Found something around my cultures...

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hmm somehow my post went on wrong thread.

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ok, so there was a little at one corner of the springtail container again today. I got a few pics, but it's hard to see still. I also will share a couple pics of how I store things.... I know I said nothing touches but I forgot about the second container sitting on top of the one... it just has the dirt left over from the culture in it basically and I was waiting to make sure there weren't any springs I missed hatching or something. I actually need to clean that out and get rid of it now. As you can see it looks a lot like a fine substance or powder sprinkled around the edge of where the box sits.

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My culture is finally booming for sure... yay! I can see them crawling and hopping all over. So I have been adding them to my viv once in a while. I am, however, still seeing this brown stuff around the culture every day. I wipe it up each day, but it's always back the next. I have inspected the tissue each time and never see anything moving, but I am not ruling out some sort of mite thing. I just don't know what else it could be?! It hasn't seemed to harm my culture, and my fly cultures are still clear looking on the containers that I can see and the brown stuff is never around those. Any thoughts?

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supplements ?

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the supplements are in their containers in a box and aren't brown... not sure it could be that.