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cheetawolf
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drowning

Post: # 47652Post cheetawolf
Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:10 pm

i guess i put too big of a drop of honey in my tetramorium queens test tube, and 2 nanatics of 3 drowned, any chance they could still be alive?
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Re: drowning

Post: # 47655Post TheRealAntMan
Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:33 pm

Are they completely submerged? They could be just stuck if they aren't completely submerged.
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Re: drowning

Post: # 47660Post idahoantgirl
Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:01 pm

This happens pretty often. Take em out and run water over them. They should come to
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.

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Re: drowning

Post: # 47674Post cheetawolf
Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:01 pm

TheRealAntMan wrote:
Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:33 pm
Are they completely submerged? They could be just stuck if they aren't completely submerged.
they were completly submerged, i took them out and i dried them with tissue and put them back in the test-tube, theyre still not moving
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Re: drowning

Post: # 47675Post idahoantgirl
Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:27 pm

They are still covered in sticky fluid.You have got to put them in your hand and run them under lukewarm water.
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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