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This shrimp in particular (my only orange & white shrimp) loooooves to lay down in the weirdest, deadest position possible and scare me until I poke it with a net and it just casually swims away

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scuds maybe please do not put cherry shrimp in this thing

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah i actually do have a couple cherry shrimp for Aesthetic (tm) reasons in the tiny 3 gal and they're all still alive just because its crammed with tons of rocks and fast growing plants so I guess with the right setup its fine

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah! If youre in a city or an outdoorsy town check out used gear shops, sometimes they'll carry stuff that shouldn't be used for climbing anymore but is still 100% effective for keys or any other use that doesn't involve saving the life of an average sized adult falling 10 feet

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not a lesbian but climber & dabbled in high angle rescue, they're pricy but can't go wrong with black diamond nonlocking beaner, or anything for quickdraws. Downside (other than price) if you ever get into climbing, everyone uses the same one, I've almost accidentally stolen people's keys at the gym

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TRUE. Though I had couple juvenile virile crayfish similar size just to look at something while the tank was cycling (RIP they survived the cycle but were sacrificed to become rodent chow) they both would literally just mind their own buisness. I think if Kathy met them she would've taken them both.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In honor of her living on my computer desk, and knowing a lot of people from Maine with this name, I call her Kathy from HR... I don't actually know if it's female but Kevin from HR just doesn't have the same ring to it.

An orange crayfish among rocks and freshwater plants.

An orange crayfish climbing up a dead twig, with colorful rocks out of focus in the background

Crayfish on a twig, zoomed out to reveal the edge of a cylindrical fisbtank and a person's hand for scale. The crayfish is about an inch and a half long, no bigger than a grasshopper.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here she's throwing hands with a ramshorn snail (dont think the snail noticed/cared). She doesn't seem to perceive anything smaller than a bladder snail, hasn't touched any scuds. However she will charge me whenever I walk up to my computer, has tried to fight my hand, my net, and a turkey baster

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got a Mexican dwarf crayfish based on info saying they were peaceful and safe w/ shrimp. But I must have gotten the Hannibal Lector of dwarf crayfish because this one killed two in under an hour. I don't even know how how two shrimp fit inside that tiny body. She's been imprisoned in the scud tank.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unrelated but my brother got me this realistic mini soup bowl from Taiwan and its making me realize how much the vase looks like soup

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Instead of torturing a beta fish in your tiny plant vase, consider: ostracods. They're physically indistinguishable from a sesame seed in size and appearance but they have a lot of personality i swear.

A glass bowl with a pothos plant and some rocks in it on a computer desk.

Macro photo of a small clam-like crustacean through glass, circled in red with a digital marker.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trying to send a nice selfie to my parents but someone kept squinting and smirking

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How is her quoting the exact website you linked but apparently didn't read diminishing your trauma. You made a mistake. Happens to all of us. Just take the L and go outside bud.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That's alright ill be in Austin, I live in AZ so more scared of the humidity lol

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ily but Im not doing all to my mobile phone for for a 4 day trip

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyways going to Texas for a weekend concert and dont want to give bluesky my PII so see you all later 🤠

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Almost missed my bus to the airport to get a photo of this guy... literally just a doggy

A marbled tan weevil with a short broad snout dipped in black perched on a finger. It is in a 3/4ths view.

A marbled tan weevil with a short broad snout dipped in black perched on a finger. It is in side view.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Makes sense I personally have never owned a rat who liked water haha

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think it's an out of focus dirt speck from the front glass panel hahaha

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tried to duplicate that enrichment for rodents where they "bob" for peas in shallow water but they decided to fill the bowl with dirt, dig the peas out, decide they dont like peas, and ate some of the dirt instead

A white mouse with its back turned to a dirt covered pea

A soil-flecked brown mouse squeezing out of a plastic bun full of dirt. A white mouse can be seen from inside the bin with her tail sticking out

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the best mixed drinks I've had this year were pickle themed in some way. Shoutout to the Pickle Margarita of Terlingua Texas and the Pickle Martini of Southwest Harbor Maine, which I liked more than their non-pickle counterparts.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

They are so cute and fun to watch whyyyy can't they stay tiny and nonaggressive forever (virile crayfish, sadly super invasive in my state and can grow up to 5 inches. Once I it grows bigger it will either need to go in a separate gigantic tank or sadly have to be culled)

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me: That hike was only like 7 or 8 miles, I dunno why I'm so tired! Must just be a low energy day. The 50 pounds of rocks that somehow ended in my backpack:

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#invertefest Crawbaby tries to say hi to a snail but gets shy and leaves (leafs)

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OH!!! Never seen a millipede so soft before... I was way off!

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No clue what these are but I love them. They look like an isopod and a bristleworm had a baby, but my best offhand guess is some kind of scale insect? Always find something new!

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#invertefest pretty good day of aquatic inverting... goal #1 was to kidnap some freshwater amphipods for my aquarium so anything beyond that was a bonus

A backswinmer bug. An aquatic insect that superficially resembles a cicada, but with long legs and sharp claws in the front. It has a striking red and black pattern.

A crawfish being pinched between fingers.

An insect nymph. It has a long, delicate, semi-transluscent body with gills that fan out and three plumes off the end of its abdomen.

A shiny black ground beetle with red legs, partially hiding itself beneath a piece of sharp rock or glass.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ostracods! A tiny freshwater crustacean

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ostracods! Probably cypridids, a large freshwater group. Got lucky, they were by a storm drainage in a rare clean spot of water thanks to reeds. Just downstream was a duck poop filled pond that probably had zero oxygen and didn't look like it had signs of life. Except ducks and giardia I guess.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Got my macro lens to cooperate with my camera. Enjoy some pond scum creatures.

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