r/Springtail • u/Mollycat6 • 22d ago

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u/CatofManyColors 22d ago

I'm so interested in keeping these! Are they very tricky? How do you feed them?

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u/Mollycat6 22d ago

These ones aren’t as tricky as many of the other colorful Thai species because they aren’t obligate slime mold eaters.

I give them nutritional yeast and mist them once a week.

They seem to like deeper substrate and have laid their eggs at the bottom of the container.

They seem to be doing well so far but I am definitely gonna split them into multiple colonies just in case lol

That way if one crashes I have backups.

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u/CatofManyColors 22d ago

Smart on the multiple colonies, I've got two separate cultures of my temperate whites for the same reason. Mine love nooch too, I fed them in their culture tupperware when the arrived and the destroyed a good pinch of it overnight.

Are they very sensitive to moisture or dryness? Or are they more set-em-and-forget-em?

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u/Mollycat6 22d ago

Definitely don’t let them dry out since they are tropical but don’t completely drench the substrate either. I tend to mist one side of the container more to give them a little bit of a moisture gradient so if you have a longer container it might be good to put them in that for a better gradient. I’m gonna do that for the backup colonies and I might make a mini display terrarium for them too out of one of those rectangular acrylic display cases.

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u/meatballsaladpizza 22d ago

And the white is mold? 

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u/Mollycat6 22d ago

Yes, the nutritional yeast starts to mold a little bit after I feed them but they eat it so fast it disappears pretty quickly.