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AntsCanada wrote:Happy hibernation! Remember to keep the fridge on its warmest setting and when removing them from hibernation for the first hour watch for flooding as the setup returns to room temperature.

Good luck and great work!

Ok, thanks for the advice Mikey!!

Stay awesome guys!

N.M

I tried to put them in my fridge over the night and it worked! Thanks guys!!

GriffinAnt wrote:my lasius niger queen and her one worker are in hybernation in my fridge at 5 deg. been in there 2 and half mths and she is a ok.

My fridge is at 4-5 deg celcius so i think that i actually will put them there. Thanks! Btw do you guys think that i can have my Lasius Flavus colony there aswell?

jonathan21700 wrote:Do you keep them in a cold place?

Well not really I'm a little frightend to place them in a pretty cold spot

Hello guys! Things have gone really good and really bad. I will start with the bad ones :cry: Lucia had 14 workers when i tried to unplugg her from the hybridnest since they never moved out of thier testtube. But it was pretty late and i was tired so when i tred to unplugg her i pulled it to hard so...

one of two ways of doing it: #1 Get a mid range rated one and then also get a temperature control that it can plug into that way you can adjust the temp to what you want. #2 Get a low rated one and then adjust the distance between the nest and the heating cable. When I have my snakes and other Herp...

SHE MIGHT NOT BE DEAD! She might be hibernating!

Hi guys!. I will just jump straight to the point. I am going to get a heatingcable to my hybridnest and i wonder how mouch watt the heatingcable should have. Feel free to answer and share your experience with me.

Nikola.M

Intresting... A solenopsis queen behaving like a parasitic queen. I'll do some research about this. Maybe it's a new thing that the solenopsis spiecies has evolved.

Nikola.M

Anyone? The same thing happens with my hybrid nest, I know if they don't like it they will move (mine moved into the out world for a few days until the humidity went down), best thing is don't put the test tubes right over the heat source. Put some distance between them and it. They only need a lit...