I appreciate everyone’s response
I’m hopeful these are friendly.
I’ve not changed anything in the tent in at least 5 months. All the same everything. I’ve also been home for 18 days on holidays, so it can’t be from outside via me. but these are actually bigger then the usual micro bugs and micro worms I see all the time. These are slow moving and don’t jump… took them a few hours to move from the other side of the party cup kinda slow.
I would just take an eye to the seedling evolution, it will tell you if they are friends or foes, time will come then to take the right decisions, but that’s another story …
Those are most likely decomposer mites - maybe orabatid mites. There’s too many of them clumped together for H. Miles (now called stratiolaelaps scimitus). With that said, there are too many of them which makes me think you have something going on in your soil. Maybe a little wet, too many un-composted amendments, etc.
I would get these in my small worm bin when I added too much organic matter with perhaps a little too much moisture. I could not remember orabatid, the name. I would have a bloom in Hypoaspis population it seemed, as the orabatid dropped in numbers.