All about Springtails: Their benefits and how to culture them easily yourself 

5:42 As a BGE BBQer I have years worth of charcoal bits that are too small to use. As a Polish immigrant raised in the Appalachian Mountains, I struggle to throw away anything that might be useful in hard times. I was MADE for this! 😀

Charcoal works great, my springtail culture though is just a jar with no lid that i chuck random crap in. Rats chew their seagrass? Chuck that in. Spill potting mix inside? Scoop that in. Eating fruit? Throw in a peel. Sometimes grass grows out of the jar. Its an experience aha. Practically 0 maintenance though and its cool watching them create airpockets to nest in against the glass, its like looking into a little organic geode. Been using it to seed my pot plants and terrariums with springtails for near on a year now. Tl;Dr: dont drown them or suffocate them and youre probably good

Currently watching this while surrounded by two types of springtails, these guys + some native brown ones. Was shocking the first time i saw them escape the rain by climbing on to my back veranda, but ive gotten used to shaking them outta my pants now. Can confirm that they are easy to cultivate though, bought one little tuppaware nearly two years ago and now i find them in my sock drawer and (as previously stated) on the ceiling aha

nice. im really poor and dont have any charcoal lol but i have some tupperware with moss in it from outside, its also got a bunch of soil i scooped up, leaves, other debris. its probably 6 months or older now. Its full of white springtails. They arent as big as these though and not nearly as numerous. but im trying to get them to thrive and add them to all my terrariums

One of the best aspects of this channel is learning about a species one has no knowledge of. Thanks Biggs ! There is so much here. I may have to watch it twice. With great respect, Jim

Wow this was simple and to the point, VERY WELL DONE and so helpful. Thank you!

shout out to springtails all my homies love springtails

Love your vids..! Always very informative, to the point, entertaining, and no clickbait needed :)

Usually when you see an "all about springtails" or isopods video it's pretty basic but no this is actually all about springtails

Brilliant video mate. Ive only recently got into making Terrariums. And ive now got 8 of them. Two have multiple variety of isopods and centerpedes...but all have springtails. Greetings from London. Rob.

Great video with great info.

Thank you

Spring and summer are big seasons on the farm eh lol looking forward to see updates on the lair take it easy Biggs

Great and very informative video! Thank you! :)

Great info 👊👊👊

Thank you for such an education video, made sure to leave a like! I muse over the fact that many of my springtail cultures in my isopod bins tend to do better than the isopods themselves!

How cool. Had no idea.

Hey Biggs! Where are you? Wondering when your next vid will be uploaded. I have been enjoying your content.

I just got some yesterday at Pet Smart. I have them on hardwood char and de-ionized water and rice plus a bit of flake fish food. If anything will mold its that stuff. lol

I usually see Sinella curviseta labled as "pink springtails" online

I recently sat a culture upsidedown on top of damp leopard gecko organic top soil and play sand substate with Pachysandra plants and pothos plants. Unfortunately 3 days in the clay dried out. Do you think most of the culture or enough could have left the container and are dispersed through the substrate? I do have cork bark, leaf litter etc too??? I appreciate your help and videos

Wow!! Awesome setup!! Nice work. In your previous video you mentioned good quality food we should use, what pellet food is good for Tanganyikans specifically a tank full of Caudopunctatus, neolamprologus multifasciatus, julidochromis and Cyprochromis leptosoma? Thanks

This is so interesting. I want to collect and culture my own springtails for a medium sized terrarium I'm putting together. My question is--after I've transferred some to the terrarium, what should I do with the rest of them? I see videos here on RU-vid where people open their culture container and they are teeming with the little creatures. I'm not going to need that many! Will they cause problems if I put that many back in the yard?

Something has hatched in the soil substrate in one of my heated enclosers I have no idea what these are barely visible to the eye. they seem to move fast and I only noticed because they are climbing the glass near the dirt. This is also the first time cricket eggs have hatched from feeder crickets

Will tree frogs eat up all your sprintales to the point you'll need to add more, or will they breed enough you won't have to worry?

Just bought for a 1.5 gallon terrarium, added springtail, and they talk you will always have a supply. How often do you need to add to tank?

Do they crawl out of the terriemum to other places of the home?

I just received my springtail container. I barely saw 2 🤣 i read on amazon where i bought it from. It takes weeks for them to show? 🤷

How much do you sell your springtails for? Been trying the raise worms and I can only keep a outdoor compose when I try to put the worms in something like a fabric pot I lose them and I end up with a bunch of springtails

Any videos about globular springtails? I was going to but some but have no idea if they are as easy as tropical white springtails

So tiny. The plants are very pretty.

I think I have these in my pot plants by the barn. Are they okay to leave alone?

I breed and sell white sprintails. Want to get some orange sprintails.

But where do you keep them stored, dark space, in de direct sunlight. Where do you place the containers?

where i live, i cant commercially buy a culture, so please teach us how to get or gather isopods and springtails from the environment, im from souther india but in my locality winters are mostly dry ground conditions, please help

What type of yeast are you using? great video thank you

I had a question about culture substrates. I don’t have any charcoal on hand, but I do have a big box of Fluval Bio-FX and was curious if this could be used as a culture substrate similar to charcoal?

Is that a Merulanella tri color isopod in the opening shot?

I hear charcoal isn’t good to put in the soil tho if your growing plants? So you have to dump the springtails out, wait a while then pick the charcoal out?

Where are the spring tails coming from??? I see you adding water charcoal and yeast but where are the spring tails?

so you dont need any air vent holes for them in the culture jars?

Good video, however please turn down the volume of your logo cut. That sound is toooooo loud. Thank you for your time.

Can you use bottled natural mineral water ? Thanks

nice audio leveling

So...always keep water in the container?

Adorable my foot, once they invade the house, RIP....that constant crawling sensation... especially arround moist body parts like eyes, nose, genitals......is shear madness inducing!! 😭

Master roshi?

your voice in the vid is very soft, and the music very loud.

Is it true they eat plant seedlings and are thus argricultural and houseplant pests?

does bonfire wood work?

Wear a mask when you break up the charcoal!!! I’m not sure why I very foolishly did not but was blowing black out of my nose a couple of hours later🤦🏻‍♀️

I don't like those annoying little ones (2:43)! Springtails are cool, though...

Something is biting me & causing major damage to my skin

That music interlude was irritating. Please refrain

Globular are horrifying looking.

your commentary is volume 1 your intro music is like 48.

The volume is so annoyingly low on this video , & I turned it up as loud as it will go. Maybe skip making videos until u can improve the audio.

1 min in and my ears exploded...stopped watching video