04-29-2011, 05:55 PM
So....if you read my other thread on "Seal your Springtails" ,you'll remember that I'm currently dealing with a sizable grain Mite population in my master Springtail culture. I am 100% positive that escape FF ,Turkish Gliders to be exact. Am I sure it was the Glider variety ? Yep. They are climbers and escapers....after a large feeding, a bunch of them climbed and got out of a couple KIS / Sterlite temporary bins and from there - into the gaps on those same KIS containers containing the Springtail cultures.
I have since gone to Rubbermade "snap on" flexable lids / container systems for keeping food fresh (and FF out, lets hope).
I salvaged 2 portions of the original Spring cultures and split them, like any good hobbyist, and I'm closely monitering them . There are still mites, mind, but also a good bit of Springtail activity. So there's hope !
Do you think I should curtail feeding the culture it's customary Dry Baby Cereal and try to starve out the mites ?
Every notice how springtails seems to live in some areas with no apparent food at all ? Like a discarded plant pot that you havent paid attention to in 8 months, let alone fed, and yet the springs are alive in there....
Thoughts ?
I have since gone to Rubbermade "snap on" flexable lids / container systems for keeping food fresh (and FF out, lets hope).
I salvaged 2 portions of the original Spring cultures and split them, like any good hobbyist, and I'm closely monitering them . There are still mites, mind, but also a good bit of Springtail activity. So there's hope !
Do you think I should curtail feeding the culture it's customary Dry Baby Cereal and try to starve out the mites ?
Every notice how springtails seems to live in some areas with no apparent food at all ? Like a discarded plant pot that you havent paid attention to in 8 months, let alone fed, and yet the springs are alive in there....
Thoughts ?
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