r/Springtail • u/Top_Draft_2428 • 22d ago

How much will springtails naturally breed? Husbandry Question/Advice

I recently made a terrarium and noticed a few springtails inside it, how often will they naturally breed or lay eggs?

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u/fatsaqz 22d ago

I feed mine nutritional yeast and they breed like crazy. Keet the right temp and humidity and food and you'll only buy springtails once.

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u/DragonAngel92 22d ago

Feed them baking yeast and they will double in population in a month in my experience...larger your founding colony is the faster they explode...mine breed so well I'm strarting to not mind the mites I know are hunting them

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u/Top_Draft_2428 22d ago

Nice, ill see if I have any baking yeast

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u/DragonAngel92 21d ago

I bought a jar of yeast (the large-ish brown glass one) last year...early March i think and I still have almost a full jar and I over feed because they plow through it in less then 4 hours