Isopods – Have Your Covered All The Aspects?
Isopods are an intriguing group of crustaceans with over 10,000 estimated species. Found both marine and terrestrial environments - some even living underground! - they play an essential part of food chains by breaking down organic material and recycling nutrients back into soil, as well as maintaining healthy enclosures in terrariums and vivarias by eating animal waste and clearing out dead plant matter, providing essential calcium sources for your frogs, snakes, spiders or reptiles. isopods may seem like pesky nuisances when they scurry around our houses, but we should remember they are simply trying to survive. Their body structure and respiratory system has evolved to work on land while still needing some form of moisture in their environment (albeit less than fish do). With gills on their underside for constant moisture flow they live in moist places such as logs and rock piles where there's consistent humidity - ideal conditions if threatened or in danger; at night they bec...