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Acutus3399 wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2019 9:54 am

Only since 4/23 so I'm very new to this. You can see the colony in my post Here:

https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=14160

Sorry for the late response.
I've never seen a Camponotus colony that big! Wow! It must be challenging for a beginner, but good luck!

That is a really good design idea! May try something like this too. Most of my ants are in AC setups so I may add the heat cable to them and try this with the smaller colonies. :D I'm glad you like it. It will surely make a difference for their growth rate. :) Oh and BTW I have a pretty big C.chrom...

WillWithAnts wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 4:10 pm

Wow, that is a cool design!

Thanks!

WillWithAnts wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 4:29 pm

Also, do you have a journal? I want to see more of this.

I don't unfortunately, I'm currently too busy with my upcoming university exams.
But still, if you'd like to know anything about my colonies feel free to ask.

Exactly, it took me a while to improve it, but it works greatly now. ;) I also tested it on my Camponotus and Pheidole and they loved it! It's been just a month and the Camponotus from 8 workers have now reached about 13/14 of them... amazing!! :D Another great thing about using tubes is that you ca...

Yes, the heat mat is designed for plant germination and has a power of 17.5W. I've a thermometer pretty close to it, right where the silicon tube is, and it measures 31-33°C. The heat mat doesn't directly touch the tube and it's placed above it. Here's a sketch of the entire setup. https://i.imgur.c...

Ahahaha I swear, if not 400 there are surely around 350 of them. I did hibernate all of them and they came out of it late February. As far as heating yes, I provided a low powered germination heat mat for both the colonies, but here's the possible difference. What I like to do, when introducing a co...

Hi everyone, it has been a year since I started ant keeping, and I managed to grow many colonies. I started off last year, in May, with a Messor Barbarus colony that counted just a few workers... now there'll be about 400 of them :D At first it was easy to feed them (proteins) from time to time, sin...

I think it might be a Lasius niger queen, but im not sure. PS: sry if im posting this wrong somehow, im new to this forum. Don't worry, you posted correctly. Oh, and welcome to the forum! ;) But be careful, Lasius Niger is more of a european species, and the queens look like this https://www.antski...

All good. It was alive yesterday but I’m trying to leave it alone so it doesn’t get stressed out. I’ve been doing some research and I believe it is a Solenopsis xyloni queen. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong I'm not an expert in IDing, but: 1) That surely is a queen (males usually have a poin...

Hunter36o wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:13 am

Ah my mistake, I took it up as you sealed it completely. Apologies for that. In that case the tape method is perfect.

You don't have to apologize, I'm thankful you brought that up, otherwise I would have missed the detail!