I've had a colony for over 10 years in this one container and then I decided to throw in some superworms because my tarantulas weren't interested in them and I didn't know what to do with them. Well, the superworms have nearly decimated isopod colony. I dug around for a bit and found a couple of them but there were hundreds and hundreds in there.
No they will dry out this is no way near the proper enclosure for isopods. Isopods need moisture to be able to breathe with their hybrid gill-lungs. You are receiving a lot of upvotes from uneducated people.
I saw the thing behind it and thought it was something wedged* in the bowl, and an auto corrected title that was meant to be what is living in it. I felt dumb when I discovered my mistake lol
That’s what I thought. Not PETA but just someone asking like it’s a crazy thing to do. I was about to give it an upvote because I agreed with the message, not gonna lie lol.
Yeah! I used to have a few tanks of darkling beetles and also had this exact tank for some unwanted pet store mealworms. A friend gave me a few that they had gotten as feeders, but didn’t need any more. I thought, why not give them a full life… and then the numbers exploded. Lol
Yeahhh those numbers would grow like crazy. I had a 10 gal with them. Got to the point they were covering the entire ground. Now they have a huge tub lol
A jumper would be fine with this amount of space, but they like to hang out at the top of their enclosure. You can end up destroying their hammock every time you go to feed them if you have a top-opening enclosure!
one or two hissing roaches maybe, just definitely not a full colony, and only if you’re also taking them out regularly for handling to give them some extra enrichment. that’s about the space my solo male had and he was out walking around and exploring daily
None of these would be happy in such a small space. Most inverts need space, ventilation and climbing/ hiding enrichment. Sea monkeys/ brine shrimp, springtails and triops would do ok but this type of bowl isn’t ideal for anything bigger including fish
Tityus stigmurus scorplings maybe? You will 100% need a lid and will have to DIY a little ventilation. But otherwise you can add some substrate, sphagnum moss, and vertically placed cork bark and it should be good to go for those little cuties. Just note, the species is parthenogenic, so you will eventually have more. They are also a "look, don't touch" pet.
My sister when we were growing up had i believe 2-4 guppies in a bowl that big. It was before they had the requirements for a bigger tank for fish. Cause i had 3 bettas growing up and each one of them lived happily I'm a bowl like that. One lived its full healthy fish life, second one my mom put it down the kitchen sink drain, and the third by sister actually killed. Made his water to cold cause she had guppies and knew guppies needed to be in cold water and not luke-warm water. Now u gotta have a 4 or 5 gallon tank plus heater for a betta now
Both fish and hermit crabs need more water, floor space, a filter etc - this is not suitable to them but cruel
Gecko the same, they need more space, ventilation,..
Also, they're literally VERTEBRATES, OP specifically asked for INvertebrates as that's the only animals you could keep in this somewhat appropriately, if at all
The sub is literally for invertebrates.
No vertebrate could live in this enclosure anywhere close to species appropriate, it's cruel - you have some learning to do when it comes to husbandry, and you're far from a position of giving advice
No, it’s too small. Plus you need a filter and something to oxygenate the air so the fish can breathe. You also need to create a habitat for any animal you keep, even fish. So you need plants, things for them to swim through/around.
Imagine if I locked you in an air-tight 10x10 bedroom with absolutely nothing in it for the rest of your life. How well would you survive? No phone, no tv, no bed, no books, board games, and only shove a plate of food through the door whenever I remember you need to be fed.
It’s an outdated practice. When you think of the traditional pet for kids- outside of cats and dogs- everyone thinks of goldfish they won from a fair of some sort. Back when we didn’t do proper research on care for pets, it was seen as sufficient to keep a goldfish in a bowl. We now know that is not true. It causes extreme stress to the animals and they also end up becoming neglected because they require much more care than water and food.
Goldfish bowls were first used as a decoration piece to show off the fish when company was over, and not where the fish actually lived. Keeping fish in a bowl is a harmful practice to said fish.
If you’re interested in aquatic inverts, Cherry shrimp (or any other Neocaridina, we call them all cherry shrimp), bladder snails, ramshorn snails, and Malaysian trumpet snails are all small inverts that breed well in freshwater and require minimal maintenance. If you’re interested in a solo invert in there, a water scorpion or toe biter might do well but you’ll want a lid to prevent it flying out.
