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  1. General Health & Disease Treatment
    The vet diagnosed my new Dendrobates tinctorius "Citronella" with a mild nematode infestation. On his recommendation, I threw everything out of the terrarium (he was an only frog in it) and it is now on paper towels and a bit of Sphagnum moss for next 4 weeks. I have already sterilized the...
  2. General Discussion
    How important is having dwarf white isopods or related CUC isopods in your tanks? How about springtails? Has anyone had any side-by-side close approximations to notice differences? i.e. no CUC, springtails only, dwarf whites only, springs and isos? If you do keep CUC, how often are you...
  3. Beginner Discussion
    I’ve had my first viv up for about 6 months. Plants and frogs are doing great and growing. MY QUESTION: How long until I need to add more springtails / isopods? I added them and let them establish for about a month before frogs. I don’t ever see them. Are they still there? Do I even need to add...
  4. Food & Feeding
    I have had a huge population boom of soil mites and think they have been out competing my springtails as i don't see any in my viv but i see hundreds of soil mites. I want to use Josh's Bug Blade but im scared it will hurt my isos and springtails.
  5. Food & Feeding
    I added an 8oz culture of springtails to my vivarium about 2 months ago and ever since then they seem to have evolved and now jump. I wasn't sure about the amount of springtails to add so I reached out to the company that I bought them from (Josh's Frogs) and they recommended adding the entire...
  6. Beginner Discussion
    Could I have killed my springtails and isopods by accident? I set up the substrate with leaf litter and sphagnum moss and put a whole box of dwarf Isos and two boxes of springtails in. They were doing fine. But the liner fleece looked ugly, so I removed the whole substrate and put it into a...
  7. Food & Feeding
    I have had springtail cultures going for the last year or so without ever running into an issue until recently. I have two different cultures going both using charcoal, but one is like pebble size charcoal the other is much larger lumps of charcoal. I feed them some yeast a couple times a week...
  8. Identification Forum
    Hey everyone. I had a few questions about things I've seen crawling in my spring and iso cultures, I did my best to get some photos. In all the springtail pictures, the big white blobs are yeast granules because I cleverly just fed them right before photo time. First of all, I'm pretty sure...
  9. Plants
    Hi guys, I recently built this terrarium and let it cycle. However, I wasn't completely happy with it, because the frogs would not have hiding spots, so I added wood. Currently it is like this: Soon after, lights stopped working so for this past three days I have used a normal reading lamp...
  10. Food & Feeding
    New to all of this and I just bought a 32oz container of springtails and would like to start breeding them. I saw some saying active dry yeast, rice flour, and possibly mushroom powder was a good mix but does anyone have some ratios of these ingredients and how much/how often to feed them? TIA
  11. Food & Feeding
    Hello everyone! I have noticed that most places where you can purchase springtails only sell certain kinds. The common whites or sometimes the larger black springtails. I remember when I was younger I had a colony of red springtails. These were wild caught and I'm 100% sure they were not mites...
  12. New Members Introductions
    Because I am a silly goose and posted this as a response in someone else's thread. This reminds me of a question I have been trying to research. Will the bacteria in Mosquito Dunks/Bits (which also kill Fungus Gnat larva, making it one of the best ways to kill Fungus Gnats) harm Springtails or...
  13. Parts & Construction
    hello, i know this topic has been brought up before however i do have some important questions, IF a terrarium is large enough would it be possible to have a self sustaining tank. in the feeding aspect of things ? what i mean is lets say i had a very large tank heavily seeded with...
  14. Food & Feeding
    I've frequently seen people mention on here that this is a tricky species to culture and that thriving populations will often crash and stop producing. This is partially true but this species is capable of a neat trick when conditions become unfavourable that in colder climates is used to...
  15. Parts & Construction
    Hi, I didn't quite see any posts like this anywhere. I started cultivating plants in an old tank, green onions, peppermint, aloe, cilantro.... I heard the benefits of a bioactive substrate and threw some isos n springos in there. I have MiracleGro peat moss and organic soil with worm castings...
  16. General Health & Disease Treatment
    Just cleaned out three pacman containers because they suddenly had what i believe were springtails everywhere. I have a springtail culture in a shoebox, and springtails came in the vivarium with a waterfall that i got containing three firebellies several months ago. Am not sure how the...
  17. Parts & Construction
    Has anyone incorporated charcoal into a background to try to boost springtail populations? I'm working on a fake vine/root background and I had the thought of gluing some pieces of charcoal to the back, kinda hidden behind the vines. I want the viv I'm working on to be able to support...
  18. Breeding, Eggs & Tadpoles
    I've looked in the other threads about this and apparently the springs will only eat unfertilized eggs. Is this true for sure? I had a clutch that as best I can tell the male had fertilized and was hydrating. The hut is in a slightly difficult area, but I can shine a flashlight in there. I was...
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