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The ultimate live bio-active cleanup crew and nutritious micro-feeder for tropical terrariums and tiny invertebrates.
Live Springtails (Collembola) are an absolute necessity for anyone maintaining a bio-active enclosure. These microscopic, wingless insects act as nature’s primary cleanup crew, working around the clock to consume mold, decaying plant matter, fungal spores, and animal waste. Their tiny size also makes them an exceptional supplemental food source for newly hatched amphibians and micro-invertebrates.
- Bio-Active Essential: Constantly cleans your soil to prevent harmful mold outbreaks and soil stagnation.
- Micro-Feeder: Perfect supplemental prey for dart frogs, neonate geckos, and tiny spiderlings.
- Self-Sustaining: Easily establishes a breeding colony directly inside damp, organic substrate setups.
- Perfect For: Poison dart frog vivariums, crested gecko terrariums, tarantula enclosures, and isopods.
Description
Keep your humid terrariums pristine and balanced with our high-yielding Live Springtail Cultures. These tiny, gentle insects are the foundation of a successful bio-active ecosystem, operating as an automated waste management team for your exotic pets’ habitats.
Nature’s Clean-Up Crew
In a closed, humid environment, mold and fungi can quickly take over, threatening the health of your animals. Springtails thrive in these exact conditions. By feeding aggressively on organic waste, fecal matter, shed skins, and mold spores, they outcompete harmful pests and keep your enclosure smelling fresh and looking clean. They form a perfect symbiotic relationship alongside live plants and isopods.
Why Choose Springtails?
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- Hassle-Free Maintenance: Once introduced to a damp enclosure with organic soil, they require zero maintenance. They will naturally reproduce and sustain their population based on the available waste.
- Enrichment for Micro-Predators: Because they have a unique “jumping” defense mechanism when disturbed, their quick movements provide fantastic hunting enrichment for tiny, sharp-eyed predators like poison dart frogs, baby praying mantises, and micro-geckos.
- Safe and Non-Invasive: Springtails cannot bite, sting, or harm your pets. They cannot survive in the dry environment of your home, meaning they pose zero risk of escaping into your house.
💡 Culture Care & Seeding Instructions
- How to Seed Your Enclosure: Gently dump or tip a portion of the culture (including the media) directly onto the dampest areas of your terrarium’s substrate, preferably under a piece of cork bark or moss.
- Substrate & Moisture: Springtails require constant moisture to survive. Ensure your terrarium substrate stays damp (not waterlogged) and includes organic elements like leaf litter or coco coir.
- Temperature: They thrive best at normal room temperatures between 20°C and 26°C.
- Feeding (Optional): If keeping them in their original culture jar long-term rather than adding them to a terrarium, feed them a tiny pinch of active dry yeast or specialized springtail food once a week. Only add more food once the previous meal has completely disappeared.
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Additional information
| Weight | .1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 6 × 6 × 3 cm |
| Springtail Species | Spanish Orange Springtails “Protanura Sp.”, Tropical Pink Springtails “Sinella Curviseta”, Tropical White Springtails “Folsomia Candida” |
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I ordered 2 types of springtails both came with just dirt and no springtails spent multiple days trying to lure something out of the dirt eventually spread it out and realized there was none. Full on scammed don’t buy.
The white springtails arrived dead. Otherwise, the order was okay.
Plenty in the container.
Our opinion on the springtails is so so. We were not able to see any springtails but we did see other little critters in the media. There seems to be some worm type bugs and some baby isopods. We will hopefully see some springtails show up in the tank in a few weeks.