Asellus with Shanjing

[JacksonR]

I found asellus living in a stream at a state park not far from where I live. The first group I cultured bred well...then I more or less forgot them and they died. lol

I went and got more recently and was keeping them in a plastic tub. Today I decided to move them to my shanjing aquarium. Most of the tank is land with a good water section with hornwort and driftwood with a spongefilter. The water has a nice natural brown tannin color. I'm going to see if they'll breed well in the tank, and if so use them as a source of food for future newt larvea. :happy:

 

[ummi]

AW: Asellus with Shanjing

in all my terrariums I put Asellus, it's not food alone, they are also " accompanying landscape preservation measures". Once a week I rasp carrots in the tank (feed the food), also apple peel...leaves are also importent,
It's nessesary to control the lots of slaters and take out the overmuch. Once I got a red american woodlouse and against expectation they chime together with the german woodlouse,
ummi

 

[Niels D]

I'm using woodlice as well. Can really recommend it.

 

[froggy]

I think Jackson R is talking about Asellus aquaticus, the water hoglouse or water slater, rather than terrestrial woodlice.

C

 

[Logan]

I tried Asellus in an aquarium and they were long lived in the tank but I never saw any offspring. This could be that my newts were eating the young and ignoring the adults but who knows. I also tried Gammarus and they ate all the adults as fast as they could.
Logan

 

[ummi]

AW: Re: Asellus with Shanjing

sorry I have confused

with the asellus it is the same like the woodlouse, they are the waterpolice and hugely useful, also watersnails are very importent. They optimice a waterquality, even at low water volume,
ummi

 

[Jesper]

Beautiful setups and ecosystems you have there Ummi.

 

[FrogEyes]

I think Jackson R is talking about Asellus aquaticus, the water hoglouse or water slater, rather than terrestrial woodlice.

C

More likely Caecidotea or Lirceus sp., of which there are many narrowly distributed species in North America. As noted though, they are "shredders" and generally fill a niche breaking down larger chunks of dead leaves in flowing water. In the west, they are replaced in part by Calasellus, Asellus, and the subterranean Salmasellus. The latter is the only native isopod here, and I have yet to locate any.

Most of the best-known terrestrial isopods in North America, however, are European species. South of glaciation, there are a fair number of native endemics, but the introduced species are the only ones further north, where they are widespread, well-known, and often abundant.

 

[froggy]

Fair enough; I was thinking of UK species! Either way, it is aquatic isopods, not terrestrial ones, that we are talking about.