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Old 02-19-2010, 11:29 PM
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Default Re: My Top 10 Beginner Mistakes

Man, I can't believe I'm still making beginner mistakes.

I have been raising blue springtails on large charcoal chunks over coco chunks. I have some ancon hills that hide a lot and have not been putting on weight very well so I was trying to lure them out by putting the large charcoal piece, teeming with springtails into the middle of the tank. I was hoping a feeding station scenario would bring them out a bit more. Unfortunatly I put the charcoal back into the original springtail shoebox when they were done with it.

As you can guess my culture crashed DEAD after doing that twice. I suspect I introduced other fauna into the culture (I saw an Isopod in there?). It is now a poorly populated mite culture.

I no longer have blue springtails.
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