If you're looking for the most beginner-friendly, bioactive-ready isopods in the hobby, you've found them. Porcellionides pruinosus — the Powder isopod — is the species that most keepers start with, and there's a good reason it stays popular long after you've moved on to fancier genera. It's fast, prolific, genuinely hardy, and comes in enough colour morphs to keep things interesting.

Everything in this collection is the same species: P. pruinosus, originally from the Mediterranean but now established worldwide. All morphs share identical care requirements and will happily interbreed if housed together — so if you want to keep colour lines pure, keep them in separate enclosures. If you just want a thriving, visually varied cleanup crew, the Rainbow Mix is the obvious choice.

What we currently stock: the classic Powder Blue — the original morph that gave the whole line its name — alongside Powder Orange, Powder White, Oreo Crumble, Orange Dalmatian, and the Wild Type Guadeloupe — a natural, unmodified Caribbean locality for keepers who prefer their cleanup crew to blend into the environment rather than stand out against it.

Porcellionides work well alongside springtails in bioactive setups, and pair nicely with Porcellio species if you want a larger, more visible isopod in the same enclosure. All orders are dispatched Monday to Thursday via Royal Mail's next day by 1pm service, with a live arrival guarantee and 20% overcount on every order.