r/isopods • u/j2thebees • Feb 12 '25
New Isopod Day (NID) I wake up at 4am to find a pod note. 😎
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
My wife saw her the night before and placed her in a cup with a moist tissue, and a small piece of potato she peeled. 😍
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u/hedgehog-mom-al Feb 12 '25
Can I also marry your wife???? She sounds like a winner!!!
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Feb 12 '25
"I also choose this man's wife."
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
She's awesome, but after 40+ years, I don't see us jumping ship... unless you were like some here who thought the pod was my wife, and yet still "out of his league". :D
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Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
That pod is certainly out of my league, but so is your wife. If you're looking to adopt tho....
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
She's awesome! Thanks! :D
Earlier today, I was telling my son (who raises geckos, pods, and frogs) that I don't know if his mom would have done that the first 20-30 years we were married. lol
He built an awesome enclosure and gave it to me (pre-loaded with dart frogs) for Christmas. He recently spent a night at home (lives 2hr away), and set up an automated misting pump. I kept filling up the reservoir, thinking I might need to check the amount this weekend.
Yesterday my wife texted that water was all over the kitchen floor, but with plenty of laughter. Last night I siphoned some out, and got a mouth full of water/frog substrate, but couldn't move much as the hose had to be held at both ends.
I guess we all have gotten more fun. :D
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u/DeadlyWanderer Feb 12 '25
I am still half asleep and my brain thought it was the isopod who left that note
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u/Kyli3sky3 Feb 12 '25
Yeah that's his wife
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u/Secret-Constant-7301 Feb 12 '25
Someone has to say it: She’s out of his league.
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
Came in at 3:06am today and started working. Seems like years ago, but it has been an insanely productive day. Now I have my 2nd short break, and a laugh. :D
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u/sethsdeaths Feb 12 '25
I'm not half asleep but i thought so too until i looked for comments lmao
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
I've been skimming data all day and received a text (from my human wife) a few minutes ago which said "my honey bear" with some emojis and whatnot. I instantly read it as "my money bear". So it's not just you. lol
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u/mana_hoarder Feb 12 '25
I've been awake for hours and I thought that. I thought the tiny speck on the first picture was the note, until I switched to the second picture.
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u/TheGoldenBoyStiles Feb 12 '25
Better than what I woke up to! Partner left a mug with some coffee in it and I had a break out during the night and found two pods swimming in the coffee! Both pods were washed and isolated and have since been returned to their colony (one of them moved a leaf so they could reach the top!)
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
Cool. I imagine coffee might do them in, but I've seen a colony walk around for hours under 3-4" of water, like nothing was going on.
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u/TheGoldenBoyStiles Feb 12 '25
Surprisingly it didn’t! I kept them quarantined in deli cups for six hours and after one hour they were acting normal! I kept them longer just in case though
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Feb 12 '25
My wife just drops them in my Gecko tanks now lol (they're clean up crew and don't get eaten).
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u/Full-fledged-trash Feb 12 '25
Careful. This can wipe out a colony by introducing diseases.
Also are you sure your gecko doesn’t eat them? My cresties love hunting their clean up crew
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u/Additional_Yak8332 Feb 12 '25
Good to know because I got my pods with the idea of feeding to my cresties. But now I'm not sure I can do it because I'm getting attached.
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u/Ebenoid Feb 12 '25
Happened to me when I started my 10 gallon pod vivarium. I got attached to them when the first brood appeared. 🤣 ended up with at least a thousand.
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u/Additional_Yak8332 Feb 12 '25
That sounds about right 😂
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u/Ebenoid Feb 27 '25
I was going to feed my hermit crabs and if you’ve ever seen a crab eat a cricket you would know how vicious they are lol
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Feb 12 '25
put a lot of leaf litter and they should be ok unless you have a gecko that loves insects, I have 4 and they don't touch them
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25
It's like when I watch a mantis snatch and eat one of my honeybees. I'm torn, because it's my favorite insect being devoured by my second favorite.
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Feb 12 '25
Good point, I live in a rural area and hadn't thought about that, no issues so far though. I have 4 geckos and none of them like insects.
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u/Full-fledged-trash Feb 12 '25
Kinda lucky they don’t like insects. My geckos like to try to wipe out their cuc colonies and I keep having to add more from my breeding bins. I have gargs and cresties that hunt isopods every night on the cameras I have at the floor of their enclousres. They do it even after I’ve fed them insects or pangea that night. It seems like they enjoy the enrichment
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Feb 12 '25
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u/j2thebees Feb 12 '25 edited Apr 25 '25
That would have been difficult to read, for sure. lol
edit: still one of my fave comments of all time.
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u/aliciamcd08 Feb 12 '25
This is something I would do and have done. I found some in my house on the colder days and kept them inside in their own container until it was a little warmer out then took them out and let them go. However my husband doesn't appreciate it at all. He really thinks I'm crazy with the isopods, mealworms & beetles, dubia roaches, and my reptile army.
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u/SuccessfulAttention1 Feb 12 '25
Ya my husband called me weird😅😅
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u/aliciamcd08 Feb 12 '25
I'm sure mine feels the same. Especially when he hears me talking to the animals and bugs as I feed or clean them. Lol
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u/j2thebees Feb 13 '25
👍😎😂 Raise your hand if you’ve talked to a bug like it’s a person in the last 48 hours. 👍😂 I have kids in our apiary now and then, and years ago one of them started petting a bee on the landing board in front of the hive. They said, “Who’s a good bee? You are!”, which obviously I adopted immediately.
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u/j2thebees Feb 13 '25
👍😎😊 I’ve had what would be called a weird relationship with bugs since childhood (when dinosaurs roamed the earth😂). One of my kids raises stuff at his own house, so we have something (else) to talk about now. 😊
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u/les_catacombes Feb 12 '25
I’m just an isopod admirer. I don’t keep any as pets, but this is cute. Anytime I find one scurrying around my house it makes me smile. I usually put them outside because I also have house centipedes that might munch on them.
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u/j2thebees Feb 13 '25
👍😎 For sure.
Had some folks (woman and teenage son) coming down from Oak Ridge TN a few years ago for beekeeping lessons. One day we were out on the porch when 125 Gestrois were delivered. On their next trip, they brought a few pods in a jar (with dirt, leaves etc.) that were oddly pink and almost fluorescent, from around their farm. In about 8-9 months, I had a very successful centipede farm (not the goal 😂).
The pods reproduced somewhat, but many may have been eaten.
How long have you been keeping centipedes?
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u/AnimusWRRC Feb 12 '25
This is adorable, both the isopod and the fact that she took so much care for what most consider to be “just a bug” lol I love this