Oak & Algae Wafers

Large, thick wafers made with oak bark, spirulina, wheat germ, herring meal, and alfalfa, a superb food for isopods, millipedes, and cockroaches, and particularly well suited to wood-eating species.

What makes these wafers stand out is the inclusion of oak bark, which provides cellulose, an important dietary component for wood-eating invertebrates. Many isopod species naturally consume decaying wood as a key part of their diet, and these wafers deliver that in a convenient, nutrient-dense format. At 17mm x 3mm, they're chunky and dense, holding together well in the enclosure and giving your colony something substantial to graze on over time.

Why These Wafers?

• Oak bark: provides cellulose, essential for wood-eating inverts
• 38.3% crude protein, strong protein content for growth and breeding
• Spirulina: supports immune health and overall condition
• Wheat germ: an excellent source of fibre, fatty acids, and essential nutrients
• Alfalfa (lucerne): adds plant-based nutrition and additional fibre
• Rich in vitamins: A, D3, E, and C in generous amounts
• Large 17mm x 3mm wafer: dense and long-lasting, softens gradually when misted

How to Use

Place one or two wafers into your enclosure and give them a mist. They'll soften over time and your inverts will gather around and graze on them. Replace any uneaten wafers after a couple of days. A fantastic complement to leaf litter, flakes, pond sticks, vegetables, and other protein sources.

For how best to offer a dense food like this, our article on feeding isopods algae pellets covers portioning, feeding spots and removing anything uneaten. If you want the same slow-release format without the oak bark, the spirulina algae wafers are the plant-heavy version and the pleco wafers the high-protein one.

The oak bark content makes these particularly well suited to wood-eating isopods and millipedes, which naturally rely on decaying wood in their diet. Browse our full accessories collection for leaf litter, rotting wood, and the other components of a complete invert diet.

Nutritional Analysis

Crude protein 38.3% | Crude fat 3.7% | Crude fibre 3.2%

Ingredients

Herring meal, soya, wheat, mycoprotein, wheat germ, spirulina, alfalfa, oak bark, zeolite, minerals, rosemary extract, tocopherols, colourants.

Size

Available in 100g and 250g bags of 17mm x 3mm wafers. The smaller bag suits a handful of tubs and will still take months to work through, since a wafer or two at a time is all a colony needs. The 250g is for larger collections, or for anyone who has already decided these are a fixture and would sooner not reorder every few months. Sealed and kept somewhere dry and dark, the wafers hold condition for a long time, so the bigger bag is not a gamble on freshness.