My Morulina springtail culture

[Biollantefan54]

I decided to start a new thread since u have one for my Vitronura giselae already, I don’t want to mix them up too much. Anywho, this week some eggs started hatching from my Morulina culture I’ve had for a few weeks. Apparently Morulina eggs take about the same time to hatch as it takes Vitronura giselae to go from egg to laying eggs! I was beginning to worry that keeping this giants would not be as easy as i hoped. Right when I thought that, they all started hatching. The baby Morulina are a gorgeous purple color that gets darker as they grow!
Some of the young Morulina (with some V. giselae I am slowly removing from this culture)

Two Morulina babies, one molt apart.
Juvenile Morulina that has gotten a lot darker.
And lastly an adult feeding on some slime mold.

 

[fcat]

Holy smokes, these are beautiful! Thank you for sharing these pictures. It's a shame there is so much beauty in nature invisible to the naked eye.

 

[Denn]

These are extraordinary. Your photography is amazing as always! Very beautiful. Planned to get some funky isopods again sometime soon, think these will be something I look into also. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[MetalRavioli]

My god those are gorgeous!! Excellent job with them they look so happy munching away!

 

[Biollantefan54]

Thank yall, I love watching them and all the babies are continuing to hatch. I went from around 15 to around 40 lol! Ill continue photographing them as they grow

 

[Biollantefan54]

I recently had my Morulina identified and I am keeping two separate species. The one I have posted previously is Morulina delicata, this is my other, Morulina callowayia

 

[Biollantefan54]

And my Morulina delicata

 

[Brewser]

Amazing !

 

[grndjmpr03]

So neat

 

[Biollantefan54]

Here is an image of my M. delicata eating some slime mold

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Who would think I’d love a pic of springtails eating slime mold, lol. Your images are quite striking and really magnify a beauty most would never chance to see.

 

[Biollantefan54]

Who would think I’d love a pic of springtails eating slime mold, lol. Your images are quite striking and really magnify a beauty most would never chance to see.

Thank you! It really is cool to see haha, not enough photos of these slime eaters haha
I took another image of an adult Morulina delicata as well as some eggs

 

[HOITrance]

Holy crap those are stunning!

 

[Arthroverts]

I recently had my Morulina identified and I am keeping two separate species. The one I have posted previously is Morulina delicata, this is my other, Morulina callowayia

Are there any problems with hybridization or do they occur sympatrically?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[Biollantefan54]

Are there any problems with hybridization or do they occur sympatrically?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

I am not positive but I don’t think they can hybridize. I found M. delicata and M. callowayia in the same place, there was way more M. callowayia but still clearly two distinct species in the same habitat and location. I think if they could hybridize, there would be a weird hybrid I’d see or just one species would be present. I don’t know though but my uneducated answer is I doubt it lol

 

[Tentacle Toast]

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"

 

[Biollantefan54]

Some more shots of the Morulina delicata culture today