Bark, Hides, Seeds, Lichen and Moss

February 13, 2025

Bark, Hides, Seeds, Lichen and Moss

All the extras for your enclosures to give your pets secure hiding places and make everything nicer.

Lotus pods -

These have been a favorite of isopod keepers for a while, since they give lots of spaces for both adults and mancae to hide.

So I finally tracked down a good source at a great price. Like my other dry botanicals, these are freezer sterilized to prevent hitchhikers.

6ct bag - $12

Sweet Gum Pods - Limited quantities, restock expected to be intermittent

Used as hides for isopods and springtails. Isopod mancae in particular seem to like the little holes on these. Freezer sterilized to make sure these are safe and not full of hitchhikers.

$6 per 2 dozen

Acorn Caps -

Now these are a fun option for isopod hides!

Just as edible as Lotus or Sweet Gum Pods, but smaller and easy to scatter around for mancae and adults to hide in.

1 cup - $8

Moss & Lichen:

Fresh harvested moss, mixed species -

Quart bags - $10

Half quarts, to do one isopod bin - $5

Can freezer sterilize on request in my regular freezer, which probably won't kill the moss. This item is not default sterilized. Tell me if you're looking for something specific like moss to mount on wood or plant on dirt.

Lichen covered oak sticks -

Gallon bag - $10

Sterilized at regular freezer temperatures on request.

Reindeer lichen -

Hand harvested on my land. No dyes or additives.

Quart bag - $15

Sterilized at regular freezer temperatures on request.

High quality dried sphagnum moss -

Quart bags - $2
Great for isopod moisture gradient, and for shipping isopods and millipedes.

Bark & Hides:

Oak bark -

This is oak bark from rotting logs, perfect for hides and nibbling by detritivores like isopods.

Quart bag - $10

Oversized - $15 - currently out of stock

(oversized pieces are packaged in gallon bags, and can have as many as six big chunks. It varies by what will fit. Sometimes they're wide, sometimes they're long.)

Deep freezer sterilized.

Fresh Red Oak Bark -

Unlike my usual bark, this was pried off of freshly fallen logs by a field collector up in the hurricane affected area of the NC mountains. The storm got this tree, but we can at least make use of the bark.

It's very dense and heavy, and thicker than my other stock. Great for situations where you don't want your bark hides eaten quickly, and don't want something that is completely inedible like cork bark.

Due to source, when this is gone, it's gone.

Quart bag - $10

Deep freezer sterilized.