[Percularis]

I successfully seeded my viv with springtails. I tip my culture until some water pools and I suck them out with a turkey baster and pour them Ito the tank. My problem is that the colonize wherever I pour them. They won't even venture to clean up decaying frog poop 4-5" away from where I put them. The result is that they are creating suceasful mini-colonies in one spot instead of feeling through the whole viv and eating decaying stuff. I have one colony on one log, one colony on another log and a colony on the other side of one log to clean up the poos on the magnolia leaves. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Pumilo]

Give them time. Why leave the garden of eden? Eventually they will breed and have to spread out.

 

[macasus]

yeah give them like a month and you will start to see a lot of them everywhere, my vivs are 3 weeks in with springs and i see them everywhere.

 

[Pumilo]

Tossing in a few mushrooms will really get them going!

 

[varanoid]

And\or throwing a pinch of yeast under the leaf litter will help as well. They will spread out eventually

 

[Percularis]

I threw a pinch of yeast next to their little piece of charcoal.

 

[varanoid]

And how is it working? Are they swarming the yeast yet?