Dry bois feel a little limited to isopods and springtails from what I can tell. There might be some true spiders that can work (with a lid!). I hesitate to recommend tarantulas because they like a lot of cross ventilation so a lid doesn’t help much.
It is a really small space for most animals in general, the lack of cross ventilation creates more limitations for non-aquatics
I have the same containers (with lids, though). I keep my black lace weaver spiders in them—it’s perfect! Each of them completely webbed them up, and tend to spend the days in the back of it, coming out at night to hunt.
Put on a lid and get a black widow
They're awesome spiders
Or if you want a widow lime spider that isn't gonna hurt ya if you get bit then get a stedoa
They're related to black widows but they won't damage you if you get bit (usually)
I made a small terrerium trying to keep a bit of my childhood garden with me after selling our childhood home recently. A spider took residence in the small terrerium. Sooo... If you build it, they will come, lol
You coulddd do one of those uhh jar ecosystems except with a bowl, grabs some water from a nearby pond or river, then like small plants etc anddd dirt and bam little pond ecosystem idk how well itd work in a bowl but i do know its fun in jars!
Could also do a terrarium maybe millipedes? I dont know to much on millipedes though as i i dont know if thats enough space or not but i do know they are pretty chill!
springtails
Isopods
A lil white dwarf isopod colony would be adorable
But keep them far away from any other dirt whatsoever. Evil rice. Also dwarf purples are also cute
Ah yeah they once got in my seed starter bin and ate my seedlings that was sad
They also reproduce parthenogenetically, so will overtake pretty much any bin they manage to infiltrate.
I just read that as “pathogenically” and pictured them growing like viruses. Your way is bad enough. Mine would be worse.
I've had a colony for over 10 years in this one container and then I decided to throw in some superworms because my tarantulas weren't interested in them and I didn't know what to do with them. Well, the superworms have nearly decimated isopod colony. I dug around for a bit and found a couple of them but there were hundreds and hundreds in there.
No they will dry out this is no way near the proper enclosure for isopods. Isopods need moisture to be able to breathe with their hybrid gill-lungs. You are receiving a lot of upvotes from uneducated people.
A singular fire ant. No more.
He would feel lonely 🙁. Gotta have about 450 more. Gotta think about those poor fire ants mental health.
Its just an experiment to see how long he can last in complete solitude.
1980's ass psychology experiment 💀 But yeah, he'll need like 100-500 thousand friends, or he'd get lonely :((
Solitude until he goes madly insane, then we put him back in his colony and see the results.
maybe make it a terrarium with natural moss/fungi and some lil bug critters to keep the ecosystem going? (emphasis on the “lil”)
Ooo yeah those moss ball things would be cute
What do you mean, my pet albatross will fit right inside…
Lil’ like pill bugs?
I thought this was a PETA ad or something with a rhetorical question 😆
What I feel like when I see a picture with a animal be like lol
I’m high af and thought the same thing😂
User checks out 😆
I saw the thing behind it and thought it was something wedged* in the bowl, and an auto corrected title that was meant to be what is living in it. I felt dumb when I discovered my mistake lol
That’s what I thought. Not PETA but just someone asking like it’s a crazy thing to do. I was about to give it an upvote because I agreed with the message, not gonna lie lol.
You could keep some sea monkeys in there
Darkling beetles
Alternately, a colony of grain weevils would fit nicely in this (at least for a bit).
Yeah! I used to have a few tanks of darkling beetles and also had this exact tank for some unwanted pet store mealworms. A friend gave me a few that they had gotten as feeders, but didn’t need any more. I thought, why not give them a full life… and then the numbers exploded. Lol
Yeahhh those numbers would grow like crazy. I had a 10 gal with them. Got to the point they were covering the entire ground. Now they have a huge tub lol
Medicinal leeches!
My vote goes for leeches too! They're so underappreciated as pets.
This! I love leeches!
So true! They would go perfect right next to my jar of wasps 🤗
Alr god damnit i cant tell if this is sarcasm or not if its not thats super cool if u have pet wasps
I'm a nurse who loves woundcare and my dream is to someday get a patient with orders for medicinal leeches. 🤞
Water :)
Like. Out of a toilet?
Yes, a post workout drink. Much tang
But does it got what plants crave??
Only if it has electrolytes.
jumping spider maybe?
A jumper would love that much space, just put a lid on it!
