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Newbies: Please Note Most ant keepers (including myself) disagree with this method. Ant queens are designed to survive, and thrive without food during the founding stages. It's how their bodies naturally work. No stress is crucial to proper development. They simply aren't designed to not mind having...

I have found that my tetramorium can easily cross over baby powder plus rubbing alcohol. However, they cannot cross over dry baby powder applied thinly with a dry cotton ball.

Hello, I'm SebrightLover. I'm currently awaiting nuptial flights as I decided to look into ant keeping right as the summer ended (my luck in a nutshell) I live in the Boise area and I raise chickens a lot (hence the name, a Sebright is my favorite breed of chickens, even though I've only ones two h...

We are goin to need pictures of the queens with measurments and locations in order to ID, and answer that question.

15 watt is the norm

no tetramorium and pheidole will both exceed their living space if fed ample amounts of food. Can you give me a link to the video with a time index?

Also! There is a thread for us Idahoans! Come join and introduce yourself

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The secret to barriers is not thickness, it's thinness. A thick baby powder is much easier to climb over than a thin one. Also I found that babypowder+ rubbing alcohol can be crossed easily by T. immigrans, but they cannot cross plain babypowder applied lightly with a dry cotton ball.

What did you keep them in? The fact they all died in a few days leads me to believe they were either exposed to something toxic or there wasn’t enough humidity in the set up you were keeping them in. It wasn’t from lack of food because a few days without food is not going to be a problem for ants. ...