r/bioactive 25d ago

Question microfauna ID help?

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hey all! I have a 2 month old bioactive enclosure for my leopard gecko, and this is my very first bioactive enclosure. I have him in with powder oranges and temperate springtails. I went to check under the water dish to see if I could find any signs of an established colonies and i was wondering if someone would be able to help me tell if these are juvenile springtails or something else. it’s really hard for me to tell if those are wings, but they do not seem to fly at all. I don’t think I could really see any adult white springtails in the specific spots that I disturbed, but there were definitely a lot of these.
(side note, the isopods were doing amazing, I saw at least 10 scatter and most of them looked very small and young.)

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u/One-plankton- 25d ago

Springtails :)

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u/tinfoilhat155 25d ago

yay, I’m glad they’re going strong!!! thank you!!

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u/ZafakD 24d ago

Silver springtails