Question about "All you need package"
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Question about "All you need package"
So I got my all you need package in the other day .... i'm trying to figure out what the ziplock bag full of white ball looking stuff is ........
Thanks ^.^
Thanks ^.^
Re: Question about "All you need package"
It's perlite - used as a hydration medium.
Or at least I think it is, seemed the right volume to fill the hydration chamber of the hybrid nest anyway
I didn't like it so i ditched it and used cotton instead
Or at least I think it is, seemed the right volume to fill the hydration chamber of the hybrid nest anyway
I didn't like it so i ditched it and used cotton instead
Re: Question about "All you need package"
Ohhhhh OK thanks for the reply ... Yea I too like cotton and have enough of it around
Re: Question about "All you need package"
I found that my Lasius niger ants preferred the cotton too
when using the perlite they ignored the mesh chambers, but when I switched to cotton within a day or so they had dumped a load of sand in one of the chambers and moved the brood in.
the cotton probably presses up against the mesh better i guess?
when using the perlite they ignored the mesh chambers, but when I switched to cotton within a day or so they had dumped a load of sand in one of the chambers and moved the brood in.
the cotton probably presses up against the mesh better i guess?
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Re: Question about "All you need package"
am i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest?
Proverbs 6:6-8
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
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
Re: Question about "All you need package"
Probably actually I use the cotton because I have it readily available due to using it to plug ports or applying fluon. It's something versatile that I can use for multiple functions in ant keeping.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pmam i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest?
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Re: Question about "All you need package"
Yeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.Cale3459 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pmProbably actually I use the cotton because I have it readily available due to using it to plug ports or applying fluon. It's something versatile that I can use for multiple functions in ant keeping.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pmam i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest?
Proverbs 6:6-8
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
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
Re: Question about "All you need package"
I use cotton balls exclusively. I just shred them really good first.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:13 amYeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.Cale3459 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pmProbably actually I use the cotton because I have it readily available due to using it to plug ports or applying fluon. It's something versatile that I can use for multiple functions in ant keeping.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pmam i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest?
Re: Question about "All you need package"
Yea definitely have a lot of cotton lol .... I just spread it up like he does ...... haven't needed to really use anything bigger then the test tube portal yet lol so we shall see once I get to that point lolCale3459 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:06 pmI use cotton balls exclusively. I just shred them really good first.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:13 amYeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.
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