25+ Powder Orange Isopods Porcellionides pruinosus Vivarium Clean-up Crew

Description

Shipping:
We offer
FREE Priority Mail Shipping
on all Live Isopods orders.
Due to extreme temperature across the US, if your local temps are below 40*F
or above 85*F your order will be marked
"HOLD at Post Office" for Live Arrival Guarantee.
25+ Powder Orange Isopods (Porcellionides pruinosus)
Comes with care sheet.
Every order is packed over-counted!
Includes FREE sample of Reptanicals Isopod Feast
-biologist formulated complete diet guaranteed to promote breeding and rapid healthy growth-
Great species for beginners! These guys will breed and establish themselves very quickly so they are great for feeders too! An awesome addition to any bio-active set up or gecko tank!
Natural
Organic
Captive Born/Bred
Shop with confidence from the very same invertebrates supplied to stores, rescues and zoos!
Porcellionides pruinosus or Powder Orange isopods, are a hardy species that reproduces quickly once established. Powder oranges are especially fond of feces from numerous animal species. Add them to a terrarium to consume messes that you would rather not clean. In gecko tanks - rinse solid matter off walls and into the substrate with a sprayer and the isopods will do the rest! These isopods are large (for cleaners), active, colorful and extremely fast! They look peach when immature and become a beautiful powdery orange color in adulthood (hence the name!)
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Porcellionides pruinosus - Powder Orange
Difficulty:
Beginner
Size:
.5 inches.
Housing:
Plastic storage bin or glass terrarium
Food Preferences:
Vegetables, dried leaves, grasses, decaying matter,
Reptanicals'
Isopod Feast
Temp Requirements:
approx. 65 Degrees to 85 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
Reptanicals
Bug Bedding
, slightly moist with a layer of leaf litter
Humidity:
slightly humid to dry. (Water just one side of the enclosure to create a moisture gradient)
Isopods are gaining popularity in the reptile industry for a number of very good reasons. They are natures' janitorial crews! Add them to your home enclosure to create a Bio-Active ecosystem like nature intended. Isopods 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
Reptanicals
Cleaner Breeder Boxes
for easy care and to ensure the health of your isopods. Our kits come complete with substrate, food, moss - 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
Reptanicals
Isopod Feast
. They are kept on
Reptanicals
Bug Bedding
, sprinkled with leaf litter. We include moist sphagnum moss to help maintain humidity, provide cuttlebone for calcium and cork hides for enrichment.
Don't forget to pick up our
Reptanicals
Isopod Feast
, a great nutritionally complete diet. Use it in 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 gut-loading cuisine isopods can't get enough of!
Don't miss out on our additional Reptanicals isopods species and products!
Shipping:
We offer FREE Priority Mail Shipping on all Live Isopods orders.
Due to extreme temperature across the US, if your local temps are below 40*F
or above 85*F your order will be marked
"HOLD at Post Office" for Live Arrival Guarantee.
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/isopods as our boxes are extremely well insulated.
If your temps are below 40*F your order will be marked "HOLD at Post Office" for Live Arrival Guarantee.
We ship isopods USPS Priority Mail (as both UPS and FedEx are unreliable in our area and have lost/left packages) 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.
Hot Temp notice:
If your temps are above 85*F  your order will be marked "HOLD at Post Office" for Live Arrival Guarantee.