They will fix it up.
don't have to worry about that to much.

If you don't clean it out you could end up with mites and other things you don't really want in your tank.

You can find Isopods in moist places, under bricks, leaves, grass, under fallen logs in ones garden.

oh great! thought you meant having to buy special ones :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

Just don't use the Isopods from your garden if you have sprayed poison.
If you go through the thread one of the photo's has Isopods in the picture.

As I normally do every night when sitting on the couch, I observe my communal. noob

Over the last couple of days I have noticed tunnels in the palm peat against the glass.
I had no Idea what they were and what was making them.
Not the first time I have seen these tunnels in other larger enclosures, as I said I don't have a clue what is making them.

Well this evening I found them, worms.
I think they are mealworms, not so sure though.but still interesting to find life in the set-up that I did not put there.

Tunnels



Worms

Update: 16/03/2013

The past couple of days there has been allot of movement, some homeless spiders, some major cleaning, doubling of numbers and some growing up that has been done.

So first off.
The growing in numbers and major cleaning.

The Isopods have doubled in numbers; which in turn, means a supper clean tank, so clean that the Isopods seem to taking it easy.
The Isopods get the leaves as a main source of food, anything else in the enclosure is desert for them.
Normally the leaves in the fallen forest last for a couple of months.
With the amount of Isopods in the enclosure, the leaves are only lasting about 2 weeks and then I have to replace them.
I normally give them 2 handfuls of leaves, soaked in water.
It is actually allot of leaves.

I still subsidise the Isopods, roaches and sometimes the crickets food for them, as the enclosure is not a self staining environment, so every other day they might get some greens just to keep them going.
On Friday night they got a whole carrot.
Something interesting from that, in the one picture you will notice that some of the Isopods are orange.
That is the carrot that they have been feeding on.





Homeless spiders

Over Thursday there were 3 spiders that had become homeless; they were wondering around the enclosure aimlessly.
We will call them Spider A - B - C
Spider – B, in desperation to find a place to hide, he kept trying to go into different burrows; every time he tried to enter a new entrance, the burrow’s owner would chase him away.
He tried this 5 times, eventually he went and park off under some leaves.
On the 16th he had made a burrow in the fallen forest.
Here is he’s started burrow.



This afternoon 17/03/13 he had webbed some leaves and bark together to make an entrance.





Spider – C, moved into the left hand corner of the tank, rocky ridge staying with the slings.





Spider – A, made burrow in the fallen forest as well.

Growing up

That time in one’s life when you need to say goodbye, go out on your own and start something great, has arrived!

My whole excitement with having slings, is the webbing that comes from the female. For the slings to climb on and molt.
This webbing can be very elaborate, gracefully draped webbing. Which is just plan stunning in simple English.

The female only webbed up to a point, and went on a break,I would give it a 5 out of 10, on the webbing scoring board , I have had 8 and 9 out 10 before with other females, smaller tanks though. :spider: :lol:
The slings have also been very inactive and only come out every other day, only a couple of slings are seen at one time.
The Mother of the slings closed her entrance off about 2 weeks ago.





With her doing this, 2 larger spiders have moved in, or have always been staying their but just more active now that she is not "around".
If counting correctly there is 3 to 4 larger spiders staying in and around the females burrow.

Moving out.
It took a bit longer than what I thought it would, the first few slings have left home and have moved into their new "digs"
Some have just moved into established homes and other have made new homes for them selves.

What I find the most interesting and don't know if it is indeed fact or just coincident but it seems the slings that have moved out, move out in pairs, like a partner ship.

This was the 2^nd pair of slings that had moved out, which was on Saturday the 16^th.
As you can see, these 2 have moved in with this larger spider.
They have taken over he's burrow, even started doing some alterations on the outside webbing.





The 1^st pair that moved away.



The sider that was sitting against the log was the one that was busy webbing up, when the 2nd spider came out as to tell it to come inside. at this point I had removed the glass lid to take pictures from the top.

Some photo's of the 2^nd pair that moved out.

As I said in the above post they started making alterations to the existing burrow.
The larger spider uses the back entrance as he's place to stand, the front entrance is for the 2 smaller slings.

Through and through. The new home of the 2 slings.



I have a whole line of photo's where the sling came out first and directly after the sling the leg of the larger spider came out behind it.Not going to post it all though.



Walking around the foot in the way.



New style of web building.



Pulling the web



Some more pulling.



And even more pulling.