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Cultured or wild springtails?

Started By Ameise , Jul 30 2017 9:57 AM

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#1 Offline Ameise - Posted July 30 2017 - 9:57 AM

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I want to put some springtails into my wooden formicaria, but I'm unsure where to get them from. As far as I know, I can either buy a 'temperate' culture from one of the sites that sells them for exotic pets (they often also sell 'dwarf isopods', which I have no knowledge of) where the cultures run $15-20, or I could try to extract some from outside in the soil and breed them. What is the best choice, in this case? I'm curious what other people have done.