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Introducing moss to pill bugs


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#1 Offline P0rcelain - Posted November 8 2020 - 4:11 PM

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i have attempted to introduce moss and other plants to my terrariums but my pill bugs keep eating them

is there anything i can do about that or do i basically just have to put plants in dry parts of the terrariums where the pill bugs will not get them?



#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 8 2020 - 4:31 PM

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i have attempted to introduce moss and other plants to my terrariums but my pill bugs keep eating them

is there anything i can do about that or do i basically just have to put plants in dry parts of the terrariums where the pill bugs will not get them?

Either overload the terrarium with moss or take out most of the pillbugs. It's a good idea to let the plants in a terrarium stablish before adding any animals, but you're past that point already.



#3 Offline P0rcelain - Posted November 8 2020 - 4:50 PM

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shoot

well, live and learn i guess



#4 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 8 2020 - 7:05 PM

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Darn I was gonna get some isopods and I wanted plants in the setup. To bad you can't have both. 


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#5 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted November 8 2020 - 7:20 PM

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Darn I was gonna get some isopods and I wanted plants in the setup. To bad you can't have both. 

My isopods did not eat my moss. i kept armidillidium and porcellio and neither ate any of the moss/spider plants/pothos/ random weeds/ bean plants that i stuck in there. :P


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