Every culture I start either fails immediately or become infected with little red mites and then fails. How are people sucessfully culturing springtails longterm.
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Help 1what is the best way to culture springtails?
ahphule
Jun 25, 2003 02:19 PM
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Peaceofthetropic
Jun 25, 2003 03:55 PM
Go to edsflymeatinc.com and they tell how to raise them. They also sell all the supplies for it. I just setup a large rubbermaid with them. I used to use peat moss as a substrate, but it gets stinky and I had a problem with gnats.
Ken
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melissa68
Jun 26, 2003 07:35 AM
We use a rubbermain shoebox with hardwood charcoal. We feed them cous-cous & fish food & they flourish. One thing we did find out is not to use tap water when you set them up. I couldn't figure why they were dying...and that was the problem. So now I only use distilled when I set them up.
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rc_racer_007
Jun 26, 2003 08:39 AM
i too am looking at springtail cultures. i see you keep em in a rubber made shoe box. wont they climb the sides? i have seen picture of ff set ups, does any one have pics of spring tail set ups?
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shopaholic
Jun 28, 2003 02:23 PM
I've only been culturing them for a few months, but i've not had any of the difficulties people have posted about. Got my first culturing kit and culture from Eds Flymeat. A rubbermaid shoebox filled with hardwood charcol. I used RO water and the brewers yeast and wam! they're swarming. None climb the sides, they like to hide down inside the 1/2 inch of water beneath or in the charcol. Sure they could venture up the sides but they don't seem to like to do that. Just follow the culture instructions as Eds Flymeat provides. If they have everything they need, why would they roam. Now, if someone comes up with how to keep the ff from climbing side of everything and escaping, that would be extreemly helpful!
