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I love the design and the look but just some questions 1. is the green thing the pipes are going into a water pump? 2. is that piece of glass or acrylic over the middle supposed to be a bridge? 3 how will the two aquariums be connected? 4 is the sand under the pipes supposed to have no water or is i...

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Butter? That's a new one. What are you giving them for sugar? I don't think butter has much nutritional value for ants. I've seen Solenopsis molesta feeding on grease in the wild (that is, in my kitchen :o :lol: ) They lick grease off empty plates that haven't been thrown away yet, and pretty much ...

Update!! starting with the sad news i had to release the legionnaires because i found out that they are sadly infertile and with them i released the lobster backs. But on a happy note the red dragons have 15 workers!! with 1 pupae 2 large larvae and about 15 larvae. I think that the larvae can make ...

Update!! So all of my colonies are growing fast but first i sadly say that i released the gi-ant queen. other than that both of my c. pennsylvanicus queens are doing great. the Saxons have slowly grown to about 10 workers and have 2 pupae. i don't know about other brood because recently they moved i...

Update!! so their set-up got tossed on to the floor by my little brother and all the dirt and everything got into the carpet. luckily the ants did nothing they just stayed in their test tube like nothing happened which is weird because this species is know for panicking is situations like that. any ...

i would definitely feed her if she is semi claustral as for leaves i think you would have to have a live tree if you want them to nest in leaves. just try a test tube.

well i have read a journal about these cool ants and i know that they first get about 50-100 workers in the first brood pile. Next you have to feed them a lot and give them a good home so the queen can lay more eggs because the new workers should die off pretty quickly and you will need more. again ...

i am currently keeping a tapinoma sessile colony. its smaller though with about 30 workers and 1 queen. Really i would think it would be a great idea for a paludarium for these ants. mine have some difficulty's like all colonies, such as trying to get the queen to lay more brood and the ants being p...

i have another test tube attached and the colony always has at least 1 worker in it. so i guess that's a good sign