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I don't keep isopods (yet), so what do I know that those YouTube keepers don't, and I understand the benefits of a humidity gradient; but having the majority of an isopod enclosure be dry just comes across like bad advice. The behaviour of your isopods...

... also seems to suggest they don't like it quite that dry. Maybe they emerge and eagerly ramble about the dry side before retreating the moisture, I dunno. If it were me, I might try reverting to the less extreme humidity gradient.

Mouldy wood, again, not much first-hand experience, but I've been up and down [USER=4652]@Hisserdude[/USER]'s blog recently, and the unworried aside in this post stuck in my mind:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://invertebratedude.blogspot.com/2017/12/roach-babies-pystalla-ups-and-downs.html?m=1[/URL]

It's something I try to keep in mind myself, when I see some fluff appear on the bark in my new roach colonies.

<blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 198560" data-attributes="member: 37487"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?&nbsp; &nbsp; o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" />I don't keep isopods (yet), so what do I know that those YouTube keepers don't, and I understand the benefits of a humidity gradient; but having the majority of an isopod enclosure be dry just comes across like bad advice. The behaviour of your isopods...... also seems to suggest they don't like it quite that dry. Maybe they emerge and eagerly ramble about the dry side before retreating the moisture, I dunno. If it were me, I might try reverting to the less extreme humidity gradient.Mouldy wood, again, not much first-hand experience, but I've been up and down [USER=4652]@Hisserdude[/USER]'s blog recently, and the unworried aside in this post stuck in my mind:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://invertebratedude.blogspot.com/2017/12/roach-babies-pystalla-ups-and-downs.html?m=1[/URL]It's something I try to keep in mind myself, when I see some fluff appear on the bark in my new roach colonies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vermis, post: 198560, member: 37487"] o_O I don't keep isopods (yet), so what do I know that those YouTube keepers don't, and I understand the benefits of a humidity gradient; but having the majority of an [I]isopod[/I] enclosure be dry just comes across like bad advice. The behaviour of your isopods... ... also seems to suggest they don't like it quite [I]that[/I] dry. Maybe they emerge and eagerly ramble about the dry side before retreating the moisture, I dunno. If it were me, I might try reverting to the less extreme humidity gradient. Mouldy wood, again, not much first-hand experience, but I've been up and down [USER=4652]@Hisserdude[/USER]'s blog recently, and the unworried aside in this post stuck in my mind: [URL unfurl="true"]https://invertebratedude.blogspot.com/2017/12/roach-babies-pystalla-ups-and-downs.html?m=1[/URL] It's something I try to keep in mind myself, when I see some fluff appear on the bark in my new roach colonies. [/QUOTE]

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