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- Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:16 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: No water in test tube and queen won't move.
- Replies: 3
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Re: No water in test tube and queen won't move.
You should never try to move a queen that has eggs and no workers. The queens almost never move their eggs into a new home. If they flee their nest due to heat or light they leave the eggs behind. It’s the workers who move eggs and larvae. Even if a queen grabs a mouthful of eggs she will almost cer...
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:28 am
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
Re: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
Yes I think there is lots of room in there.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:05 am
- Forum: Formicariums and Ant Setups
- Topic: Ytong nest with magnet-attached screen
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1767
Re: Ytong nest with magnet-attached screen
Tar Heel ants uses glass attached with magnets. There is no issue so I don’t see why plexiglass would be different.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:44 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: No eggs for months.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9980
Re: No eggs for months.
Well the last 5 out of 7 months were winter. Ants hibernate in the winter. Also if she hasn’t eaten for 7 months than feed her, especially if you didn’t allow her to go into diapause during her hibernation. That’s pretty obvious I think.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:22 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Worker acting strange carrying dead for days!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4638
Re: Worker acting strange carrying dead for days!
You’d think right? But I do it with my tetramorium and Lasius colonies and they just stay in their nest. Although I did have a camponotus colony move out of one of my formicams and into an empty formicarium on the other side of my desk that I was saving for a different species. I keep a lid on those...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:56 am
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
Re: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
You should make an Id request. I’m not sure.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:16 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Worker acting strange carrying dead for days!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4638
Re: Worker acting strange carrying dead for days!
The thing is in the wild they may walk 3,5,10,15 meters away to dump their dead. You can try extending the outworld. Usually they just start a dead pile not really where they want, but they have to put them somewhere. My colonies that don’t have lids the ants actually walk to the edge of the outworl...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Failing Colony
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1814
Re: Failing Colony
Just do what your doing but give her an insect from time to time now that she has no workers to forage for her. She will probably lay eggs soon.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:01 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Predator in the tank
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3503
Re: Predator in the tank
Most earwigs eat plants.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5163
Re: What ants should I put in my paludarium terrarium?
Cool set up. That is a queen you have.