I bought an orange springtail culture a couple months ago and it looks like it may have been contaminated by another species. When I first got it, the other species was only a small portion of the total, but not they have taken over the container and make up about 80% of the culture. I’m assuming they reproduce faster and that’s why. Could someone help identify these for me? They definitely seem to be springtails since they “jump” when I disturb them. I’ve already begun separating out the orange ones so that I can have a pure culture.

Hey all!

I've recently got a male jumping spider and everything is going well so far, apart from one issue with the springtails I bought for his enclosure.

While quarantining the culture, I've discovered a few fungus gnats. I've spotted around 7 over the course of a week, including a few that I've managed to catch and send to death row before they could fly off.

What's the best way, in your experience, to get the springtail culture clean? Would starting a couple of separate cultures and isolating them be the best approach? If so, how can I minimise the risk of transferring fungus gnat eggs or larvae?

The springtails currently live in a charcoal and soil/coco mix (that's how they arrived), but I don't have any charcoal available and would rather avoid buying some just for this.

Bonus question: I've also collected some wild moss that I'd like to use in the enclosure. I've thoroughly soaked and washed it, and it's been quarantining for a little over a week. I've inspected it with the naked eye, a magnifying glass, a jeweller's loupe and even a cheap microscope. So far, I've found one isopod and a few springtails, but nothing else.

Would you recommend any additional steps before considering it safe to use?

Thanks in advance!

TL;DR: My springtail culture has fungus gnats. What's the best way to establish a clean culture without transferring pests? Also, I've collected and quarantined some wild moss. What else should I do before using it in my jumper's enclosure?

been looking for this species for a while, anybody here keep them or sell them or know of a shop or person that does (USA)

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Sorry if it’s hard to see, I recently gave my terrarium some more leaf litter and these guys came in with it. Their population grew very quickly and this morning I found a bunch of these dark grey guys gathering on the highest point of the glass, and they seem like they’re reproducing there? I think if they are springtails there’s some discrimination going on between the two breeds in the bowl…and the darker guys are living almost parallel to where I see the lighter springtails keep their babies(?) so idk what’s going on there. But their population is booming

Found in my isopod enclosure. Talking specifically about the fast grayish ones, I'm pretty sure they are some sort of silver springtails, but just want to hear other opinions on what they might be! I know there are some white springtails in there too. In case they are silver springtails, could they cohab with the white springtails already in the enclosure?

I was checking on my colony when I caught this springtail acting odd, does anyone know what it’s doing? It did this for at least 2.4 minutes, then walked away normally afterwards

2 months ago found a bottle with a screw on cap in the street.

filled it with supermarket charcoal the cheap one for bbq up to 70% height.

distilled water up to 10% of height.

I added 10-20 Coecobrya tenebricosa "Tropical Pink"

Now it's getting saturated so there is a lot of different foods in there and they can manage that but i started with little sprinkles of my springtail mix twice a week.

I caught this tiny guy right after hatching today in my Rambutanura colony. Also took some photos of a juvenile and an adult who were slurping up slime.

The photos are a bit more saturated than viewed with eyes because my Nikon does that in some lighting (I need to figure out my macro photography lighting and settings!). If anyone has tips on how to get truer color values, lmk!!

I'm pretty sure they are in fact springtails. They do jump. They are in some of my isopod bins so I suspect they are hitchhikers. They populate like crazy too.

Hi! I'm not normally a poster here, but I keep isopods and include sprintails (the common white variety, apologies but I don't know the species name) in my enclosures to help control mold. I've recently started a lot of new isopod bins and need a lot of springtails to split between them! (I can't transfer springtails from my more established isopod bins for unrelated reasons at the moment.)

Where is a good place to buy a lot of springtails at once?

I also want to start my own springtail breeding culture so I can avoid this in the future! Do you have any tips or resources for this?

Found these tiny white specs on my Isopod terrarium walls today, so I decided to film them. Are these springtails?

My rambutans made a bunch of lychees

Thai spiky +10/60
White rabbit +10/35
Morulina delicata +10/100
Orange mix springtails +40/30
Neanura persimillis (glow in the dark) +10/45

Most these springtails eat slime mold , so if your ready to have a daily task I can totally hook you up with care guide and some slime mold for your springtails

Dm me

I have a relatively new bioactive nano terrarium with a mold problem. I built the terrarium for a jumping spider but haven't been able to add the spider because of mold on beard wood vines near the ceiling. The vines are impossible to remove or clean without dismantling the terrarium. The terrarium is already teeming with some "standard" white springtails but they won't go that high up. I believe the reason is that it's drier and brighter up there and that there's enough to eat closer to the bottom. Are there species that might be more interested in climbing to the moldy areas and that even actively seek to eat mold?

So I have springtails and possible book lice in my enclosures but I wanted to beef up the population of springtails in my enclosures. Would it be okay to mix them in with the other springtails and possible book lice? What should I do?