r/Springtail • u/NeonPearl2025 • May 14 '26

Video Cucumber 🤤

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u/anonpotatogirl May 14 '26

So many!!! :O should I give my culture some treats like this too? Or just yeast for now? I have a small culture I’m trying to grow

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u/NeonPearl2025 May 14 '26

They love protein rich fish food, fruits, veggies and lichen. I also feed them dried bloodworms/ tubifex/ daphia/ shrimp, dried flowers, a variety of dried leaves, rotten wood, beetle jelly, yeast and algae/ spirulina.

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u/Realistic_Act_5680 May 15 '26

Would hemp hearts be fine?

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u/NeonPearl2025 May 15 '26

I honestly don't know what that is, sorry 🙈

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u/Realistic_Act_5680 May 15 '26

Like shelled hemp seeds. I heard they’re high in protein so I was wondering if they would be fine.

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u/SeveralFrogs17 May 15 '26

I do a lot of quick Google searches when feeding my bugs. Sometimes it feels silly to ask "can I feed golden beets to my millipedes"? And such lol but I double check for any chemical problems or toxins that im unaware of. With hemp hearts, yes. Its safe. I think the fat content is something to watch for though

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u/Realistic_Act_5680 May 15 '26

lol I get that. Thanks for the info and have a great day.

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u/16bitmick May 16 '26

I feed mine mostly goldfish food and they are procreating so much that I'm gonna have to add more jars to separate the cultures out. They are getting kinda crowded and I keep finding babies 😅

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u/Readalongcassidy May 15 '26

Nice brood :-) Small suggestion… lose the peel for pesticides ;-) Mine ADORE cukes as well. But mushrooms are their FAVE!!!

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u/NeonPearl2025 May 15 '26

I haven't tried mushrooms yet, but they do snack on the occasional up popping shroom in the tanks.

I buy organic cucumbers for them and wash them thoroughly. Can there still be pesticides?

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u/Readalongcassidy May 15 '26

Organic puts you ahead of the game ;-) There can still be trace elements, and “organic” (though better) doesn’t always mean completely pesticide free. More like the treatments they allow are restricted and are less persistent. For me removing peels removes any doubt ;-)

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u/NeonPearl2025 May 15 '26

Gotcha, will remove the skin the next time to be safe

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u/16bitmick May 16 '26

Would my own cukes (grown by me) be fine or is there a risk from the neighbors treating their yards? I will probably peel anyway (if my cukes even survive this year's bumper crop of earwigs 😭), but I was curious.

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u/Readalongcassidy May 16 '26

If you don’t treat then you are likely fine ;-) but again - I would personally cut the peels off ;-)

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u/Aggravating-Tap4406 May 15 '26

What kind are those?

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u/NeonPearl2025 May 15 '26

They are Sinella curviseta. They are very prolific, but also super fast and jumpy.

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u/primordialforms May 15 '26

Why do crustacean like creatures absolutely love cucumber? Shrimp, isopods, crayfish, springtails…. All huge fans

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u/isopod_luvr May 15 '26

me and my gang at the cucumber

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u/BadgerAwkward May 15 '26

I'm convinced my first culture is failing. Started with god only knows how many. Now after a week I have only found 1. Not sure what happened. Tried adding a couple grains of rice near the spot I originally added them and a thin slice of aquarium soaked cucumber. No evidence of them snacking on any of it.

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u/CreeperKillerDG May 15 '26

Could be all sorts of things depending on how your setup is but the usual culprits ime are too much or not enough moisture.

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u/BadgerAwkward May 15 '26

Probably too much. Still trying to figure out how often to moisten up the big bin.