Looks like I missed an eventful session! You started off with what sounded like scrambling fighter jets. On top of that you got spammed. Glad you had people to take care of that for you. Anyway, my favorite line today was in response to someone whose Porcellio scaber were taking off. He said they had already "formed an advanced society". Your response: "Cool! Have they developed written language yet?" LOL
taleandclaw rock A. vulgare can live a few years, most probably three years or less. They can take a year or more to mature, but this depends partly on morph. Some of the morphs are far more prolific than others. (Santa Lucia and Orange Vigor are on the prolific side). Wild caught specimens are often less prolific. Brood size varies with age of female, but they can have up to a hundred or so, I believe.
@@Aquarimax Thanks so much for quick answer. Enjoying my isopod colonies, in Australia no morphs are available, and only very common species generally available ( powder blues, Armidilidium vulgare and Porcellio scaber, and P. laevis mixed rarely) so far i have isolated thriving colonies of P scaber orange, and a white ( wow the whites breed prolifically!!) And slowly developing A.vulgare yellows...had one individual almost entirely yellow, and several chocolate color with yellow instead of grey, so next years refinements will be fun!😃 I notoce the P. scaber Whites i have, most are almost transparent, you can see the dark gut line through their back, but some are solid white with a tinge of yellow, can the solid pale yellow be a separate morph? Also hopping a green A vulgare appears one day....😍
taleandclaw rock it is hard to say if the white with pale yellow but area have more white pigmentation blocking out the dark gut...could be. There is a Calico ‘lemon frost’ morpjh
@@Aquarimax oooo, thankyou. do you have or know of any photos of that 'Lemon Frost' morph? I want to keep the common names the same where morphs look same as USA morphs,, just add Aussie on front, as people get info from many USA vids, and most likely to be similar genetics to morphs there.
Beverly Crabtree Fish food pellets, Supreme Gecko Chow, Repashy Bug Burger, but of fruits and vegetables, and of course plenty of decomposing leaves and wood.
Syhom Xiong Some, like P. ornatus, are available in various localities and/or morphs. Porcellio hoffmannseggi has a very dark morph, the classic grey, and then a sort of chocolate. There are a couple of localities of P. expansus...a white-margined one and an orange. There are others as well. I do have P. dilatatus.
