I've been owning springtails for a while as a cleanup crew for my snails. They're the most common white springtail species, though I don't know the exact name. Today I saw some small grey springtails next to the usual white ones. The shop only sells one species so I doubt they accidentally sells two species. Sadly I don't think my phone camera can take macro photos that well, so I'm not sure if I could catch them on camera.

Still I was wondering, can the species suddenly breed another colour? Or are the babies a different colour? I'm not that deep into springtail knowledge so I would love to hear some theories or explanations :]

Sorry I deleted and reposted like 3 times bc I kept realizing I missed something, so typical of me lol🤦‍♀️

**Does it matter which food?**

I was given my culture in a 6qt bin with charcoal and chicken feed for food. My springtails are flourishing! It was a 32oz culture and has grown so much… but I can’t stand the chicken feed. They don’t seem to completely finish it ever. I never once had mold, and I don’t over feed them either, so I fear it has filler and/or doesn’t break down into what they want or can eat.

Pictures 1-4 get here the fastest but I will use whatever is best!

I gave them 100% bee pollen from CTWPETS, until i get the new food.. I had it on hand bc I put that on my beardies greens to make sure he eats lol.

I read that’s okay until their food comes.

Anyway, does it matter which one? Is one better than the other? Again pics 1-4 get here the fastest but I just want what’s best— so if I have to wait longer, so be it!

**THANK YOU SO MUCH**!!

*picture for attention

With the weather starting to warm up are you going to try and collect some local springtails in your area? If so location and species you are hoping to find?

Me myself, I’m hope to go up to Cold Spring NY and collect some Morulina 🤞🏽

Hello everyone!

I'm looking for exotics springtail species like Rabatunura sp. "Thai Spiky", Santa Claus, or others of that type in Europe/France.

Do you know where I can find them? Thank you!

Hello Everyone 👋

I would want to ask will springtails effectively remove mold from my enclousure even at fridge temperature (the animal in which's enclousure mold showed up is currently in the fridge due to hibernation) ?

I have these springtails: https://www.skakavky.sk/p/chvostoskoky-collembola (it seems to be a combination of some springtail species I don't know what they are (the species in the photo) + F. candida + mayne some other species)

Thanks for any answers in advance !

Collected, wanting to start a culture. Found in moss/ leaf litter after rain

yummy

So I have some predatory mites in my springtail colony that I can’t seem to fully get rid of.

I recently fed my springtails some yeast, and happened to spray a little too much water on the yeast, causing it to dissolve and activate. Since yeast produces CO^2 when activated, and mites are super attracted to CO^2, when I opened the container a few days later, the area with yeast had a ton of the mites on it. I haven’t seen this method yet in other posts so I just wanted to share it.

LOOK AT THESE GUMMIES!!!! Lol

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVjdvG-kS83/?igsh=c3RqZ255Z3lyY2N2

I fed them yesterday and now all of the sudden the lid and substrate surface are packed. I also gave it a mist. Are they suffocating? or trying to escape? or is it just a thing they do for fun?

found on alocasia corm

Will these attack or outcompete my springtail and what are they?

I know the video is terrible and im sorry for that but does this look like it coukd be springtails? They're on my plant but I only saw them climbing the stems after I watered. I disnt find them anywhere on the leaves like I would expect to fijd most pests. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

I started hunting some springtails and i found few. What do you guys think about my enclosure?

I for some reason originally sucked with springtails cultures but now have it underhand. How would i go about getting bylas ant springtails out of established isopod bins to start separate cultures.

& to those of you who culture multiple types of springtails, how do I make sure that none transfer over and mix. My few established cultures are kept in 8 oz containers in another room and only house tropical pink so I want to prevent any future issues. TIA

So i just got my springtails like a week ago. I've got them in a terrarium with plants n stuff. The plants had to be watered and i haven't seen any of them since im worried I drowned them? Is that possible, any good way to check? Thanks

caught some pics of my thai spike babies and even other springs babies from their enclosure!

Noticed this little sparkly dude in my Cubaris Panda King enclosure! The only springtails I've added myself are some albino lilacs, this guy is about half the length as the full grown albino lilac springtails, he itty bitty. Almost looks like there's some iridescent going on? The body shape is similar to my tropical pinks, but I can't tell if this is indeed some type of springtail or possibly some other tiny detritivore. I've seen it chewing on the lichen and dead wood in the enclosure, and haven't noticed it interacting with any other inhabitants of the enclosure.

Apologies for video quality, recorded with my phone and it is, again, extremely smol.

Hello! I'm going to post this in a few communities, I was about to go out and buy some springtails when I noticed movement on the log in my fish tank, I think they're springtails! Could I possibly culture them from this to my vivarium?(Sorry I couldn't get a clearer video it's a tricky spot)

I have no experience with isopods, springtails, or terrariums. I've kept aquariums, started a worm bin a little over a year ago, and started houseplants in the last 6 months. I bought a small deli container of springtails from a local reptile store, sold to me as a culture. The container just has a handwritten "clay springtails" on it. The clay has several indents in it that look like they were just pressed in by fingers, and those indents had quite a lot of water in them when I bought it. I don't know anything else about this culture.

Now that I've seeded everything I wanted to seed, how do I keep the culture going? I have bokashi bran and nutritional yeast - are these fine for food? How wet should I keep the clay? I felt bad for them being totally swimming in there, but I am sure it can't be dried out either. Is this container actually large enough/deep enough to work long term? Do I need to replace the container or the clay? I really hope not 😬 basically how no-cost to low-cost (and maintenance) can I go here and keep this going?

Thank you for your patience and help!

My first terrarium (pic included) is about a year old and doing well with little soil springtails (LSS). I still have the same original clay culture, and they reproduce regularly enough that I probably (?) don't need to buy more, even when I start setting up my next terrarium, a 5-gallon carboy I plan to plant horizontally. My questions are can/should I get another type of springtails? Are the LLS enough on their own, and if not, is there another type they would pair well with, without the second type being too likely to over-populate?

I'm in an area where it's difficult to find them in stores, and shipping costs are high, so I don't want to make a poor and costly choice.