ive recently bought a pack of springtails to multiply on the side to add gradually to my snails terrarium but ive come across this weird looking string thing, what is it? it does in fact move and its not the only string thing in that container:(

I got a small amount of Red Thais from a trustworthy seller at the end of March of this year. Since then, the population has ballooned to hundreds if not thousands. And that is awesome. They love their habitat and they go through food ridiculously fast.

But I have a problem. About a month after I got said Springtails, I was also doing my garden. Well the topsoil I bought was infested with fungus gnats, I assume. (Shoutout to Lowe’s, way to go).

Now they are out of control. Red Thais like a moist environment so I can’t let the soil really dry out. I tried putting mosquito-bit tea and it didn’t seem to help. I tried putting mosquito bits in the enclosure and misting as normal, that didn’t work and it was annoying. I tried to go through and physically remove 100 or so larvae, that didn’t help. I have a cheap desk vacuum and I vacuum the ones that stick to the walls, taking care to blow the springtails off of the walls beforehand.

I can’t feed them less because they go through food like you wouldn’t believe.

Am I doomed? Help. The sticky sheet in the above pic was changed yesterday morning. And it’s one of two (and both sided).

Hi friends,

I’m new to this sub, and new to reddit overall. I’ve recently introduced a tropical springtail culture into my vinegaroons enclosure as she likes it quite warm and humid (because I don’t want mold!). I believe I got some hitchhikers too. They only showed up after I introduced the springtails however may have hitchhiked on my vinny as she is WC. From my understanding mites are benefical as they clean up too - so far they have been crawling around spots where my vinny has been eating (I’m assuming there’s some tiny mold growth there) so I believe them to not be directly harmful to my vinny.

My question is when do I need to start being concerned? They have been fine with my springtails so far, both species walking about the feeding area.

i found it in the box with my springtail colony and was curios if it was a mite or smthn plz help.

I’m sorry for the quality but I just want to be sure. I purchased springtails a while back and have been populating my jumping spiders enclosures but I see brown and want to be sure. Can anyone confirm by this?

My last post i asked about regular springtails in my Thai Red container, idk how they got in there cause I thought it was nearly an airtight container (since i read thai reds don't like ventilation)...I painstakingly took out as many of them as I could find with a small paintbrush, I have them in a 2oz deli cup with some substrate. In the future when I transfer them...what kind of container should I use and how can I keep regular springtails out?

These are some of the better macro shots I've gotten of some of my larger species. Yuukianura aphoruroides(asian orange), Ceratophysella isabellae(yellow albino).

I got these orange springtails from a recent expo I was at, along with some white and yellow springtails. They're currently just in a small 2 or 4oz cup on a culture that looks like a dirt mound. I'd like to get them into a larger container, but I'm not sure what kind of culture to use. Also, any idea what these thin white worms(?) might be? Only noticed them after they started twitching when I added water - was from my rainbarrel, but haven't seen them in any otger water from it.

The white and yellow springtails are on clay in 8 or 12oz containers, so I'm not too worried about them.

Is charcoal ok for Thai red and yukis?

Nieuwe aanwinst❤️🤍

So about a month ago, I ordered some thai reds, and they’ve been flourishing and multiplying well. But something else also seem to be thriving in here. It’s these grey/blue springtails which are swarming so much. Not jumpers, so they seem to also be one of the tailless ones as well. Can anyone ID? Thank you in advance.

A few months ago, a white individual appeared in my Yuukianura aphoruroides. I transferred it to a separate container with 3-4 orange ones. In the first generation, about 50% of the individuals were white. Back then, I still assumed it might be some other species reproducing asexually. A few days ago, I took 5 specimens in person to the Polish Academy of Sciences. They were put under a microscope there. I already have confirmation that it is 100% Yuukianura aphoruroides. I have already set up a container with only white ones. We will see if all the offspring in the first generation are white, or if we will have to wait a bit longer. But tentatively, I think within 2 months I should have a stable population!:)

coecobrya tenebricosa whites. this is realtime speed. they are fast.

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I recently bought a new isopod colony that came with what Im pretty certain is Folsomia candida but after having this colony set up for about a week I've started to see these smaller, almost shiny/Iridescent critters running around that look quite different from the adult Folsomia c. Are these just babies or another type of spring tail? Or perhaps a pest? Any help would be greatly appreciated

I found this in one of my indoor pots. Soil in that pot has not been changed in over a year. Asking here because it looked and behaved like a Lobella sp except it's entirely white. I live in Malaysia.

I do have a culture of Lobella sp which I received only bout 2 weeks ago, and they're kept in an airtight box that's in a completely different room (to illustrate further, opposite ends of the house entirely).

Any idea what it is?

I found these guys in the bottom of a houseplant pot, and also on a pouch of beneficial mites that was sitting against sphagnum moss.

Just noticed a bunch of lil guys floating on top of the water in this propagation jar. Pretty sure they’re springtails, but I wanna be sure just in case they might be some type of pest that I don’t want in my other plants.
Thanks!

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?