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so basicly i have my first ant worker should i present them there outworld or should i wait for more ant workers?

I would start making a small outworld for them.

AntFeeder101 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:03 am

so basicly i have my first ant worker should i present them there outworld or should i wait for more ant workers?

If your talking about the first brood (first ant from a queen that has laid eggs) then no leave them in the test tube until you get any where from 10-20 of them. They will need that number to support the queen with the other eggs and then also forage for food when you connect an out world at that point.

No a outworld is not necessary until they have 5 workers at the very minimum if given a outworld any earlier it stresses out the colony as they like small spaces.

MadVampy wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:38 pm

AntFeeder101 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:03 am

so basicly i have my first ant worker should i present them there outworld or should i wait for more ant workers?

If your talking about the first brood (first ant from a queen that has laid eggs) then no leave them in the test tube until you get any where from 10-20 of them. They will need that number to support the queen with the other eggs and then also forage for food when you connect an out world at that point.

In the wild, they have access to the outside world at all times. Doesn't it make sense to provide an outworld when the first worker arrives with a straw acting as a tunnel between tube and outworld? I'm not talking connecting it to the outworld, i mean placing the tube in the outworld as seen here
http://www.formiculture.com/topic/4167-welcome-to-lazy-tube-serafines-camponotus-barbaricus/

I see no issue at all providing them with a "Feeding Tube", I in fact using something I I made that has a screen for air, connect two tubes together. Basically their water tube and then a tube I use to put food into, that way I can change it out with other food or in the case of their water supply running out I can attach a fresh water tube and migrate them to it.