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Am i able to give the ants meat for example fish instead of having feeder insects

You should only give your colonies insects until they reach a large enough size to take their time with large food items.

Batspiderfish wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:10 pm

You should only give your colonies insects until they reach a large enough size to take their time with large food items.

yes i know that but i would take fish cut it up into a size they can tolerate i just didn't know if they got something from insects that they wouldn't get from meat. So can they survive off of meat and sugar products or do they need insects to live.

Because insects have hemolymph which adults can actually consume. Meat for humans needs to be chewed up by teams of larvae in order to gain nutrition.