The articles kinda get-in-it, but I don't see (on a skim over) that they
address the aquatic types.
The ones you find in your backyard are typically Armadillidium vulgare. They
breathe across a very thin film of water, and will totally drown if they can't
maintain that thin film. In fact, they do better too dry than too wet. They
ways to make the dry times just lean time, wheareas, the too wet times will
just drown them. I think they got to this in your articles.
The aquatic isopods are in the same order, but different genus, Ascellus. I'm
not really sure how the distributions go across the country though for
species. We have aquaticus up here, and another that I can't remember. The
ones we caught in TN and NC a couple weeks ago looked, well, "funny". :)
Todd
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From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of geoffrey kimber
Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 11:46 AM
To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options
Bruce et al-
Are the isopods I find in creeks from time to time a different species
from the isopods I find under rotten logs (that I call pill bugs)?
If so, how long can the terrestrial isopods survuve under water? I
expect that my fish would polish off nearly all the isopods I feed
them, but I wonder if htose that were missed would survive and eat my
plants or die and pollute the tank.
geoff kimber
fredericksburg,va
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