Springtails Bioactive Cultures
Springtails Bioactive Cultures
Part of building a functioning terrarium ecosystem is replicating the natural processes and cycles that keeps our woodlands and rain-forests alive.
Being able to decompose dead organic matter – and processing it to become available nutrients for your live plants – is part of being a truly self-sustaining terrarium.
The term for such a thing is a bioactive terrarium.
What makes this possible is the microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) and the microfauna (insects and bugs) that are able to help the decomposition process along.
Springtails are the perfect compromise for someone who wants the mould-fighting, terrarium cleaning dream team – without giant bugs crawling all over the place.
These tiny critters are only 1/16″ at full size, and they’re really more jumpers than they are crawlers (hence the name).
Springtails Bioactive Cultures
Part of building a functioning terrarium ecosystem is replicating the natural processes and cycles that keeps our woodlands and rain-forests alive.
Being able to decompose dead organic matter – and processing it to become available nutrients for your live plants – is part of being a truly self-sustaining terrarium.
The term for such a thing is a bioactive terrarium.
What makes this possible is the microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) and the microfauna (insects and bugs) that are able to help the decomposition process along.
Springtails are the perfect compromise for someone who wants the mould-fighting, terrarium cleaning dream team – without giant bugs crawling all over the place.
These tiny critters are only 1/16″ at full size, and they’re really more jumpers than they are crawlers (hence the name).
