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Armadillidae

Little Sea Isopod

Cubaris murinaไอโซพอด

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Photograph: Andrew Meeds · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

Burrowing · temperate · humidFrom the sheet: 22–27°C, humidity 70–85%

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Temperature22–27 °C
Humidity70–85 %
Diet7 days

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
22–27°Ambient

One ambient band, 22–27°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet states22-27°C

Humidity

70–85%Target RH

The sheet states70-85% (good ventilation)

Enclosure
2–6 L tub

Identity

Adult size

1.75 m0.8–1.2 cm
1520100400 cm
0.8–1.2 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Order / Family
Isopoda
IUCN / CITES
Not evaluated; CITES not yet in our data
Difficulty
Beginner
Commonality
Common; cheapest Cubaris
Adult size
~0.8–1.2 cm
Lifespan
1.5–3 yrs
Growth rate
Fast breeder for a Cubaris
Activity & niche
Detritivore, burrower
Temperament
Shy, peaceful
Venom / defense
Harmless detritivore; rolls into a ball

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
22–27°C
Humidity
70–85% (good ventilation)
Min. enclosure
2–6 L tub
Substrate
Bioactive soil + leaf litter + rotting wood + limestone
Hides / decor / water
Cork bark, leaf litter, moss

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 7 dAs the sheet states
4Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesLeaf litter, rotting wood, decaying plant matter · Continuous; protein/veg weekly

Staple food
Leaf litter, rotting wood, decaying plant matter
Feeding frequency
Continuous; protein/veg weekly
Supplements
Cuttlebone / crushed limestone (calcium)

Behaviour and handling

HandlingSafe; harmless
CommunalYes – colony/communal; great cleanup crew
Defense / stress signsRolling into a ball, hiding

Reproduction

Life course

Day 0Hatch
1.5–3 yrLifespan in care
1.5 yrMinimum commitment
Sexual maturityNot in our data

Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.

Why

The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own.

Reproduction
Marsupium brooders; prolific

Common health problems

Common health issues
SignsFew; crash only if extremely dry
Red flags / quarantine
SignsQuarantine; watch for pest mites

Good to know

  • Comes in fun morphs like 'Anemone' and 'Papaya'; a tough, forgiving Cubaris.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp22-27°C
A hygrometerbecause humidity70–85% (good ventilation)
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « 2–6 L tub »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

Others in this group

What this sheet states

85%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 6 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: day/night engine and awake count on the globe. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.