15ct+ Dairy Cow Isopods Porcellio laevis Live Vivarium Clean-up Crew SHIPS FREE

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Shipping:
We are not responsible for orders left in mailboxes! Be available to track your order and retrieve it as soon as it arrives. Boxes are marked for door/porch delivery.
If your temps are above 95*F or below 45*F your order will be marked "Hold at Post Office" for the safety of the animals.
Free shipping is USPS first class, Priority Mail upgrade is available for a small fee. (Only one item in cart needs upgrade for entire order to ship Priority.)
15+ Dairy Cow Isopods (Porcellio laevis)
Comes with care sheet.
Every order is packed over-counted!
Includes FREE sample of Isopod Feast
-biologist formulated complete diet guaranteed to promote breeding and rapid healthy growth-
Natural
Organic
Captive Born/Bred
Shop with confidence from the very same invertebrates supplied to stores, rescues and zoos!
Dairy Cow Isopods are a color morph of Porcellio laevis. P. laevis are believed to have originated in England and are known to inhabit damp areas rich with compost or leaf litter. P. Laevis are prolific breeders once established and raising colonies can be highly rewarding. Laevis grow to be surprisingly large for cleaners and thus make great additions to large terrariums housing large reptiles from tegus to pythons. Porcellio laevis can move extremely fast when startled giving them the nickname "swift woodlouse."
Difficulty:
Beginner
Size:
.71 inches.
Housing:
Plastic storage bin or glass terrarium
Food Preferences:
Decaying wood, cork, vegetables, dried leaves, grasses, lichen, ,
Reptanicals
Isopod Feast
Supplements:
Cuttlebone for calcium
Temp Requirements:
approx. 60 Degrees to 90 Degrees. Extreme cold and heat can be lethal.
Breeding:
Easy - with proper care sub-adults will begin to breed before reaching full size
Substrate:
Coconut coir, peat moss, or
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Bug Bedding
, slightly moist with a layer of leaf litter. This species likes to dig so be sure substrate is 2-3 inches deep
Humidity:
slightly humid, mist one side of enclosure to create a moisture gradient. Keep moss in the moist side of enclosure to help maintain humidity.
Isopods are gaining popularity in the reptile industry for a number of very good reasons. They are nature's janitorial crews! Add them to your home enclosure to reduce mold, feces, decaying matter, and improve substrate health! All while providing a calcium rich, nutritious snack for your critters to enjoy any time they wish.
Enclosure larger than 10 gallons? If you're looking to breed these isopods outside of a vivarium, we'd recommend keeping them in one of our
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Cleaner Breeder Boxes
for easy care and to ensure the health of your isopods. Our kits come complete from substrate, food, everything you need to culture with success!
Our Isopods are fed a mix of organic vegetables and mushrooms twice weekly in addition to our own supplemental food. They are kept on coconut coir substrate with moist sphagnum moss to help maintain humidity, provided cuttlebone for calcium, and cork hides for enrichment.
Don't forget to pick up our
Reptanicals
Isopod Feeder Feast
, a great nutritional addition to fresh food, such as vegetables like carrots. Some isopods, if starved, can consume or chew on delicate critters. Developed by biologists our premium protein packed blend of vitamins minerals and nutrients make the perfect food isopods desire and provide healthy meals for reptiles that consume them!
Shipping:
We are not responsible for orders left in mailboxes! Be available to track your order and retrieve it as soon as it arrives. Boxes are marked for door/porch delivery.
If your temps are above 95*F or below 45*F your order will be marked "Hold at Post Office" for the safety of the animals.
Free shipping is USPS first class, Priority Mail upgrade is available for a small fee. (Only one item in cart needs upgrade for entire order to ship Priority.)
All live animals are shipped Monday-Wednesday
. Orders placed on or after Wednesday at noon will ship the following Monday to avoid spending the weekend at the post office or on a truck. Someone must be present to accept package delivery.
Hot and cold packs are included free of charge as needed.
Cold Temp notice:
We ship dozens of packages every Mon-Wed to sub-freezing temps. Our ultra-insulative packing filler is perfect for winter shipping and negates the need for heat packs. Shipping packs for reptiles max out at 100* (compared to 180* for hot hands) and can easily cook a shipment of springtails as our boxes are extremely well insulated.
We ship USPS (as both UPS and FedEx are unreliable in our area and have lost/left packages). We suggest that you select Priority Mail (also called Expedited shipping) at checkout. This ensures your animals are only in transit for 2 days and your package is insured. Should anything happen to them, your costs are completely covered and a replacement would cost you nothing.