Help unsafe amount of mold in testube

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antsofthelowcountry
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Help unsafe amount of mold in testube

Post: # 47016Post antsofthelowcountry
Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:03 pm

What is the best and safest way to transfer this queen and her brood? About 80-90% of the cotton is covered in mold.
As always, wishing you well on your exciting ant adventure, Ants the Lowcountry.

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idahoantgirl
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Re: Help unsafe amount of mold in testube

Post: # 47096Post idahoantgirl
Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:51 am

1 attach new tube and old tube together with tape
2 prick small air holes in tape
3 make sure they can't get stuck in tape
4 make new tube dark and old tube light
5 set the setup on an incline so that the new tube is lower than the old one (like set it half on a book)
5 shine a light (if needed) on the old tube, but be careful you don't fry them

they will move themselves. Never move your queens manually
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile

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