- Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:41 am
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Wow, this is an amazing photo! I have a springtail colony in with my pet cockroaches and they like to lay eggs on the underside of the stones in the vivarium.
Beaver746, springtails are awesome! They eat mold and fungi, so are really useful in closed systems like a terrarium, or in moist plant pots because they help to keep the soil in good health. And yes, if you have them inside and they breed like mad, you will find them everywhere surrounding the immediate vicinity of the terrarium. I find them crawling up the walls around my cockroach tank quite frequently but they don't bother me anymore (it used to bug me quite a bit hehe). I try not to leave foodstuffs out and about because of it, mind. To be fair, my terrarium is on its side rather than stood up, so the springtails have quite an easy job getting out and roaming as it has a mesh lid and the stones are right next to it.