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Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:10 pm
by TMoneyAnts
My camponotus queen who has a few workers and around 12 eggs keeps ripping into the cotton in her tube and piling it through the tube even though she is in a tub tube set up. It’s making a mess and makes me worry about the eggs what should I do?
Re: Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:14 pm
by AM1C39
If you are worried about it you can try to get ride of the extra cotton she has pulled out.
Re: Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:16 pm
by TMoneyAnts
Except she keeps pulling at it... I’m worried about stressing her and her eating the eggs.. any ideals how I’d go about it? I tried placing another tube set up in the tub and covering it to entice them to move but they didn’t
Re: Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:32 am
by AM1C39
Is she ripping the water cotton? If she is not she should be fine, she is just doing a little redecorating. If she is pulling at the water cotton having another test tube beside her is a good idea.
Re: Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:33 pm
by TMoneyAnts
Yes it is the water cotton
Re: Help Ripping up cotton
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:58 pm
by Jager89
TMoneyAnts wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:33 pm
Yes it is the water cotton
im having a some what similar issue with my winter ants one of my queens keeps pulling at the top of the cotton to form ledges in it, worried she might cause a water leak, so i was starting to consider placing the test tube on an angle.