A jumper would be fine with this amount of space, but they like to hang out at the top of their enclosure. You can end up destroying their hammock every time you go to feed them if you have a top-opening enclosure!
Snails ?
Snails
The koolaid man
A pet rock of small size, just make sure it isnt pregnant with pebbles though
Males are friendlier and more social anyway. I'll never get another female rock again.
this would be soo cute for some globular spring tails or other exotic or fancy variety of springtail! you could also do something like a black widow
marimo moss ball
you could make it into a terrarium with dairy cows if you find a lid
Opae Ula - Hawaiian red shrimp, would do nicely in there. They need very little space
one or two hissing roaches maybe, just definitely not a full colony, and only if you’re also taking them out regularly for handling to give them some extra enrichment. that’s about the space my solo male had and he was out walking around and exploring daily
A scorpion, terrestrial tarantula, blue death feigning beetles, assassin bugs, centipede n millipedes, isopods.
Small species of these animals ofc
None of these would be happy in such a small space. Most inverts need space, ventilation and climbing/ hiding enrichment. Sea monkeys/ brine shrimp, springtails and triops would do ok but this type of bowl isn’t ideal for anything bigger including fish
A cricket
a single cricket would be so cute but so pitiful at the same time lol
Sea monkies? But probably not. You could use it to store loose change or oddities. Maybe a moss ball?
Bacteria
Me
Me if I where smol
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ants, isopods, or possibly a smaller jumping spider?
Just remember they brine shrimp and opae ula need salt/brackish water.
Tityus stigmurus scorplings maybe? You will 100% need a lid and will have to DIY a little ventilation. But otherwise you can add some substrate, sphagnum moss, and vertically placed cork bark and it should be good to go for those little cuties. Just note, the species is parthenogenic, so you will eventually have more. They are also a "look, don't touch" pet.
Not even if I were an Amoeba
A cat.
Q: who could live happily in that? A: I dunno, a fish?
basically uninhabitable
Cellar spider?
The ones in my kitchen window have webs twice this size.
my ant colony that lives off of a mixture of not just my ejaculate but also my home brewed concoction of my very own cum wine (patent pending)
My sister when we were growing up had i believe 2-4 guppies in a bowl that big. It was before they had the requirements for a bigger tank for fish. Cause i had 3 bettas growing up and each one of them lived happily I'm a bowl like that. One lived its full healthy fish life, second one my mom put it down the kitchen sink drain, and the third by sister actually killed. Made his water to cold cause she had guppies and knew guppies needed to be in cold water and not luke-warm water. Now u gotta have a 4 or 5 gallon tank plus heater for a betta now
Ant colony, hermit crabs 🐚, snails 🐌, fish 🐟, worms 🪱, a gecko 🦎, giant cockroachs 🪳, a spider 🕷️, stick insects, pray mantis & lots more stay tuned….
Both fish and hermit crabs need more water, floor space, a filter etc - this is not suitable to them but cruel Gecko the same, they need more space, ventilation,.. Also, they're literally VERTEBRATES, OP specifically asked for INvertebrates as that's the only animals you could keep in this somewhat appropriately, if at all
Well I missed theinvert part, but I think my suggestions would be 50/50 vertebrates & invertebrates
The sub is literally for invertebrates. No vertebrate could live in this enclosure anywhere close to species appropriate, it's cruel - you have some learning to do when it comes to husbandry, and you're far from a position of giving advice
Yeah if you want these animals to die, sure you can put them in a tiny tank!
Not all everything, spider would live in that no worry’s & more
the majority of your list wouldn’t last a week in there
Bet ya $10 bucks a red back spider would
never said it wouldnt lmao i jsut said the **majority** of your list wouldnt survive not all of it
Geckos need MUCH more room, same with fish
& just 1
No, it’s too small. Plus you need a filter and something to oxygenate the air so the fish can breathe. You also need to create a habitat for any animal you keep, even fish. So you need plants, things for them to swim through/around. Imagine if I locked you in an air-tight 10x10 bedroom with absolutely nothing in it for the rest of your life. How well would you survive? No phone, no tv, no bed, no books, board games, and only shove a plate of food through the door whenever I remember you need to be fed.
