Little white bugs ... r they harmful

[Egyptian tortoise momma18]

Been noticing these little white bugs in the water dish of my Egyptians enclosure , they jump can’t find any on tortoise but concerned are they harmful to my baby ? Help please !!!

 

[Chubbs the tegu]

No worries. Harmless pill bugs. They eat up all the waste that u might have missed( so its a nice problem to have) lol

 

[Maro2Bear]

Greetings. None of these little flighty bugs in our enclosures are really harmful to the tortoises. Gnats, springtails. fruit flies all pretty much thrive on the warm, damp substrate coupled with tort feces and food bits. Almost heaven for buggies. The trick is to spot clean waste, fecal material, dead plants if you have. Periodically remove some substrate and replace with fresh substrate. You can add red wriggler worms and/or rolly pollys (pill bugs).