fast forward a couple days ago, was just able to luck out and find myself a single gravid female! 😃 Oddly enough, my usual collecting site for the species was pretty much void of any noticeable populations except for the one girl, which I miraculously found in a pile of rocks (a microclimate where I don't remember finding any before).
I successfully got her home and provided her with a setup that reflects my new knowledge of the conditions they favor. Said setup consists of a 6 qt. Sterilite container with 3 1/3" ventilation holes in each end, a dry mix of compost soil, topsoil, cypress mulch, and perlite for the substrate with a clump of sphagnum moss (which I will keep moist) in one corner, along with some dead leaves and bark per usual. Basically they like a setup similar to that of the newcomer European isopods - good ventilation with a dry substrate and one moist corner. I'm keeping my female with a bit less ventilation than the Europeans should have (more comparable to Armadillidium ventilation), but things should be fine.
Here's some pics of her and the enclosure!
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| Gravid female P.spinicornis |
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| P.spinicornis enclosure |
That is all for this post; I hope you all enjoyed as much as I did getting my feet wet with the blog again and until next time, goodbye! 😊
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