All about Springtails: Their benefits and how to culture them easily yourself

Springtails (Collembolla) are true a powerhouse for the bioactive vivarium. These fascinating albeit diminutive Anthropods are an integral part of the micro fauna of the forest floor.
Today we tackle this most requested topic in All about Springtails...Everything you wanted to know or perhaps not know about what they do, How they are beneficial to an ecosystem and how to easily culture them yourself.
I hope you'll join me today.
Take care,
Biggs
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[RichardBronosky]

5:42 As a BGE BBQer I have years worth of charcoal bits that are too small to use. As a Polish immigrant raised in the Appalachian Mountains, I struggle to throw away anything that might be useful in hard times. I was MADE for this! 😀

[beastamers]

Charcoal works great, my springtail culture though is just a jar with no lid that i chuck random crap in. Rats chew their seagrass? Chuck that in. Spill potting mix inside? Scoop that in. Eating fruit? Throw in a peel.

Sometimes grass grows out of the jar. Its an experience aha. Practically 0 maintenance though and its cool watching them create airpockets to nest in against the glass, its like looking into a little organic geode. Been using it to seed my pot plants and terrariums with springtails for near on a year now.

Tl;Dr: dont drown them or suffocate them and youre probably good

[jamesgreen]

One of the best aspects of this channel is learning about a species one has no knowledge of.

Thanks Biggs ! There is so much here. I may have to watch it twice.

With great respect,

Jim

[beastamers]

Currently watching this while surrounded by two types of springtails, these guys + some native brown ones. Was shocking the first time i saw them escape the rain by climbing on to my back veranda, but ive gotten used to shaking them outta my pants now.

Can confirm that they are easy to cultivate though, bought one little tuppaware nearly two years ago and now i find them in my sock drawer and (as previously stated) on the ceiling aha

[PitsFam]

Wow this was simple and to the point, VERY WELL DONE and so helpful. Thank you!

[MattMajcan]

nice. im really poor and dont have any charcoal lol but i have some tupperware with moss in it from outside, its also got a bunch of soil i scooped up, leaves, other debris. its probably 6 months or older now. Its full of white springtails. They arent as big as these though and not nearly as numerous. but im trying to get them to thrive and add them to all my terrariums

[johnnygalaxy]

Love your vids..! Always very informative, to the point, entertaining, and no clickbait needed :)

[MIsopods]

Thank you for such an education video, made sure to leave a like!
I muse over the fact that many of my springtail cultures in my isopod bins tend to do better than the isopods themselves!

[charlesroy]

Spring and summer are big seasons on the farm eh lol looking forward to see updates on the lair take it easy Biggs

[RDPproject]

Brilliant video mate. Ive only recently got into making Terrariums. And ive now got 8 of them. Two have multiple variety of isopods and centerpedes...but all have springtails. Greetings from London. Rob.

[warlordzephyr]

Usually when you see an "all about springtails" or isopods video it's pretty basic but no this is actually all about springtails

[brodielynn]

….I had no idea what these cuties were…and dumped the dirt out and repotted my plant! 🥺

When I found them in another potted plant, I did some research. Now I know they are friends and will leave them be 🥰

[maanerotte]

Great and very informative video! Thank you! :)

[contentinternational]

I see you are a man of culture as well...

[eggygeorge]

My original culture that I got today came on a soil mix though. How do I get them into the charcoal set up so I can breed more if they are currently on soil? Can I just add them with the soil? ❤

[bunnyxxjay]

Something has hatched in the soil substrate in one of my heated enclosers I have no idea what these are barely visible to the eye. they seem to move fast and I only noticed because they are climbing the glass near the dirt. This is also the first time cricket eggs have hatched from feeder crickets

[eyeballpirate]

Hey Biggs! Where are you? Wondering when your next vid will be uploaded. I have been enjoying your content.

[TheCian]

Would they be beneficial for growing mushrooms?

[kal]

shout out to springtails all my homies love springtails

[summera]

What type of yeast are you using? great video thank you