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I'm not too knowledgeable about the reed frogs regarding being poisonous but many frogs either collect or synthesize their toxins from alkaloids found in ants. Poison dart frogs for instance lose their toxicity in captivity when fed other insects but will start produce toxins again if their diet per...

If you have a thermometer with a separate sensor you could test out the setup with the heating pad on an empty tube and see how hot it gets and maybe play around with raising/lowering the tube (or with the thermostat if you have one) to reach the optimal temp?

My first post so first of all, Hi! I have two colonies of Lasius niger from queens I caught this summer. My first ever colonies. One of them has about 7-8 workers at the moment. I have a question about their behavior though. Both the queen and the workers are kind of just sitting there, barely movin...