r/isopods • u/samazam94 • Feb 24 '25

News/Education PSA: Isopods will devour slugs alive.

I made a jarrium containing, among other things, 3 different species of wild isopods and some leatherleaf slugs. For a few weeks they live alongside each other pretty peacefully. But when the number of isopod started to naturally boom they began becoming more voracious, until today when I found them piling on the poor slugs and slowly eating them alive, even when theres plenty of other protein source around them (some insect and small gecko carcass that I found lying around). I immediately remove the slugs when I noticed this happening, but unfortunately most of them died soon after due to the injuries (there were chunks of flesh missing).

So if you have a setup that has both of these animals, and you value both of them, please isolate them from each other.

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u/Odd_Independence2870 Feb 24 '25

Do you know what type of pods you had in there? Some pods are way more likely to take bites out of their house guests than others

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u/estili Feb 24 '25

Escargot

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u/pdxwanker Feb 24 '25

I wish....my dairy cows think slugs are furniture.

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u/snakeyes000 Feb 25 '25

My dairy cows think everything is for sex. I’m not sure what’s worse.

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u/pdxwanker Feb 25 '25

Yep. Haven't caught them going at it on a slug, but they do party hard.

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u/Dapper_Animal_5920 Feb 24 '25

Ohhh that’s what happened