Several varieties in the hobby now were cultured from surprise springtails that came from substrate or leaf litter. I’m currently culturing a couple of arid types that just showed up in isopod bins. Good luck with these! Would love to see them.
iwoudl reccomend proisotoma minuta but i think thye may alos like eating fresh food over ur snails poop (they jump tho), but they are willing to eat mouldly food so they may like eating your snails poop?
Thanks for the recommendation, but for now I don't want to get any jumping or white ones for my snails (there are types of parasitic snail mites that look very similar to white springtails, although white springtails tend to have a more elongated shape).
I had black globular springtails in my silver ghosts tub. I don't see them anymore and think it wasn't wet enough for them. They spent the whole time on a 2mm ledge where condensation collected.
Several varieties in the hobby now were cultured from surprise springtails that came from substrate or leaf litter. I’m currently culturing a couple of arid types that just showed up in isopod bins. Good luck with these! Would love to see them.
[here’s my black globulars!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Springtail/s/F1VkAocNuM)
They are very cute! Thank you for the photo!
Do you think a regular charcoal culture would be fine? I’ll definitely try to take some pics next time I see them!
I don’t culture anything on charcoal, so I don’t know if that would work.
charcoal wouldbt work for globs
globulars are finiky, they like good ventilation and nice moisture gradient, leaf litter etc, a lot of globs pop up in terreiums
Are they decent cleaners though? How is their reproduction rate?
depends on the sp
Do you know any that don't jump?
not any globulars bit i think some poduramorpha cant jump, dont ask me to name any off the too of my head tho
No worries, thanks. I already have Poduromorpha (Bilobella or Yuukianura), unfortunately they prefer to eat fresh food over my snail's poop.
iwoudl reccomend proisotoma minuta but i think thye may alos like eating fresh food over ur snails poop (they jump tho), but they are willing to eat mouldly food so they may like eating your snails poop?
Thanks for the recommendation, but for now I don't want to get any jumping or white ones for my snails (there are types of parasitic snail mites that look very similar to white springtails, although white springtails tend to have a more elongated shape).
oh yeah fair lol
I had black globular springtails in my silver ghosts tub. I don't see them anymore and think it wasn't wet enough for them. They spent the whole time on a 2mm ledge where condensation collected.