Armadillidium klugii| Clown Isopod
 
Description
The length of Armadillidium klugii is around 2cm.
 
A. klugii is greyish brown, and has three rows of white dots running front to back. As they age, the center row turns yellow.
 
Temperature & Humidity
18C - 22C / 64F - 71F
70% - 80%
 
Habitat
With a size like this one, you can easily manage a new colony with a shoebox-sized container.
 
A Tupperware box with some holes poked in for ventilation is an quick way to get started, or you can grab one of the specialist enclosures
 
Be sure to add plenty of softwood branches (like cork bark) and leaf litter too. They’ll really appreciate the natural hiding spots, and it’ll provide a stable source of nutrition for them.
 
Food
Isopods eat a wide and varied diet of detritus and food scraps.
Though rotting woods and leaf litter should form the backbone of any isopod diet, it’s easy to supplement with vegetables and protein sources.
Freeze-dried shrimp and minnows make a convenient protein snack, or fish flakes can often work in a pinch.
 
Just be sure to only add an amount that you think your colony can finish in one sitting. As food can quickly spoil in a high humidity enclosure, inviting a mold and pest party that can quickly spiral out of control.
As with other isopods, a sprinkling of crushed limestone is a crucial element of their diet too.
Cuttlebone and eggshells can be other helpful supplementary calcium sources.
 
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidiidae
Genus: Armadillidium
Species: klugii
 
Food - Decaying plant matter and inverts, rotting oak and beech wood and leaflitter is a good source of food
 
How I Keep Them - I use a leaflitter and keep on the wetter side and it is always good to leave a dry section