Dear forum members,
My name is Max Groenendijk and in a few weeks i wil start living on my own. so i can finally start my own ant colony.
I have watched a lot of ant canadas videos and have been reading a lot about ants and how to take care of them.
I wil be living in finland. there is no gen farm there but there is a animal store that sells ants.
Camponotus japonicus
Lasius flavus/niger
Messor aciculatus/barbarus
My question is 1 which one is the most for and the most recommended for beginners.
2 why do you need to keep the nest in the dark? (most) ants have bad sight? and is this really necessary can you also keep your ant nest not covert so you can enjoy them more?
Best regard,
Max Groenendijk
ant beginner.
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Re: ant beginner.
welcome max.
to answer your questions i use red acitate flim rolled into a tube and slide over the tubes to keep queens in the dark as Ants can not see the red spetrum it just looks black to them.
as for begingner Ant i recomemd Lasius niger.
to answer your questions i use red acitate flim rolled into a tube and slide over the tubes to keep queens in the dark as Ants can not see the red spetrum it just looks black to them.
as for begingner Ant i recomemd Lasius niger.
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Re: ant beginner.
Yup, I'm raising two L. Niger colonies and one L. Flavus and i find the L. Niger colonies easier to raise. For example: The L.Niger colonies are way more successful than the L.Flavus colony + that the L.Flavus are subterranean wich means that they hunt underground.
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Re: ant beginner.
Woah, how does underground hunting work?NikolaMladenovic wrote:Yup, I'm raising two L. Niger colonies and one L. Flavus and i find the L. Niger colonies easier to raise. For example: The L.Niger colonies are way more successful than the L.Flavus colony + that the L.Flavus are subterranean wich means that they hunt underground.
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Re: ant beginner.
Well, sometimes it happens that a worm might dig into their nest causing the ants to kill it and eat it. And when that dosen't happen they dig until they find other insects that live underground.WillWithAnts wrote:Woah, how does underground hunting work?NikolaMladenovic wrote:Yup, I'm raising two L. Niger colonies and one L. Flavus and i find the L. Niger colonies easier to raise. For example: The L.Niger colonies are way more successful than the L.Flavus colony + that the L.Flavus are subterranean wich means that they hunt underground.
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