More specifically $300 for 5 of them.

>>4998376 (OP)
Nah. Now spiky isopods, that'd be a different story.

>>4998383
Damn those look pretty kick ass

>>4998376 (OP)
I'll give you a buck for both of them. What's an isopod? I think I have one of those in my kitchen.

>>4998376 (OP)
>>4998383
Cambiram-ass looking retards

>>4998417
kill yourself

Were rubber duckies the beginning of the fancy isopod craze? Feels like they came in as this expensive novelty among isopods and costing a lot more than the regular ones, and now a few years later there's all kinds of crazy rarities in the hobby.

>>4998421
I think so. When they were first on the market they costed 100s and people bought them at that value. Soon after that everyone wanted to recreate that craze

wot if

>>4998419
lol mad

>>4998426
it's all pyramid skeem backyuard breeders paying out the ass for animals under the assumption taht they would be able to charge the ass themsleves. doesnt help that their care is basically "keep a box of dirt moist and feed them leaves" and they reproduce with zero input from the keeper.

>>4998421
It's weird seeing things like panda king selling for cheap when they used to be mythic tier a few years ago.
Meanwhile rubber duckies have maintained their crazy prices.

>>4998417
He beat your grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's (insert 50 million more) grandpa's ass!

>>4998376 (OP)
It would be cheaper to fly to Thailand and collect a bunch of these for free. Maybe even smuggle them back for a profit

>>4998463
Damn

>>4998376 (OP)
Thanks for the meme idea

>>4998506
>"keep a box of dirt moist and feed them leaves"
Seems like a really low maintenance pet, while being cooler than "yeast."

>>5000423
That's literally it.
You spend like $30 on a tub and the substrate ingredients and you can keep colonies going for years, with a weekly/biweekly handful of leaves and some water.
It's cool they're in petstores now but I'm surprised that isopods weren't established as the go to cheap pet for beginners and children decades ago.

Think of all the fish, lizards, and hermit crabs that could've been saved if kids had to prove to their parents that they could keep dirt alive first.

>>4998506
I fell for that with springtails. Still trying to get a colony going but its clear that I am holding the bag sort of situation. Honestly the whole invertabrate and reptile/amphibian scene is chock full of pyramid skeems with the morph market. Stuff like the "Raw Chicken" pac man morphs that are so inbred that it is virtually impossible to raise a healthy adult, but people will still try to and buy them for $1000s in the vain hope of being the one guy to successfully breed a few hundred of them with the morph intact

>>4998376 (OP)
I don't like the fact they just sit in dirt it's not very decorative
with shrimps you can make a cool looking planted aquarium it looks nice in the house

>>5000835
>Honestly the whole invertabrate and reptile/amphibian scene is chock full of pyramid skeems
It's really fucking annoying but I bit the bullet and shilled out $600 for a group of fire belly toads. Those fuckers used to be $5 each when I was a little kid and now they're $50.

These retard breeders on faceberg say "oh they're expensive because its so hard to raise the froglets" but it's not, they're just retarded. It's maybe five or ten minutes of work a day. Mine already bred unexpectedly (wow who would have thought keeping an animal fat and healthy will make it breed) and I had to learn how to culture fruit flies for the first time. Oh wait that's also easy if you're not a retard and now I have enough fruit flies for the rest of the year for the price of $20 of shit from walmart.

I can't wait to crash the market by selling them for dirt cheap.

>>5000999
>TOAD STONKS GO UP

>>5000816
>>5000423
thing is only some species are more entertaining than the yeast, most you will never actually see unless you're deliberately fucking with them, and even then it's just "I lift a cork slab up and there are bugs on it," expensive-ass duckies included.
You could probably start a colony of Armadillidium vulgare for free if you live anywhere within driving distance of the woods - just stick a concrete paver in a cool moist place and come back in a week with a shovel and a bucket.

>>5000999
Based toad salesman

>>5000835
>Honestly the whole invertabrate and reptile/amphibian scene is chock full of pyramid skeems with the morph market. Stuff like the "Raw Chicken" pac man morphs that are so inbred that it is virtually impossible to raise a healthy adult, but people will still try to and buy them for $1000s in the vain hope of being the one guy to successfully breed a few hundred of them with the morph intact
Sounds like every breeder with every pet.
Fuck pedigrees, fuck designer pets.

>>5000999
Checked based frog anon. A fire belly toad was my first pet as a kid and now I want another one. I wish you luck on crashing the market.

fire belly toad stocks in free fall, billions homeless