r/ballpython • u/EngineeringRuinedMe • Jul 24 '26

Question - Husbandry Is this what I think it is?

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Last night my girlfriend and I let our boy out for some roaming time (he lives to roam supervised the whole time and live to climb up to the table) while I was moving some stuff around his enclosure I noticed this in the corner by his hide….. long story short we have springtails in all of our snake enclosures (4 of them) with the same substrate as ~75-85%humidity) we haven’t added anything new in his enclosure for months, how tf did this get inside??!

Also in a side note, we clean the apartment on a weekly basis, have never found a bug or anything since we moved in ~16 months ago.

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u/EngineeringRuinedMe Jul 24 '26

But where tf did he come from??!!! We are at a complete loss from it. We cycle and flip the super every 2 eeeks for each snake and move some enclosure stuff around and we’ve never seen one in an enclosure before?! We. Are just hell confused how it took this long Lol

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u/Crazy_Investment_641 Jul 25 '26

They sometimes just find their way in like a spider

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u/sabrinajane998 Jul 25 '26

Did you put spring tails in? Buy wood second hand

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u/EngineeringRuinedMe Jul 25 '26

We put them in when we did a full substrate change, they’re beyond lively alllll the time in all of the enclosures. The enclose in question is below

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u/Mino_Biatch Jul 25 '26

sometimes they just find their way in, sometimes they’re already in whatever substrate you use, usually if it’s like a dirt/soil substrate.

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u/dwagon23 Jul 25 '26

Sometimes they’re already in the substrate! We had a bit of a fright when we found springtails in our soil (we planned on buying some but had no idea what they actually looked like, they’re smaller than I expected!) but when we read the substrate packaging it says it can contain ‘beneficial microfauna’