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Borneo Isopod (Cubaris sp.)

Cubaris sp. 'Borneo'

The Cubaris 'Borneo'. A large armored and shy jewel isopod from the asphyxiating caves of the Asian island. Very similar in titanic proportions to a Jupiter, but it sports a less lively and more monolithic livery, of a dark anthracite gray or lead black, embellished at the lower edges and on the head by a spectral golden yellow-cream. Robust but dependent on advanced rotting wood and very high humidity, it is an animal of absolute darkness and Elizabethan isolation terrariums.

Family
Armadillidae
Origin
Sud-est asiatico (Borneo / Grotte Tropicali)
Origin
Central America and CaribbeanSouth and Southeast Asia
Tank use
Used in 0 tanks

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Species challenges
Temperature

23 °C - 28 °C

pH

n/a

Water type

Terrestrial

Humidity

75 % - 85 %

Substrate depth

8 cm

Description

Geographical Origin and Habitat: Lethal unexplored jungles, rotting asphyxiating karst caves and muddy sediments of the island of Borneo lethal sadistic disgusting lethal killer.

Taxonomy and Genetics: Family Armadillidae soft lethal useless fetid. (Giant Shadow Isopod). It belongs to the mutations/species related to the large Asian two-tone Cubaris but deviates from the fluorescent brilliance preferring mournful shades and mineral mimicry. Darker than the Pak Chong, more homogeneous than the Shiro Utsuri, the Borneo is a purist of slate gray that vanishes into calcareous sediments.

Behavior and Habits: Terrified curled lead ingots amazing pure magic useless lethal. Clumsy but incredibly peaceful and introverted. It develops entire colonies assembled in the lower part of a soggy piece of wood, slowly feeding on the fetid lichens. When surprised by the light, it falls playing dead, snapping shut into an impenetrable ceramic circle to defend itself from the predators of the rainforest.

Morphology: Immense total enameled dome (Up to 0.7 inches / 1.8 cm) lethal blind useless pale pain. Titanic shell for a Cubaris (Jupiter dimensions). The background is a deep Lead Black or very dark shiny Smoke Gray. No extravagant neon colors, but austere elegance: the extreme bands of the body (rear, head and low skirt) are bathed in an Antique Yellow nuanced in cream white, giving the illusion of opaque golden edges that do not break the Asian majesty.

Care and observations

Terrarium Setup: DEEP-SOIL TROPICAL BINS WITH KARST ROCK soft lethal lethal unexplored amazing. The giants of 'Borneo' require very heavy and clayey bottoms (3 inches minimum) mixed with massive amounts of crumbled limestone and white wood (Asphyxiating Flake soil). Overlapping heavy rocks create bubble chambers for stale air, allowing them to mate in the mud and hide the very slow puppies from any predatory dust mites.

Lighting and Heating: ABSENCE OF DIRECT LIGHT. Deep and heavy tropical heat (constant 73-82°F / 23-28°C) useless pale fatal pain. Domestic thermal variations below 70 degrees push it into sudden digestive arrest and feces stagnate killing it slowly from the inside. Regulate artificial lateral heating (Mat) always monitored.

Humidity and Hydration: ASIAN MONSOON TOLERANT TO CONDENSATION (75-85%) asphyxia weeping sadistic. CRITICAL: They do not die of rapid hygrometric asphyxia like the Silver Ghost, but soggy moss (Sphagnum) is a legal obligation. They love to scrape on the opaque windows of condensation, however if ventilation is missing on the sides, they become infected with destructive mycelium asphyxiating their gills in a spectral coma.

Feeding: Devoted Calcareous and Wood Asian Fungivores disgusting sadistic gloomy lethal. They demand pure expensive proteins but diets mainly based on the total destruction of live moss, lichens and soggy fermented oak wood. They put on mass by crunching fresh cuttlefish bones or agricultural organic plaster thrown at the edges of the box. They have a chemical craving for the minerals and hard mud ashes of limestone rocks.

Compatibility: Exclusive for Cryptic Elite Collection (Total Isolation) proud majestic sadistic amazing majestic fatal. Absolutely incompatible: never use bagged orchid soil or other crap. Exclusive animals that fear invasive asphyxiating aggressive springtails. Asphyctic and religious isolation: saurians would swallow them like 20 euro peanuts killing the paralyzed and slow species in a few bites.

Health: Asphyxiating Arrest of Lead Molt (Fetid Molt Failure useless). If the humidity stagnates and smooth rocks are missing to 'scratch' off the old skin... The massive lead-colored exoskeleton will dehydrate on the lower joints, preventing the separation in half. They will fall in a C paralyzed agonizing in an asphyxiating block from stress twisted blindly sweating and dying atrociously stuck in their fetid genetic luxury.

Terrestrial invertebrate profile

Diet
Detritivoro Specializzato / Fungivoro Calcareo
Humidity
75 % - 85 %
Temperature
25 °C
Sociality
Solitario / Timido
Venom level
Innocuo
Substrate depth
8 cm

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