Freezer or fridge, moving ants to a new home

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Seiyaryu
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Freezer or fridge, moving ants to a new home

Post: # 39536Post Seiyaryu
Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:59 am

I'm getting read to move my ants into a new formicarium and I don't want to shock them when I make an opening in the old one. Do I want to stick the old one in the freezer or fridge? And for how long to I want to keep them in there in order to make them hybernate?

Also, I'm pretty sure the species is solenopsis molesta, if that makes any difference.

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Batspiderfish
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Re: Freezer or fridge, moving ants to a new home

Post: # 39539Post Batspiderfish
Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:18 am

Why would you have to open it? Why not connect it with tubes?
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Re: Freezer or fridge, moving ants to a new home

Post: # 39543Post Seiyaryu
Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:41 am

It's one of the gel farms. I didn't know any better when I started and now it looks like mold is forming. The only thing I can think of is drilling a hole in the side and taping a test tube to it so I can relocate them.

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Re: Freezer or fridge, moving ants to a new home

Post: # 39559Post Batspiderfish
Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:50 am

You can also open the nest in a foraging space and let them move into their nest that way.
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