Help With Moving P.Texana Colony.

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PTasker15
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Help With Moving P.Texana Colony.

Post: # 32219Post PTasker15
Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:06 pm

Have A Mature Pheidole Texana Colony With About 47 Workers,And Majors.In Trying To Move Them In A Formicarium...But They Won't Get Out Of Their Dirt Test Tube...I've Left Their Dirt Nest Disturbed And Sitting...For A Week.They Stayed In Their Nest.I've Tried Everything From Light To Deprivation.I Need Help!
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32220Post Phoenix
Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:04 pm

Let Them Move When They Want To, Forcing Won't Help.
'Have Fun.' - Gabe Newell

PTasker15
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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32276Post PTasker15
Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:45 pm

Phoenix wrote:
Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:04 pm
Let Them Move When They Want To, Forcing Won't Help.
I Guess...
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32333Post PTasker15
Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:29 pm

PTasker15 wrote:
Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:45 pm
Phoenix wrote:
Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:04 pm
Let Them Move When They Want To, Forcing Won't Help.
I Guess...

Ummm...A Problem-They're Straving And I'm Unable To Feed Them Unless They Move Into The Formicarium.
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

PTasker15
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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32453Post PTasker15
Wed Oct 18, 2017 12:13 pm

Phoenix wrote:
Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:04 pm
Let Them Move When They Want To, Forcing Won't Help.
They Officially Died Today.Left Then Alone...But All Left Is A Test Tube With Eggs And No Ants In Formicarium.
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32454Post Phoenix
Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:07 pm

No Corpses Means They Escaped, Not Dead.
'Have Fun.' - Gabe Newell

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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32481Post PTasker15
Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:11 pm

Phoenix wrote:
Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:07 pm
No Corpses Means They Escaped, Not Dead.
Although,There Are Holes And Brood In The Dirt.Everyday I Come Back More Holes
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

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Re: Inquiry

Post: # 32490Post Phoenix
Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:46 pm

Do You Dirt / Soil Inside The Out-World?
One That's Free-Moving?
'Have Fun.' - Gabe Newell

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Re: Help With Moving P.Texana Colony.

Post: # 32551Post PTasker15
Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:07 pm

Yes.
Keeping ants for 6 years now.

Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax

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