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by Hawkeye
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:03 pm
Forum: Formicariums and Ant Setups
Topic: First formicarium
Replies: 3
Views: 5633

Re: First formicarium

there is a glue that you can use to contruct your terrarium. It forms a 'weld' for lack of a better word between the panes as it chemically binds them together. I have constructed a temporary setup from thin plexiglass myself and my ants didn't bother with the silicone at all I'm also thinking abou...
by Hawkeye
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:01 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

Hi I'm planing an upgrade of my outworld for my componotus ligniperdus and would love some tips and advises. plan is to build cube 20x20x20cm with ventilation in top cover and in build lake(water reservoir). I wanna build desert diorama from WW2 with some older models of tanks (1:72) and probably i...
by Hawkeye
Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:22 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

Hello all, I am new to ant keeping and to the forum. This season I was lucky enough to find my first black carpenter ant queen. I have her in a test tube set up. She had 3 nenantics when I checked on her this past Monday, but by Wednesday all 3 had died. The queen seems to be OK, still has a 4 eggs...
by Hawkeye
Wed Sep 09, 2020 4:27 am
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

Hello all, I am new to ant keeping and to the forum. This season I was lucky enough to find my first black carpenter ant queen. I have her in a test tube set up. She had 3 nenantics when I checked on her this past Monday, but by Wednesday all 3 had died. The queen seems to be OK, still has a 4 eggs...
by Hawkeye
Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:05 am
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

Hey guys! So I got a Camponotus Vicinus queen about 15 days ago, any care tips for founding stage? I’ve checked on her twice since and always used a red flashlight (like those candy lollipop things I just use it’s red light).She hasn’t laid eggs yet even though when I got her I gave her a bit of ho...
by Hawkeye
Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:58 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

How is everyone and your colonies doing? My Camponotus vagus is growing steadilly by the looks of it. Well I assume they are that is, as they decided to dig into the shallow ground of the arena I made for them... For ages there was only one lonely ant worker foraging around on the surface every once...
by Hawkeye
Mon Aug 31, 2020 2:04 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Zagreb/Croatia/June
Replies: 3
Views: 2349

Re: Zagreb/Croatia/June

Hey there! Sorry for the late reply... The picture you sent matched her look and yes she is around 2cm, I've looked around the internet to see how the worker ants looked and they too match! My apologies for the quality of the pictures, I wish I had a better camera. You saved me the trouble of looki...
by Hawkeye
Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:05 am
Forum: ACAF Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion to Change the GAN location Limits
Replies: 10
Views: 10587

Re: Suggestion to Change the GAN location Limits

CabboAntsGuy wrote:
Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:58 am
Like This Lol :lol:
The little water drop next to the word normal up top.
Hahahaha never saw that somehow!
by Hawkeye
Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:04 am
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Naming Time!!!
Replies: 7
Views: 3750

Re: Naming Time!!!

ArizonanAnts wrote:
Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:05 am
Well ant keeping friends, the poll has ended and the winner is Scarlet Shephard.

This name was suggested by Hawkeye.

Thank you Hawkeye. Although we don't know eachother personally, I feel like we are friends. Thank you for the support!!

Take care,

-ArizonanAnts
Better yet! We're crewmates!
by Hawkeye
Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:03 am
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!
Replies: 1683
Views: 991719

Re: Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

hi all, ive been wondering about this particular behaviour of my camponotus albosparsus so i hope someone can shed some light on it. whenever i give them any sweet liquids, be it honey, maple syrup, sugar water in a tiny bowl... they always almost immediately start dumping their waste into it. in a...