I have a 55g vivarium set up, which currently houses 5 fbt, the temp. usually stays around 70F, and the humidity has been constant around 90% since I added sheet moss to the land area, and also has a handful of different plants purchased from a local pet store. It took awhile for the plants to take root, but it seemed like they started growing really well soon after I noticed springtails around the tank, which I didn't purchase, they just started showing up. Over the last couple weeks though I have noticed the population of springtails in the tank has exploded to the point they are floating in the water. I don't notice them crawling on the fbt's or bothering them in any way and all are a nice bright green so they don't appear to be stressed. My question I guess is can there be a point in which having to many is bad? Has anyone else had this issue?
Don't be concerned. The first 'bloom' is usually the largest.
They will cycle on and off, depleting the 'new' food source; then the population will stabilize.
They will keep the roots of your plants healthy!
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I used to have a huge colony of springtails in my toad's old ten gallon. They were annoying to my toad. They would always crawl on her, crawl on her worms in her food dish, and get in her water. I moved my toad to a 20 gallon and it doesn't seem like the springtails follow. But, whatever, it appears that they are good.
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