Death by drowning?
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Death by drowning?
I caught a couple of queens last week and I went and took a peek today at their test tubes.
One of the queen seemed to have died.
The queen is curled up on the water end of the test tube. My guess is I might have dunked the cotton into the water too deep and she drowned. Another theory might have been that since she still had her wings when I caught her is that her wings might have gotten wet from the cotton and she got stuck and was not able to move.
Has anybody experienced this?
I guess my takeaway from this is that when prepping your test tube set up, make sure to not place the cotton on the water too deep to where the surface would feel like a really damp swamp for your queen ant. Cheers.
One of the queen seemed to have died.
The queen is curled up on the water end of the test tube. My guess is I might have dunked the cotton into the water too deep and she drowned. Another theory might have been that since she still had her wings when I caught her is that her wings might have gotten wet from the cotton and she got stuck and was not able to move.
Has anybody experienced this?
I guess my takeaway from this is that when prepping your test tube set up, make sure to not place the cotton on the water too deep to where the surface would feel like a really damp swamp for your queen ant. Cheers.
Re: Death by drowning?
She probably drowned. Sometimes ants will try to "dig" into the cotton, but you shouldn't leave any water above the cotton. But now you know that for next time !
Re: Death by drowning?
A couple times some of my queens wigs got stuck to the side of the test tube from the cotton being too wet and the died....
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i had this happen the other day i invertaly upset my homemade tube keeper and by the time i moved it back to the hozitail i had all 6 queens drowning i did save three of them and hoping they will live
if anyone want see home made tube keeper made from cardboard or my home made outworlds using my old containers from when i kept mantis let me know
if anyone want see home made tube keeper made from cardboard or my home made outworlds using my old containers from when i kept mantis let me know
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I'm curious to see that.GriffinAnt wrote:i had this happen the other day i invertaly upset my homemade tube keeper and by the time i moved it back to the hozitail i had all 6 queens drowning i did save three of them and hoping they will live
if anyone want see home made tube keeper made from cardboard or my home made outworlds using my old containers from when i kept mantis let me know
Re: Death by drowning?
Cool outworld.
I'm guessing there are test tubes inside those rolled up cardboards.
I'm guessing there are test tubes inside those rolled up cardboards.
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