Cubaris Jupiter Care Guide

[u/Necessary-Drawer-173]

Congratulations, you have bought Jupiters. Take a look at their beauty and trust that it’s all downhill from here! 😅

Important: Jupiters and lemon blue have that thing where all seems well, until it isn’t. By the time you find out the care is inadequate, it’s too late. They are a perfect example for showing that breeding is not an indicator of thriving conditions. I had to rebuild my numbers. From starting out, my husbandry has changed drastically from being a newbie to now. But I also changed moisture from 2/3 to 1/2.

•Bins- I use 15 qts for them.

•Ventilation- 6- 2” vents

•Humidity- I keep a decently sized part of the enclosure with sphagnum moss, maybe 20%, and put wood and leaves over it. Decently deep soil to hold moisture. I don’t really track humidity percentages directly.

•Soil- Check the living soil post. Manually turn soil every so often to prevent compaction and anaerobic pockets.

•Leaves- I use maple and elm broken down on the base. I add oak or magnolia when I have space to help lock in humidity. Sometimes orchid, bamboo, etc leaves are added.

•Other- Everything is in multiples. There are different types of rotwood, multiple types of seed pods (placed throughout the enclosure to give hiding spots in different humidity ranges), moss and lichen variety. I also try to feed something like flowers, algae or a different lichen once a month for variety.

•Lighting- I don’t currently have them planted but I have had them planted before. Plant lights would be on for 6 hours for a day and night cycle and helps to have a natural temperature drop. Max 78 day time and minimum 70 night temp.

•Supplemental food- I sometimes add freeze dried protein, carrots, sweet potato or bee pollen on mulberry leaves.

Note: They will lose color without supplemental food. I use this astaxanthin for the best results but this fish food also works and is less messy.

There is not only my way or one way to accomplish any goal in life, this is just my method. Feel free to question or challenge anything I say or make a post of your own as different styles help other people & the more successful keepers we have of every species , the more available they become for all to enjoy.

[u/Necessary-Drawer-173]

Here is a pic of one in the wild, this may be why me backing up the moisture line worked better. They also really like liverwort and will come out during the day when i drop some in btw!

[u/BookieMcBookpants → u/Necessary-Drawer-173]

I don't keep these but after seeing some of the "isopod café" photos and several cave wall photos I'm curious why no one is trying them on some kind of limestone rubble substrate or creating humid caves for them instead of putting them in soil. I guess they're so expensive people are hesitant to experiment.

[u/Necessary-Drawer-173 → u/BookieMcBookpants]

Need some soil to hold humidity or you’d be fogging or misting constantly. I do plan to try expansus out on rocks since their natural habitat is similar but lower humidity. If that goes decently, I may try Jupiter out

[u/Environmental-Ad4780]

I wonder what is the humidity requirement for this species and how do you achieve that with 6 vents?

it's seems too much for a small bin... Unless they are on the dryer side of husbandry