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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 239010" data-attributes="member: 29323">Tarantulas will eat them, but were you feeding the isopods? I personally add food for them & also dried yeast for my springtails. Neither are any good to us when we need them, if we do not look after them. Also, isopod colonies do suddenly die off. This can be for several different reasons. One is a lack of good ventilation. Another is due to inbreeding. And if we only put a few isopods in an enclosure, then that can be an issue. Another issue is, being an arboreal enclosure, did it have limited substrate & if so could ammonia build up in limited substrate have been an issue? Having a main colony & swapping two or three from a tarantula enclosure with one from the main colony, is good husbandry. I use Spider Shop Iso boost. Two packets lasts me well over a year. I also feed a few dead crickets per colony when I am feeding my T's. And I always have a few dead crickets per feeding day, even with freshly brought crickets. I also use Oak leaves. Oak is handy because it keeps some of it's leaves for a spring leaf fall. This is called  marcescence & it is why Oak is a tree that can populate even the worst soils. It saves some of it's leaves for food during it's period of regrowth. Spring.  I simply pick leaves & allow them to dry & then spray the leaves weekly.Isopods are crustations. But they need both moist & dry soil.</blockquote>