I make my own using distilled water and charcoal. Put a small bit of rice in there and they grow. Then I put a couple spoonfuls of them in the viv. I will have to try the yeast.
I make my own using distilled water and charcoal. Put a small bit of rice in there and they grow. Then I put a couple spoonfuls of them in the viv. I will have to try the yeast.
Wow, I never heard about raising springtails this way. I keep mine on millipede soil relatively dry with one spot I spray with declorinated tap water every two days. I feed them cucumber, potato, celery, grapes....you name it and they eat it. Currently my cultures are out of control lol.
Everyone has given good advice which they personally use. I will just add that different varieties of springtails may require or rather thrive more on a "soil" type substrates whereas others do better on charcoal. We currently culture Silver, Tropical, Temperate and Tropical Pink Springtails, We have found by Our large master cultures of springtails that silver springtails do better on ABG type substrate whereas Our temperate springtails really boom on charcoal and then we transfer them to soil. When you receive your Springtail cultures split them onto different media and grow them out before transferring to your viv noting what seems to work best..
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So I changed how I feed the springtails. I do not have brewers yeast so I just got some yeast packets and tried it out. In one week the culture quadrupled in size and this is the biggest increase in population I have had. So much better than using rice ( which I found fruit flies would grow out of. I have no idea how that happened). Next I will split this culture and try a substrate instead of just carbon and distilled water.
Yeast is good as it will be more immediately available for food as it will ferment faster than a rice grain and is already broken down. Our own Springtail Culture Food is composed of immediately available Vitamins serving as the best of Nutrients for your Springtails and is already broken down for Quick Assimilation. Grains like rice often contain eggs from several varieties of pests like gnats or moth. It is good to use these procedures you are doing in order to determine what will cause your colonies to thrive.
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