How do you prepare ant food?
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How do you prepare ant food?
I'm just getting to the stage that my colony has developed bout 10 workers and I want to know how to prepare their prey insects since their is no video on Mikey's channel.
Re: How do you prepare ant food?
I pre kill all my feeder insects before I put them in to the outworld. This ensures they don't trash around once the anys start feeding in them, since it might harm the ants if the feeder insect is bigger than the ants. Also if the colony is small in size or number I also cut the insect in half so the ants have easier access to the juicy parts.
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Re: How do you prepare ant food?
Sticking feeder insects in the freezer does the trick.
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Re: How do you prepare ant food?
Everyone else already said it but yup, Freezing works best. For new colonies, if you freeze a cricket, the legs pretty much snap right off and you can use those very easily.
I also cut a small piece of aluminum foil to to put the food on and slide it into the test tubes using tweezers. It makes for much easier cleaning afterwards.
I also cut a small piece of aluminum foil to to put the food on and slide it into the test tubes using tweezers. It makes for much easier cleaning afterwards.
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Re: How do you prepare ant food?
I use bottlecaps as feeding dishes
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: How do you prepare ant food?
That usually works. Sometimes I get something like a piece of wood, and stick the food in using some sort of pin to hold them in place.
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