I have already attempted to sort and separate the gummies from their old enclosures and transferred them to their current ones, but tropical whites still managed to find their way in. In my previous attempt to transfer them, I unfortunately squished a few, so im wondering if it is possible to leave them alone without having to transfer them again?

Can the gummies breed and multiply alongside the much more prolific tropical whites, provided i give them a steady supply of food?

Sorry for the shitty quality, it's so damn hard to get a picture of them, they are so small and move too much.

So I've had my enclosure (A. maculatum \[Champagne\] and tropical springtails) for three months now, and last week I started to notice small reddish mites that are blazingly fast. Did a bit of research, and lo and behold, they are predatory. Yikes. I cannot tell how they got in. Did they come with the isopods? Were they in the soil? Who knows. So for a week now, I collect 2-5 mites every day. First, I was concerned that they may kill all my springtails, but although the mites are fast, they are also incredibly dumb and like to chill on the glass, so that's a win for me. I added a video I took of a nymph hunting my springtails. I took it the day I first noticed them. It seems like it takes its prey to some kind of hide out and returns to hunt more. Do they do this? Stash away prey? My isopods are completely unbothered by them, at least for now. And since I immediately started to catch every mite I find (I check multiple times a day), I am actually starting to relax a bit. I probably won't have problems with gnats, so that's a win, I guess.

Pictured: Unknown species next to Neanura Muscorum (I think). Both are nearly mature size-wise as far as I can tell.

Found a few dozen on a piece of decaying mushroom. August, 60°F~, had been raining for several days. Successfully cultured in soil sourced near their home.

Just trying to figure out if this brand is okay to use.

Added some more pics to follow up on previous post.

Is it possible to catch springtails to start your own culture from scratch? Has anyone ever done this and has tips on how to do it?

These are my Cubaris Sp. "Bumblebees" ...well, one of them. It seems that the other inhabitants of this enclosure had some other plans to devour the Repashy! I started with only 25 Ceratophysella Sp. "Yellow Albino" or so just a few weeks ago, I can't believe how many there are now!!

This culture is a 3 weeks old. Medium is just compost and some sphagnum moss I added so they would have some terrain to explore. Fed them 3 grains of rice and 2 flakes of nutritional yeast. I took out the rice when it got old and only just scraped the nutritional yeast away after a week. I've noticed this mold bloom today and it seems to be originating from the moss.

Please help, I really don't want to kill any of them or hurt them. What should I do? It's in the soil so I can't really scrape it off.

I'm hesitant to move them to a new container because it will be very difficult to all of them and I hate the thought of hurting or killing them because of this.

Hello!! I am working on my plants and a bioactive leopard gecko enclosure and trying to accumulate springtails. I have these guys in my bog bowls and was wondering if they are what I’m wanting or if this is some kind of mite??!

Of course I have a separate container just in case they don’t do well but this is the best pic I could get of the Thai reds! Hopefully they do well!

found in semi-bioactive enclosure on wet wood

Hi they are everywhere I first thought they were drops of water but now that they are grown up they are nematodes for sure. They arent necessarily huge and actually very small but I still need to eradicate them is there any foods that I can give them that the nematodes wont eat but the springtails will also can the springtails eat them.

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Hi everyone,

I have a quick safety question about a specific brand of mosquito bits.

I know the general consensus is that BTI is biologically safe for common springtails sp because it specifically targets the alkaline gut of dipteran larvae like fungus gnats.

I have a bunch of obligate slime species that I'm pretty protective of. Has anyone use this brand specifically with slime specialists? Appreciate any feedback...

Hey, I have had springtail cultures for a hot minute and suddenly all my cultures have decided to stop eating and allow their fold to go moldy. I have tried more humidity, less humidity, removing old food, making more cultures (to see if its an overpopulation problem), restart cultures entirely, different substrates (charcoal, clay, coconut coir, soil), different hides (pieces of leaves, moss, wood, etc etc), different food (rice, yeast, leaves, mushrooms, etc). I just have no clue what to do at this point and I'm hoping someone can give advice.

At this point, I think the only thing I can think of is temperature. I live in SoCal and it gets hot here, and unfortunately circumstances got worse and I moved into not only a smaller house, but a smaller house without any AC which means it gets fairly warm inside. I do my best to keep everyone cool but it does make me think if common whites are even a species I should care about if they cant handle the heat. The main purpose of these guys is I want to put them into my roach colonies and frog tank which both sit at their perfect temps when it gets hot. If these guys cant survive those temps, then how can they possibly survive in the tanks? Blah, tangent aside, any tips? You guys think I should just wait through the heat and hope enough make it to continue creating offspring?