Know what you are keeping
Species records with names checked against the scientific catalog, photographs credited to the people who took them, care notes written by keepers, and the legal status you need before you buy.
A reference you can check
Most care information for invertebrates lives in scattered forum threads and dealer pages, and a lot of it contradicts itself. Invertia collects it in one place, keyed to scientific names, so you can compare species instead of guessing.
Every record shows where its facts come from. Taxonomy is resolved against the GBIF Backbone, so the names and families here match the scientific catalog rather than whatever a shop called the animal. Photographs are credited to the people who took them. Legal status is summarised from CITES and national sources, with the reasoning written out.
Browse by group
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Tarantulas
The spearhead. New World urticating species to fast Old World arboreals.
10 species
Scorpions
From docile emperors to desert species with a real sting.
4 species
Mantises
Short-lived, charismatic, great for first-time invert keepers.
4 species
Isopods
Clean-up crews and collector morphs that trade like rare plants.
4 species
Centipedes & millipedes
Detritivore millipedes and fast, venomous centipedes.
4 species
Beetles
Rhino and stag beetles with long, rewarding larval stages.
4 speciesSpecies people actually start with
Slow, forgiving, and hard to kill through ordinary mistakes. None of them need handling to be worth keeping.
Guides
All guides →Setting up an enclosure that actually works
Fall height kills terrestrials, stagnant air kills arboreals, and a hygrometer will lie to you. The rules that matter, by lifestyle, plus the gap test for escapes.
beginnerChoosing a beginner scorpion
Not every scorpion belongs in a first enclosure. The forgiving species, the ones to avoid for years, and a quick sting-risk rule of thumb.
speciesIsopods: clean-up crew and collector market
What isopods actually do in a bioactive setup, the workhorse species versus the collector morphs, and the honest story of what happened to Rubber Ducky prices once breeding caught up.
Being straight about what is here
This is an early site and it covers 30 species, not the whole hobby. Care values are curated from keeper practice and are marked as such, not dressed up as veterinary fact. A price index and a dealer directory are planned, and they are switched off until there is real data behind them rather than numbers we made up.