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Springtails are tiny (less than half a centimeter!) and make a great supplimental food for poison dart frogs and small toads. You can also seed your vivarium with springtails and the springtails will reproduce in the tank - they serve as an additional food source, and help to keep your vivariums clean, as well. The temperate variety of springtails culture faster than tropical springtail cultures, but temperate springtails prefer cooler temperatures.

Feed temperate springtails uncooked white rice. The temperate springtails will consume the mold that grows on the rice. Cultures of temperate springtails can last years. Josh's Frogs recommends that you buy a culture of temperate springtails and use it start a larger culture of temperate springtails (I use 5 qt. sterilite containers - ie shoebox size). Larger cultures of tropical springtails produce better and are less prone to CO2 buildup. Charcoal is a great substrate for culturing temperate springtails.

Please read the following article on:

HOW TO CULTURE SPRINGTAILS

How to Instructions: Part I

How to Instructions: Part II

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Always Quality Review by Trent

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I have ordered these as well as the larger springtails and both have lasted for Months and Months if cared for. (easy) Oh, and my frogs absolutely love them.
Thanks Josh's (Posted on 1/2/12)

Fast shipping Review by Keith

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I ordered the least expensive shipping available for these, and they arrived the very next day! I use to control mold in my crested gecko terrarium and they work great. (Posted on 4/21/11)

Untitled Review by Huss Tanner

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I had a culture of these mailed to me (nearly 2000 miles away from Josh's Frogs HQ) and it arrived with enough living springtails to seed both my 18" cube tank and a 12" cube quarantine tank that is now doubling as a larger container for my springtail culture as the instructions on the culture suggest. Every week or so, I have added a few grains of generic brand white rice to each terrarium, and after about a month of having these guys, I have seen over a hundred springtails exposed in the open air between the two tanks (which leads me to believe that there must be at least that many hiding in the substrate still). I don't have any froglets to feed them too, but considering their size, I can see how they (the springtails) would be a perfect staple for the froglet diet (especially thumbnails). These guys also serve as great microflora control as I have seen the white mold on a piece of wood that I placed in my quarantine tank recede. They are hardy scavengers that you don't need to coddle. The price is worth the investment to have feeding security in your tank if your fruit fly cultures fail temporarily for one reason or another. Thanks Josh's Frogs!

P.S. my first culture didn't survive and Josh's Frogs reimbursed me for the full amount of the culture: just another tribute to their famous customer service! (Posted on 3/18/11)