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Hi everyone. I’m very new to the hobby and just recently set up my first viv. I put the springtails and isopods in about a week ago. After the first two days I had spotted a couple isos and 1 springtail but since then I haven’t seen a thing. I put a couple grains of rice and bug burger where I...

So I've got some aquatic plants that I'm trying to propogate outside of the fishtank in two different immersed setups, both set up within the past week. One has potting soil and the other has just black topsoil. I put springtails in both and just checked on them and what I found was that in the...

Hello, in some of my plants I have some random springtails that must have hitchhiked along from something or other. If I'm building a new frog tank should I just use these or should I buy a culture of springtails?

I just purchased a springtail culture from a lady on offer up, and upon further inspection of the culture I found it contains mites. From what I’ve seen on YouTube tutorials, I’ve heard mites can be a serious issue and very hard to deal with. I was wondering if you guys knew how I can tell if my...

Hello all, I have a substrate consisting of topsoil, reptisoil and sand (recommended by reptifiles as a diy tropical mix). I noticed that it compacts down a quite a bit especially when wet. Will this be a problem for springtails or should I add some Coco fiber or something else to keep it from...

I made a terrarium out of a big vas that has a seal, but i didnt use charcoal in it i made a false bottom with a netting over it and then the substrate then i added moss watered it and then closed it. My question is what chances of surviving does it have since i didnt use charcoal. I live in...

I have a 75 gallon paludarium and was originally going to house reed frogs but they don't eat a lot of things and i wanted to make the paludarium have a built in food chain with sprigtails and things like them. What herps should i house in my tank