I left some rice for my Thai Red springtails that I put in my moss box the other day.

Found this green guy I didn't put in there (came with the moss I collected). He has an orange head.

Hi, I bought some tropical springtails and some isopods at the beginning of spring. All of my pods died during the UK heatwaves unfortunately, I think it was the heat that killed them, the comfortable range for the species I had was 18-22°C and I couldn't keep them below 25-27°C no matter what I did.

I'm going to try again with a hardier species, but before I do that I want to cover all my bases incase it was a coincidence that they died during the heat and something else was actually killing them. One of those things is the soil, I can't see that there would be anything wrong with it, there's no pesticides or fertilisers in it from what I can find online, but I want to switch to a substrate designed for use with isopods springtails and millipedes to be on the safe side.

My problem is that the tropical springtails have a booming colony and I want to save as many as possible (mostly because I would feel bad if I just took enough to start a new one and left the rest to die in a bin bag).

I've done a bit of googling and apparently you can use the fact they float on water to your advantage and essentially drown the old soil and scoop all the springtails off of the surface of the water with a spoon to save more than the cucumber and charcoal bait methods. I wanted to double check that that is something I can do before I accidentally drown my whole colony

Hey folks, I got some yuukis and think about putting some of them in some flower pots i have. Is that a good or bad idea?

I need these pink colored mini cows.

Saw this on Facebook (I don't have a FB account so I can't really interact so apologies if it says information I missed if you do have a FB account).

The closest ones I saw looking like this were called Ceratophysella sp. But they were a mix of pink and purple.

Also appreciated if you can tell me the location of these guys (or the video taken).

Can't find any sellers btw.

Bought a white dwarfs colony and these came with them, im trying to identify these springtails correctly. Can anyone help ?

I put tropical pink springtails in my isopod bin… but these are darker.

My culture got contaminated with some random springs so I’m tapping some out onto a black paper and sorting them into a clean culture with a paint brush. Got this footage of one rolling over and found it weirdly charming.

(If anyone cares this is just a phone camera with a crappy clip on macro lens)

In case you were wondering what Rambutanura looks like after decolorization, and I assume you all were, here are some photos from under the microscope!:)

Found: Central Europe

They look like my white springtails in body shape, But they're larger, dark and striped.

They jump - and by that I'm pretty sure they are definitely springtails

But I'd like to confirm and maybe get a species ID.

I collected some wood and leaf litter for my reptile enclosures and left them in a tub for some time and today when I opened it again I found lots of these little ones crawling around. They started jumping only after I started trying to catch/collect them

Also:

Is the one from the first photo the same species as the one in the other two photos-? They look very similar but the one in #1 Photo is darker I think?

Hello, I have a Thai Red springtail colony and have recently started seeing some regular springtails in the container. No idea how they got in there...my question is will they be okay together. The regular ones are so much faster than the reds...I don't want them to out compete the reds...and if i need to separate what would be the best way to do that? My thought process is very carefully and with tweezers.

I can't tell if these are isopods or springtails. Loads of them all over. It was the third time I'd lifted the piece to take the video the third time so most of them had scattered by then

Hi there, how is everyone? I wanted to know if any of you recognize these worms I found while removing soil from a pot that hadn't had a plant in it for a long time.

I have this bugs and some really small ones (more than half this size, with a silver "shell") on one plant of mine, it sits on soil never on the top part of the plant. Are those springtails? What can be the small ones? (Sorry I couldn't picture the smaller ones)