How To Set Up A Springtail Culture: Tutorial

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• published: 09 May 2014
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Please LIKE our video and SUBSCRIBE to our channel! We post videos weekly. Cory is showing you how to set up your own springtail culture. The purpose in doing this is to have a continual supply of springtails, which can be used to create a more balanced vivarium, a self-sustaining eco-system. This is great for poison dart frogs. We got our kit from: http://readyreptilefeeders.com/Best-Place-to-Buy-Feeder-Insects-Online.php Transcript: So my wife wants me to say, "Hello Youtubers", but instead we're just gonna cut right to culturing springtails, which are good janitors for trying to keep fungus out of your vivarium. Also, if you have poison dart frogs, they are a great side snack so, I've got a substrate. It's basically mulch for them to grow in. Now, add distilled water so that way they have a moist environment. They need humidity. Also, they eat fungus. There we go. All right. So, to grow the mold I've been aging strawberries. Aging by, letting it sit in the back of the fridge. I'm going to add these in, eventually they will grow something. Springtails are extremely tiny, these are tropical springtails. Where are the springtails? Uh, they ran away the second I opened it up. Hmm, well I'm going to just them in the container. It's just a small, plastic container. Oh, you can see the little white dots moving. It's a springtail. Okay, yeah, I see them. Now, they don't need much oxygen. What they are eating produces plenty of CO2 (carbon monoxide) I did cut in holes, placing a little bit of screen crisscrossing different layers. Although, of course, I don't really think it will do much, it's at least something to keep the springtails in. So, what's the purpose for growing the springtails? They eat fungus and help recycle waste in your vivarium. They act as janitors. Plus, also, your dart frogs need a snack, they serve as a great little side snack. I wouldn't rely on them for too much calories, but they are a good start. Also, they can be kept alongside isopods, which are kind of like, well they--they are pill bugs, potato bugs, roly polys. I'll be ordering them later. They serve a similar function, only they don't eat mold, they eat decaying matter, but that...that is that. Subscribe to our channel and like our videos!