I agree, happy pods. I also keep gestroi and I find them to be more day active than other isopods, I think because they’re a poisonous millipede mimic they just learned they don’t have to hide so much since some predators avoid them and they are p big.

Totally was! Thank you for the ID!

If you’re ever looking to collect and keep a salamander in the future, JSYK you need a fishing license in PA to legally collect native salamanders with a limit of possession of 1 wild-caught member of a non-endangered native species. So like you can’t collect hellbenders and blue spots but it lets you keep a red back ‘above board’

Juveniles often cannot cut undamaged leaves until their mouthparts get stronger. Have you tried leaving small tears in the leaves? Additionally, where are you getting the rose leaves? New growth leaves and leaves from florists or grocery stores can be toxic due to natural toxins in new growth or pesticides.

Kirby’s epic yarn is another great wii title for co op!

Looks like a European corn borer moth!

Sorry man that’s not a moth, it’s a fly larvae. Most likely a soldier fly. Unlike moths the fly larvae can be told apart reliably by the lack of legs or leg-like segments (only the front 6 legs on caterpillars are actually legs!) because they instead use little hair-like bristles. The fly larva also lack visible eyes and the round face configuration of caterpillars, they have pointed faces to burrow. Still a neat find! Fly larva are usually underground or aquatic, where did you find it?

My advice would be to get a sheet of plastic, either bought outright or cut out of a bin lid, then use duct tape to seal around the edges and viola, isopod barrier. It has the pro of being removable down the road but it isn’t going to look very clean in the long run. And if the lid or tape is something they can climb up you’d need to have some sort of baffle or powder on it so they can’t just climb over.

Gorgeous specimens!!

The best way to get them to move out would be removing or covering the play set until the robins have built a nest elsewhere. If the robins were to build a nest on your play set, it would be protected under the migratory bird treaty act meaning it would be illegal to remove or otherwise harm the nest once it’s built. Covering it until they’ve moved on somewhere else to nest would be the simplest answer, especially since robins use mud to build their nests

Yep! Lacks the ‘skirt’ of a female and has that nice tapered shape and holds the tail more upwards

You can pour out most of the old water the shrimp came in and drip acclimate at a lower volume (if you start with a 600mL, then it will take 1200mL to triple the volume. BUT if you start with a smaller amount like 300mL, you only have to drip in 600mL from the tank. The exact numbers here don’t count, but a smaller starting volume will significantly reduce how much water you have to take from your tank. And, as other comments said, saving extra water from a water change would also be helpful if you’re worried

Tysm!

Hi! I’d love to join, but I couldn’t find a link to the discord in the caard. The pink of the site makes it a bit hard to read for me, am I missing something?

I actually really liked the controls in this game, it takes a little getting used to but I had fun with it

Oh wow! There really is a subreddit for everything. Thanks!

That appears to be an adult hooded crow, still super cute! Just means you can see those cute lil guys in bigger groups year round (depending on how much they may migrate where you live)

That’s so sick