1. Colours vary from white, grey, yellow, orange, metallic green, lavender to red with some being patterned or mottled.
2. They get their name from the ability to catapult themselves (leap) through the air three to four inches by means of a tail like mechanism (furcula) tucked under the abdomen.
3. When disturbed, this appendage functions as a spring, propelling them into the air away from the danger source.
4. Young resemble adults except for size and colour.
5. Eggs are spherical.
6. They are chiefly soil and/or litter dwellers, and live off the fungi that decompose organic matter.
7. Although they can be very abundant in soil in the outdoors and household plants they are seldom noticed because of their small size. 

Their size makes them an excellent food source for newly morphed dart frogs and the small arboreal species. Froglets may not be able to handle fruit flies because of their size, so having this food source handy can assure the survival of your new froglets. 

Temperature Range:

Make sure to place the culture in a cooler place 65° - 75° F. (18° - 24° C). Springtails do not like it too warm.

METHOD 1:

What you'll need:
microwaveable container
plastic shoe box i.e. Tupperware® container with an airtight lid
distilled water
soil or dirt mix (see notes)
fern tree block (optional)
food items: baker's yeast, vegetable scraps (romaine lettuce), or fish flakes
starter culture

What you'll do:
First take some soil or dirt mix and place it in the container.
Cover the soil/dirt mix with water and allow hydrate for about 5 minutes.
Then drain the water off and microwave the soil/dirt mix until hot.
After the soil has cooled, place approximately 1 inch of the soil in plastic shoebox and arrange the mix that some areas have some elevation and some areas have a depression.
Water until there are some low points of pooling water appears.
Now introduce the starter culture.
Add flaked fish food to the culture and mist with water to insure the food is moist.
When feeding, you can place a generous piece of lettuce.
When using yeast or fish flakes, only put a "pinch" because too much can spoil the entire culture.
Do not worry if fungus is seen in the culture, as the springtails will feed off of it.
Please note that new cultures need to be set-up approximately once a month, keep 2 - 4 going when you have froglets also temperatures above 80 degrees will greatly reduce productions.

METHOD 2
Dirk Ercken (Posted on Frognet)

What you'll need:
microwavable container
plastic shoe box i.e. Tupperware® container with an airtight lid
distilled water
old or rotting pine needles
wooden toothpick
fern tree block (optional)
food items: baker's yeast, vegetable scraps (romaine lettuce), or fish flakes
starter culture

What you'll do:
Take some half-decayed pine needles (fresh ones contain to much resin and the springtails will die if you use them).
Place the pine needles in the microwave until they are hot, this will kill off any other organisms and possible predators will be eliminated.
Let the pine needles cool off and then place them into your culture container.
Now place some springtails in a cup of water and let them jump around for a while (this will remove most of the mites that are crawling around on them).
Use the toothpick to lift the springtails out of the water, just place the toothpick upright in the water and as you lift it out the springtails will climb on.
Put the toothpick with the springtails in the closed culture container, so the springtails can't escape.
In the first month don't have to feed the springtails, all the food they need is on the needles.
Open the container regularly to ensure they get fresh air, especially in the first week when the needles still give off some resin fumes.
From the second month start to feed them fish flakes.
In the beginning feed every other day and after a while feed every day

METHOD 3
Swedish charcoal method

To Feed:

1. You may add a small tree fern block. Springtails like to go into this and you can a finger to tap them out of this block into the frog tank.
2. Collect the springtails from the "depression areas" in the culture where the water collected. Just use a spoon and scoop them out this way.
3. Simply scoop some of the peat moss and place it in their viviarium and the frogs will soon see the white, jumping grub. If your viviarium is on the humid side, springtails will establish themselves, so you'll have an endless supply of food for your frogs.

HouseKeeping:

Cultures crashes are almost always due to the presence of mites. So you want to keep your springtail cultures away from your fruit fly cultures. Fruit flies always contain mites, and when the temperature rises they can cause a crash of the fruit fly cultures as well. It assumed that the mites eat the springtails eggs.