r/Springtail

I found this tiny fella on the North Island of New Zealand. At first I thought it was a plump springtail, but I have been unable to ID it, and it just doesn’t quite look like a springtail to me (that I know of at least). I was then thinking it could be a beetle larvae, but the antennae look too chubby, like a springtail’s.

The little guy was maybe around 0.5 to 1mm long.

I know all the photos are basically from the same angle 😅. I wish I’d gotten one of its head!

Anyone recognize it?

Has anyone here tried building a springtail colony using mud?. It is so good they multiply faster than in coal/wood chips

They keep jumping out of this deli cup.

The ones that are smaller than the tropical pinks

I hope someone have it and share.

Ugh I love these guys so much

I've been interested in springtails for about a year and a half. I read a lot about them, I'm out in the bushes looking for new specimens almost every day, and I feed and observe dozens of species daily. I even run an online micro pets shop in Poland, Europe (Ants Invasion). To my knowledge, it's the largest springtail shop in the world, at least I've never been able to find any larger one. If any of you know one, please share a link. Currently, I keep around 25 species of springtails, including 4 slime eaters. Most of these springtails, including all the slime eaters, are doing incredibly well. I breed most of my springtails differently than other breeders suggest, and at the same time, I usually achieve much greater success at a much lower cost in terms of time, culture volume, and ingredient prices. Springtails that are described as super difficult are usually mega easy to breed if you provide a few simple conditions, and their setup usually costs well under one dollar or euro. I also mean the setup for springtails like Rambutanura. I often post pictures here and get asked about various things. I thought I'd create an Ask Me Anything style thread. I will probably answer every question you ask, except for questions about my suppliers. Feel free to ask whatever you want. In the end, I will turn all of this into a FAQ or Q&A and post it both here and on the website.

Took out a small clump of soil and moss because I thought I saw some detritus worms competing with my gummy springtails for a fish food pellet.

Between 1mm-1cm long and were white, but upon closer inspection, they had segments(?), antennae, and many many legs.

The weirdest part is that when removed from moisture, they dry up and die really quickly, like within 5 minutes. They turn redder/browner as they die.

Does anyone know what they are and whether my terrarium is in trouble? This terrarium is over 2 years old and this is the first time these have appeared.

I have a bioactive crested gecko tank with isopods and springtails, however i had a few remaining springtsils in a container in hopes they would breed and... it worked too well.. i cant see to many springtails in the tank and at the time I barely got any in there but now I have a entire lot full of springtails and im not sure if I should add them to the tank or set them free. Honestly im scared to open the container.

Cruddy camera video, sorry. These guys are popping up in my wild Armadillidium isopod + temperate white springtail tank, range in size from almost can't see 'em to this guy here, 4mm-ish? Are they another type of springtail or a Problem? Not seeing them in my dwarf purple isopod + temperate white setup but I used a lot of the same materials in both so if these things hitched a ride in on something it may just be a matter of time before I see them with the dwarf purples (and they're definitely bigger and pushier than the dwarf purples, which wouldn't be a good mix).

I found this neon pink beauty in my fire pit coals in East Tennessee. I put it in a container to try to culture it. I just don’t know if it is a springtail because it doesn’t seem to spring instead in scrunches up. If it is a springtail is it possible to culture with just one?

Ceratophysella isabellae "Yellow Albino" munching on some Physarum polycephalum.

I guess not necessarily a question about millipedes themselves but are those two little dark specks on the wood springtails? The photo is shit but the second photo is a stock photo I found that looks exactly what they look like. The stock photo was listed as springtails so I’d assume so?

I have a problem with fungus gnats but I’ve been using bti to manage it so I’m really hoping these aren’t gnat larvae or something

Do you remember how I recently posted a picture of the baby Thai Spikies? It's been 2 weeks and they are already half the length of an adult... They grow like crazy!

Mcdo springtails, about 80 of the first eggs. I can't wait for the babies and of course another 500-1000 eggs, which will probably appear within a week or two!:)

Mcdo springtails, about 80 of the first eggs. I can't wait for the babies and of course another 500-1000 eggs, which will probably appear within a week or two!:)

I can't take a picture from above because the phone won't focus. But in the second picture you can see 30-40 eggs of the beautiful and very rare in breeding Jollibee springtails.