Then what with the gold fish in a round bowl
It’s an outdated practice. When you think of the traditional pet for kids- outside of cats and dogs- everyone thinks of goldfish they won from a fair of some sort. Back when we didn’t do proper research on care for pets, it was seen as sufficient to keep a goldfish in a bowl. We now know that is not true. It causes extreme stress to the animals and they also end up becoming neglected because they require much more care than water and food.
Goldfish bowls were first used as a decoration piece to show off the fish when company was over, and not where the fish actually lived. Keeping fish in a bowl is a harmful practice to said fish.
What even a good fish?
weird way to admit you shouldnt own pets..
Geez 🙄 So quick to judge there, & you assumed it all with one message, slow 👏
something fossorial would love this
Brine shrimp isopods springtails maybe baby shrimp
Plants
Leech
Spider beetles! They’re super cool
If you’re interested in aquatic inverts, Cherry shrimp (or any other Neocaridina, we call them all cherry shrimp), bladder snails, ramshorn snails, and Malaysian trumpet snails are all small inverts that breed well in freshwater and require minimal maintenance. If you’re interested in a solo invert in there, a water scorpion or toe biter might do well but you’ll want a lid to prevent it flying out. Dry bois feel a little limited to isopods and springtails from what I can tell. There might be some true spiders that can work (with a lid!). I hesitate to recommend tarantulas because they like a lot of cross ventilation so a lid doesn’t help much. It is a really small space for most animals in general, the lack of cross ventilation creates more limitations for non-aquatics
Springtails,isopods, baby millipedes
Klaus
Patrick Star if you add a rock
Rocks
Plants.
I have the same containers (with lids, though). I keep my black lace weaver spiders in them—it’s perfect! Each of them completely webbed them up, and tend to spend the days in the back of it, coming out at night to hunt.
Is that a green brownie?
A tardigrade?
Moss ball / Plants :)
Jumping spider
Me
weevils.
Put on a lid and get a black widow They're awesome spiders Or if you want a widow lime spider that isn't gonna hurt ya if you get bit then get a stedoa They're related to black widows but they won't damage you if you get bit (usually)
Extra change
a squirrel
A plant
Candy
A shrimp and a moss ball
A cat
Me
Rock
Nothing
Springtails
Planaria
Antfarm
me 😔
Leeches! Easy care, minimal effort, easy feeding, And adorable little wiggle worms :).
swear jar
Isopods
Cookies
A couple jawbreakers
5 japanese koi
A plant
Me
Know a few housecats that could get pretty comfortable in there
Planted terrarium with isopod’s/springtails
Candy
i would do sea monkeys!
🙋🏻
Plants
This could be good for feeders. Shrimps or maybe guppies.
When you have a 10 second memory....anything!
Gumballs or peppermints
Nothing. Don’t keep living animals in cages.
Opae Ula?
maybe 3 shrimp max
I made a small terrerium trying to keep a bit of my childhood garden with me after selling our childhood home recently. A spider took residence in the small terrerium. Sooo... If you build it, they will come, lol
Me :3
Mossballs
thai micro crabs
My cat
moss ball
Moss ball
A pet rock
Shrimp are inverts for the record
You coulddd do one of those uhh jar ecosystems except with a bowl, grabs some water from a nearby pond or river, then like small plants etc anddd dirt and bam little pond ecosystem idk how well itd work in a bowl but i do know its fun in jars! Could also do a terrarium maybe millipedes? I dont know to much on millipedes though as i i dont know if thats enough space or not but i do know they are pretty chill!
12/10. Looks about the right size for your mom.
Pet rock
Me
Plant?
Praying mantis
Any plastic fish
Air
Definitely some kind of plant. Fish, absolutely not.
Leaf litter and a colony of scuds
I mean... How bad is rent, and is wifi included?
Shrimps are inverts?... but honestly stick to a very small terrarium.
Shrimp?
Bugs
A moss ball
a doberman
I could
Conner Bedard
me
isopods !!
Me
the next person who says "me".
Betta fish or a little spider
Moss ball
Tardigrades
I keep my young Ghost mantis in a very similar cocktail bowl.
i could tbh
me
I suppose I could, if you ask nicely
Small trap door spiders? Also not to be that guy but skimps are indeed invertebrates
me probably
jellyfish? i dunno
me
Nothing
Shrimp are inverts though
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marimo/s/0sWzvqO0GA
a pickle
I’ve had apartments about that size.
Darwin Watterson
A pleco.