Springtails!!! How to keep, care and culture. 

You guys have the absolute best customer service thank you!

I wish I would have known this before I used mine. Great video

Thank you. That was very helpful and to the point. I bought an Exo Terra enclosure for my new Curly Hair T and want to add springtails to the substrate and keep some for later so thanks!

I contacted Josh's Frogs about not having any more than maybe five springtails in the culture that I purchased, even after a few weeks. I never got a reply :(

How did y'll know I was researching spring tails and post a video about it?

Thank you for this video. Now I know a better way of distributing springtails into my tanks.

The view of a mature culture led me to expect a lot of adults on arrival Not in February. The Springtails arrive with an instruction sheet. Wish I had read it first. Basically is says in cold weather the adults die. However there should be viable eggs, wait a few weeks for adults.

Love your hair btw

Hoping for some feedback on this. Making every effort to NOT panic. Built a springtail culture container as per most of the instructions found on line. Could not find large pieces of the charcole so bought some small size stuff from Amazon. Dumped the entire container of springtaIls into the culture container and it was slow to start but doing great...till now. Noticed a very obvious decline in the number of them lately. Just today I finally saw what is likely most of the problem...black soldier fly larvae in my culture container. I have quite a few of them in my terrarium, but thought nothing of it till it got to 4-6 hatching every day in there. Yet one more serious problem. But the springtails are supposed to be FOR the terrarium. So I have been using a small piece of tree bark to transfer them to the terrarium. But apparently after the bark is clear of them and I put it back into the culture container, that some of the adult black soldier flies have laid eggs on the bark and those have hatched in my springtail culture container. I can dump the entire container and start over. But is that my only option ?

very timely video, good information!

Cool video Dominique

Can I put springtails in my open side terrarium?

The water in my springtail enclosure is a little cloudy from their food. Do you ever need to clean their enclosure? Will the water go bad?

Do I keep the lid screwed on or just loosely to store it?? Didn’t understand

Thanks

All mine are dead. What can I do from here?? They arrived dead today. I’ve done the flip, and leave open to air. Nothing is moving still.

Excellent thank you

I’m having a difficult time increasing my springtails I ordered from you, in no way am I speaking negatively about your product and on the contrary it’s my possible lack of skills. I’ve feed them the special food as mentioned in the bottle and it’s been about 3 months that I’ve kept them in a pre washed charcoal chemical free organic quality. I open the lid 2 and sometimes 3 times a day for about 5 minutes, I have water in the container and occasionally mist some on top. Am I doing something wrong?

I bought 3 cultures recently and two of them are basically mite cultures with just a few springtails. Anyone know of any way to salvage them or should I just throw them out?

Do y'all have any advice on using these in arid setups? I have several species of desert scorpions with live plants in the enclosures and I figure some springtails couldn't hurt. I'm afraid to use isopods and risk stressing the animals out during molt, especially the scorplings that aren't much bigger than the isopods themselves.

What type of substrate do you have at the bottom, is it just norml fine gravel

So they wont drown in the water? And the charcoal wont hurt your Tarantula?

I’m trying to figure out if I need temperate or tropical springtails for a ball python enclosure

I received my springtails. I only saw 2 alive 💀 How do i get a full refund or a replacement? 🤷

How do you know how many springtails to pour inside the enclosure? And why charcoal? Can we actually use substrate to cultivate them?

How often do you use spring tail food

I just put my Bioactive together the other day for my crestie, but can’t put him in yet since he’s still too small. But I put in the springtails with part of the cultures. Am I still suppose to feed the ones in the Bioactive with the springtails food?

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What do I do if there are no springtails

So will more spring tails cultivate on their own with the food? If so, how often do you need to feed?

I was pretty dissapointed with the culture I got from you it was pretty sparce and the substrate wasint even charcoal

until the springtail food gives your cultures worms! gyazo.com/4fe5fcd1779fa55a94e081b65f1d3f87

She looks like someone on hub hahaha 😅✌

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