Convinced you have the best springtail culture method?

[Frognut]

Hey Nate

you should not have water standing in the bottom. also Ive been adding broken up oak leaves in mine as well. Ive been feeding mushrooms, veg peels and yeast as of late. the trick to feeding is to feed smaller amounts more offten so you dont have a bloom then a crash. or feed alot to a culture that you intend to split or use as substrate in a new viv.

[flyangler18]

I've never had population booms like I do when I feed mushrooms. It's springtail super food! A heavily populated culture will destroy a mushroom slice in near record time :shock:

[Sokretys]

cool, yeah was going to ask how small you cut up the shrooms. right now ive got mushrooms halves small broccoli and yeast. a lot of them seem to be chilling out on the black underside of the muchrooms. as far as the leaf little, my order got held back but hes shipping it today with my leaf litter. there isnt any standing water., ive just been misting daily to keep it moist. that about right? thanks..

[EDs Fly Meat]

I've never had population booms like I do when I feed mushrooms. It's springtail super food! A heavily populated culture will destroy a mushroom slice in near record time

Here is another person thinking outside of the box, and one with a really good idea. Springtails eat rotting fungus so it makes perfect sense that they would find these worthy. I'll have to try that one out.

[flyangler18]

I'll have to try that one out.

Definitely. Always makes it super easy to harvest springs out for feeding. Skewer the mushroom with a toothpick and leave it in the culture. Springs will begin devouring the mushroom, and you pick up the toothpick and shake the springs off the mushroom into viv. Can't say it's an idea of my own creation...picked it up somewhere here on DB.

right now ive got mushrooms halves small broccoli and yeast

Be careful with feeding anything too rich- seems to bring on mites strong. Yeast and mushrooms do well for me, and that's what I feed exclusively.

[markbudde]

I came across this website tonight. It basically describes how temperate whites have been cultured for the last 50+ years! Apparently they were collected in U. Kansas greenhouse in prior to 1951. I propose, to clarify which springs people are talking about, we refer to these hereafter as Sinella curviseta. Yes, I am serious.


Credit to M. Khadavi for the pic.

[gary1218]

Originally Posted by markbudde

I came across this website tonight.

That is pretty interesting AND simple. I'm surprised they do best when set up in small 4oz containers. That seems pretty small to me. Worth giving a try.

[Corpus Callosum]

Mark, so the springs in that pic are Sinella curviseta?

[frog_dude]

Mine's pretty basic. I have a plastic storage box with about 3 inches of coco soil, pretty damp. I feed them with ready brek cereal, as it's fortified with vits and minerals. I have about half a dozen small peices of cork bark in the tub, and a couple in each of my thumbnail vivs. At feeding time i just swap the peices of cork bark over. I harvest every other day, and they've been going strong for over a year.

[dylanserbin]

would Leca clay balls work well for a medium for Springtail cultures to live in?