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Hello everyone. I have a colony of Polyrhachis dives with about 30-40 workers. They are in a test tube setup for now and was wondering if I should move them soon. It doesn't seem too overcrowded but a lot of them have been pulling on the cotton. What size of container would be good for such a colony...

First of all thank you for the replies. Secondly you did just tell me what I was kind of already thinking just wasn't sure. The one who laid eggs but never developed might have been infertile because in the two and half months I never saw anything more than eggs. The one with the workers might have ...

Yeah I know that stressing them can cause this. But I was super careful with the most recent one that I caught. After I caught the queen I put her away from any kind of disturbances in a separate box and probably the first time I check on here was after a month and that was just through the gap in t...

All of them have been kept in standard test tubes setups. And I keeps the tubes in a cardboard box with the lid slightly open for air circulation just in case.

Whats your point? And they actually take 8 weeks from egg to worker.

Hello. So I'm having trouble with camponotus ants. I'v had 4 camponotus queens. Three herculeanus and one ligniperdus. And all of them have either died or are having problems. My most recent one that I caught late may, iirc, had a huge amount of brood, but none of it ever developed any further than ...

Thank you for the reply. Don't really care about Camponotus one just wanted to know what the other one was.
So I guess there is no point in keeping the Formica one? Is there? No idea if I would be able to find Formica pupae.

I'm from Latvia, a country in the north east of Europe. Today on the 13th of June I went to a forest to look for camponotus ants. Although I saw lots and lots of workers only managed to capture one camponotus herculeanus (I think) queen and one other that I have not seen before. I would really appre...

I wouldn't worry too much, the amount of mold in that test tubes is not a lot, but if you really want to take care of your queens and have the highest success rate then I would move the queen to a clean test tube, just like SomeRandomAnt said. Also if possible use bottled water so there's a smaller ...

First time hearing that harvester ants cant be raised in a test tube. I had 2 messor barbarus queens both in test tubes. The one that I moved to proper nest is the one that died unfortunately but the other one I kept in the test tube and shes doing fine, pumping out brood like a champ.