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title: Cleanup crew: terrarium basics | Glass Jar Garden
description: Tiny animals that keep a jar from rotting. Springtails eat mould before it spreads. Isopods (woodlice) eat dead leaves and rotting wood, turning them back...
url: https://glassjar.garden/guide/basics/cleanup-crew/
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Basics

# Cleanup crew

Tiny animals that keep a jar from rotting.

- Springtails eat mould before it spreads.
- Isopods (woodlice) eat dead leaves and rotting wood, turning them back into soil.
- They live off the jar: give them leaf litter and damp ground, never feed them much.

[Try it in a jar](https://glassjar.garden/?guide=basics/cleanup-crew)

[← Moss](https://glassjar.garden/guide/basics/moss/)