Establish springtail population how?

[poison beauties]

they should be thriving in those conditions.Do you have a layer of leaf litter over your media? They burrow down but shouldn't be hard to find. They eat on the decaying leaf litter in most dart viv and tossing in a piece of mushroom will usually bring them up and create a feeding station

Michael

[killerecho]

No I don't have leaf litter - I'll look into that. I figured with all the mold that's building up in the tank right now, they should have plenty of food. But I can't spot any, not on the mold, not anywhere. Do you think I should keep putting more in there in the meantime? My culture is producing plenty. I have the temperate species btw, not the tropical.

they should be thriving in those conditions.Do you have a layer of leaf litter over your media? They burrow down but shouldn't be hard to find. They eat on the decaying leaf litter in most dart viv and tossing in a piece of mushroom will usually bring them up and create a feeding station

Michael

[poison beauties]

What frogs are in the viv? That could have something to do with the population. But yes look into leaf litter and reseeding the viv will help but wont fix the issue unless its that the frogs are eating them. Temperate or Tropical they all thrive under the same conditions, I culture both by the hundreds.

Michael

[killerecho]

Right now I don't have any frogs in there, just a lizard - a green anole that I'm keeping for a friend while he's away. When the tank is vacated I plan on having gray tree frogs in there (which I'm raising as tadpoles right now). So there's nothing that should be feeding on them or keeping their numbers down.

What frogs are in the viv? That could have something to do with the population. But yes look into leaf litter and reseeding the viv will help but wont fix the issue unless its that the frogs are eating them. Temperate or Tropical they all thrive under the same conditions, I culture both by the hundreds.

Michael

[poison beauties]

Then its likely the lack of food for them. To increase their numbers toss in leaf litter. But they can get overly abundant in there if nothing is eating them. An iso culture may be a better chouse for keeping the viv clean for treefrogs as they do not overpopulate the viv that easily..

Michael

[DonLisk]

Then its likely the lack of food for them. To increase their numbers toss in leaf litter. But they can get overly abundant in there if nothing is eating them. An iso culture may be a better chouse for keeping the viv clean for treefrogs as they do not overpopulate the viv that easily..

Michael

Thank you for that info Michael. I was wondering what would work in my Red Eys viv.
If my tree frogs substrate is moist, has leaf liter, and the hydro balls are rarely wet since my house heat dries the vivs out quickly, would the Iso culture still do well?

Don

[poison beauties]

If the humidity is good for the red eyes its likely fine for the iso's. The will most likely be in the leaf litter where humidity is optimal for them. They are viv cleaners. Some people have has issues with larger Iso's like the spanish orange eating on plants but i haven't seen it. There is usually plenty for them to eat in the bottom of the viv,
I actually keep my Iso cultures a little drier than my spring cultures. They tend to do better in lighter media and get around and reproduce more,

Michael