
08-08-2019, 03:43 AM
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Re: Mite ID/Help? (resolved- mold mites)
Hello all,
Thank you for your responses!
You were right, something else is contributing to the plant's downfall- I consulted with an entomologist friend of mine and she identified them as mold mites, so they eat the decaying plants but don't seem to bother the living. My springtails seem to be doing fine too, though, so these mites will just be a another snack for my eventual thumbnails! In the meantime, I'm swabbing out any visible clusters of them+eggs just to keep their numbers a little lower for the sake of the bugs I put in there on purpose.
As for the plants, I think I'm just new to plant keeping and am overwatering them or something, or they were overstressed during shipping. The vivarium is a Josh's Frogs bioactive kit - hydroton under ABG under sphagnum moss under leaf litter. It's only a few weeks old, so I'm still pretty much helicopter-parenting it, lol.
Thank you again! I hope this thread can folks with a similar problem in the future, too.
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