New isopod day for me! I just got 3 Porcellio bolivari, sometimes called "skeleton isopods", from the reptile expo nearby. Presenting Condyle, Lamina, and Lacuna. Kyle, Mina, and Kuna for short.
Thankfully, these ones are easy to sex, with the males having longer uropods than the females (see first pic, with female on left and male on right). Here's hoping they start breeding in the little Hillshire Farm tupperware I've set them up in for now.
Some of the other guys in the pied zebra breeding tub are less flashy, and you wouldn't be able to tell that they're zebra isopods (Armadillidium maculatum) if you didn't know. I only separated this tub out in June, so it remains to be seen if the little babies in there will also develop funky markings.
Patches the pied zebra isopod has grown 2 mm longer and has only gotten handsomer! Top pic is May 2023, bottom pic is July 2023. Hopefully he'll sire more piebald babies.
Flashback Friday to eight awesome tropical inverts (in no particular order), which I encountered this time last year in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.