Pls rate 1-10 pls for isopods

So A few months ago me and some of mine family friends not really my nephew and his sister went out and found some isopods a.k.a. roly-poly‘s so I put them in their own terrarium beautiful and after a few weeks I’m like OK they’re not gonna breed I woke up babs everywhere I don’t know what to do there in one of those small little beta tanks that four dollars at Walmart and my mom hates bugs she sees anything as a bug so I try to come to her calm and collected and she says don’t tell me because I will throw all of them away I’m scared that she look up the number I did not know they can have 200 babs I should’ve done research I might move them to a bigger tank while I might have to so what should I do my mom has never been a fan of lizards bugs or anything other than maybe a dog and that’s a maybe one time she told me she’ll spray my lizard with raid so I don’t know what to do and yes she approved them I got them she said she used to have some as a kid.
And I’m scared she thinks they’re in a fish tank the reason why because she said you’ll come home and your fish will be in the trash
and to me my animals even smaller isopods are not hobbies they’re my pets I take care of them I sit there and watch them so it’s not a hobby to me it’s a pet. especially my fish a lot of my fish trust me very much and that would honestly kill me

 

First of all, it seems you're talking about terrestrial isopods, so this thread is misplaced, and should be in "Our Other Pets".

If you aren't comfortable with selling their babies as lizard food or something like that - and it sounds like you aren't - you should give them all away or sell to someone who can provide better conditions and aren't dependable on a parent that finds them creepy. And instead get a pet that either doesn't breed or is considered cute by your mom. You can try keeping all kinds of weird critters once you move out, so just hold on until then

 

If you caught them from outside, take them back outside and let them go again and be done with it.

 

As someone whos parents also use the "I'll throw all your animals in the trash and let them die" saying, take it with a grain of salt. Most parents will just say this as a means to get their point across or to scare you. IMO it would take a really messed up person to throw a living creature out to die. Bugs I can understand her tossing them out, because most people don't really view them the way their owners do. Here are some of the things I would do if I were in your shoes.

Either put them back outside like Sparky said, or give them away like V1K said. I think just putting them outside is the simplest solution.

If you're really determined to keep them, toss the babies back outside and keep a small group of them and keep their terrarium somewhere out of sight. I have a leopard gecko and an ant colony that my parents have yet to find out about because they are out of the way in spots my parents don't go looking, ( the gecko is in a custom built terrarium my parents where aware of but didn't know had an inhabitant, the ants are by my closet in the corner nobody goes near.)

Depending on the substrate you have for your lizard, why not just move them into the lizard tank? I have a crested gecko vivarium with soil and peat moss and a while ago I had isopods and springtails living in there.

Edit: Talking to your mom about how you feel about them is always a decent option.

 

As someone whos parents also use the "I'll throw all your animals in the trash and let them die" saying, take it with a grain of salt. Most parents will just say this as a means to get their point across or to scare you. IMO it would take a really messed up person to throw a living creature out to die. Bugs I can understand her tossing them out, because most people don't really view them the way their owners do. Here are some of the things I would do if I were in your shoes.

Either put them back outside like Sparky said, or give them away like V1K said. I think just putting them outside is the simplest solution.

If you're really determined to keep them, toss the babies back outside and keep a small group of them and keep their terrarium somewhere out of sight. I have a leopard gecko and an ant colony that my parents have yet to find out about because they are out of the way in spots my parents don't go looking, ( the gecko is in a custom built terrarium my parents where aware of but didn't know had an inhabitant, the ants are by my closet in the corner nobody goes near.)

Depending on the substrate you have for your lizard, why not just move them into the lizard tank? I have a crested gecko vivarium with soil and peat moss and a while ago I had isopods and springtails living in there.

Edit: Talking to your mom about how you feel about them is always a decent option.

My bad I didn’t mean not to mention that the lizard I gave away my parents wouldn’t take me to go get food for it and I can’t live off of lettuce it was a bearded dragon
But there’s a good chance I will just let the babies outside or upgrade them because I do have a spare 5 gallon but the problem with that they make more babies on babies so there’s a good chance I’ll just get rid of the babies and let them outside when they get a little older because they’re still in the white stage
But the thing is I don’t think my mom is playing once i tried to scare someone with it she almost got rid of my lizard because I scared someone with it so and I would honestly believe if my lizard got out she would spray it will with raid to death

 

My bad I didn’t mean not to mention that the lizard I gave away my parents wouldn’t take me to go get food for it and I can’t live off of lettuce it was a bearded dragon
But there’s a good chance I will just let the babies outside or upgrade them because I do have a spare 5 gallon but the problem with that they make more babies on babies so there’s a good chance I’ll just get rid of the babies and let them outside when they get a little older because they’re still in the white stage
But the thing is I don’t think my mom is playing once i tried to scare someone with it she almost got rid of my lizard because I scared someone with it so and I would honestly believe if my lizard got out she would spray it will with raid to death

now you know how they reproduce, release anything that's going to be too much to handle, and grow out just a couple. so you don't get hit with hundreds at a time. Keep it within reason for yourself.

 

now you know how they reproduce, release anything that's going to be too much to handle, and grow out just a couple. so you don't get hit with hundreds at a time. Keep it within reason for yourself.

I will what do you time would be the right age

 

So my pill bugs had babs so i have to move some to outside but some but i want to keep some i made the a other tank

 

Looks pretty good to me. I would just add another inch of substrate and some dead leaves because they eat things that are decomposing