r/InvertPets • u/Sneewichen • 15d ago

Is there such a thing as too many springtails?

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u/turbofungeas 15d ago

Do you feel like a god, and these are your people?

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u/Sneewichen 15d ago

This made me cackle ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/AD_possum 15d ago

Wait is that a lot? Is that not normal?? I have a 40 gallon tank like this ๐Ÿ˜… completely on accident

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u/TootingGoomba 15d ago

Oh my God im drooling over this. I have a few but dayuummm. What do you give them? Viagra powder???

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u/Sneewichen 15d ago

They go batshit crazy for the cat food I put in there for the discoids!

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u/owo1215 14d ago

basically whenever i drop some shrimp food in the population got a boom, they sort the population out themselves, springtail really self regulate

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u/South_Protection9198 15d ago

Tell us your secrets!!!

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u/Tarantula_Delta I touch spiders แ•ฆ(รฒ_รณห‡)แ•ค 14d ago

Leave some for the rest of us holy crumbs

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u/Sneewichen 14d ago

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Iโ€™ve got plenty to go around!

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u/NeonPearl2025 14d ago

No ๐Ÿ˜Œ

(I never had them overpopulate to the point they don't like it)

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u/Higuysimj 14d ago

Teach me your ways!!! Ive failes twice in my iso enclosure!

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u/SauerPatch646 13d ago

Is this not a normal amount of springtails? All my enclosures have this many