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Baltimore410Keeper

Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19198Post Baltimore410Keeper
Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:51 pm

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 ^.^

jwatson16202

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19199Post jwatson16202
Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:53 pm

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 :P

I didn't like it so i ditched it and used cotton instead

Baltimore410Keeper

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19214Post Baltimore410Keeper
Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:45 pm

Ohhhhh OK thanks for the reply ... Yea I too like cotton and have enough of it around :-)

jwatson16202

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19218Post jwatson16202
Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:04 pm

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? :P

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Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19254Post idahoantgirl
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pm

am i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest? :lol:
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

Cale3459

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19264Post Cale3459
Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pm

idahoantgirl wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pm
am i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest? :lol:
Probably :lol: 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.

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Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19307Post idahoantgirl
Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:13 am

Cale3459 wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pm
idahoantgirl wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pm
am i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest? :lol:
Probably :lol: 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.
Yeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.
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

Cale3459

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19313Post Cale3459
Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:06 pm

idahoantgirl wrote:
Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:13 am
Cale3459 wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pm
idahoantgirl wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:06 pm
am i the only one who uses folded up paper towels and toilet paper as a hydration medium in my hybrid nest? :lol:
Probably :lol: 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.
Yeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.
I use cotton balls exclusively. I just shred them really good first.

Baltimore410Keeper

Re: Question about "All you need package"

Post: # 19315Post Baltimore410Keeper
Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:18 pm

Cale3459 wrote:
Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:06 pm
idahoantgirl wrote:
Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:13 am
Cale3459 wrote:
Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:48 pm


Probably :lol: 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.
Yeah. I would use cotton except I currently only have cotton balls witch is harder to make lay flat in the hydration basin.
I use cotton balls exclusively. I just shred them really good first.
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 lol

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