Strait coco chips work best for MOST. There are a lot of different types and some are specialists. For the ones that can be mass cultured such as tropicals common silver etc. because it`s like a high rise apt. Lots of surface area stable enough to be covered on all sides w/ springs. the fungus feeders seem to turn mushrooms into there own substrate and burrow thru the dark organic " soils" they make. I rarely see these springs distributed througout the coco chips, they congrgate around this black top layer most of the time. these are the white and blues that look segmented kinda like worms and are longer than the trop springs. the blues(blacks) can be small or med size. This" group" of springs can be recognized by their ability to bbend their bodies when they turn, similar to a millipede.
The nice thing about the coco chips is that you can make a dump pile in the corner for then to feed off and you don`t have to worry about dryer coco peat being ingested en mass. Just dump a portion of the culture in the tank and add more coco chips to keep the culture going. no trying to transfer them off anything or getting them to congrgate in one area to remove for feeding.
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