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[antperson24]

UPDATE: she died

The third one?

[RaptorX]

yes

[RaptorX]

today marks the 10th day since I caught my first and only queen ants
I am starting to go insane, for 10 days they are not doing anything except wandering around the test tube doing nothing.
if they were going to die they would have died by now but I don't get why they haven't, they are just wasting my time at this point.
I don't know if this is normal or not but it's just stressing me out at this point and I can't stand 30 minutes without the thought that I could just walk up to the closet I am keeping them in to find out they are dead!
1) they don't drink the water
2)the 2nd one did not rip its wings out
3) I am not seeing any motivation for them to start a colony whatsoever

[RaptorX]

please help

[SYUTEO]

If they're a semi-claustral species they won't found unless given food. Which one of the ants you caught is having this problem? The Myrmicine ant queen you caught?

[RaptorX]

both of them

[antperson24]

today marks the 10th day since I caught my first and only queen ants
I am starting to go insane, for 10 days they are not doing anything except wandering around the test tube doing nothing.
if they were going to die they would have died by now but I don't get why they haven't, they are just wasting my time at this point.
I don't know if this is normal or not but it's just stressing me out at this point and I can't stand 30 minutes without the thought that I could just walk up to the closet I am keeping them in to find out they are dead!
1) they don't drink the water
2)the 2nd one did not rip its wings out
3) I am not seeing any motivation for them to start a colony whatsoever

If feeding them does not help, they might not be fertile.

[RaptorX]

I can confirm they are fertile because ever since i stopped checking up on them so often they are making a pile of brood

[RaptorX]

today when I checked up on the ants I noticed something strange........a ball of brood!
Now I did not see the queen licking the brood just like in youtube videos, actually, she was on the other side of the tube!
After 1 week when I checked up on her again, I saw her tending to the brood, but my main question is: should they be licking the brood 24/7 or just from time to time?

[antperson24]

today when I checked up on the ants I noticed something strange........a ball of brood!
Now I did not see the queen licking the brood just like in youtube videos, actually, she was on the other side of the tube!
After 1 week when I checked up on her again, I saw her tending to the brood, but my main question is: should they be licking the brood 24/7 or just from time to time?

Just when ever she feels it nessacery, so not all the time.