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Bartol
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Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 48957Post Bartol
Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:44 am

My question is when should i start feeding them in test tubes, is it when they have their first workers or later or before because i dont believe they can sustain themselves till they are ready to move in the formicarium

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Re: Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 48968Post idahoantgirl
Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:28 am

Fully claustral queens should not be fed unless they have serious setbacks (eating their brood multiple times) Provide your colony with an outworld (drinking straw method) when the first worker ecloses. Never feed in the tube as this causes stress and mold outbreaks.
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

Bartol
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Re: Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 48977Post Bartol
Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:30 pm

idahoantgirl wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:28 am
Fully claustral queens should not be fed unless they have serious setbacks (eating their brood multiple times) Provide your colony with an outworld (drinking straw method) when the first worker ecloses. Never feed in the tube as this causes stress and mold outbreaks.
can u elaborate what the drinking straw method is

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Re: Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 48978Post AntsDakota
Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:33 pm

Bartol wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:30 pm
idahoantgirl wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:28 am
Fully claustral queens should not be fed unless they have serious setbacks (eating their brood multiple times) Provide your colony with an outworld (drinking straw method) when the first worker ecloses. Never feed in the tube as this causes stress and mold outbreaks.
can u elaborate what the drinking straw method is
Stick a drinking straw through the cotton and put the other end into your outworld. This provides a small and secure tunnel for your ants.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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idahoantgirl
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Re: Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 49042Post idahoantgirl
Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:20 am

The one inch section of drinking straw is wedged between the exit cotton and the side of the tube.
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

AntsDakota
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Re: Feeding claustral queens

Post: # 49144Post AntsDakota
Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:15 pm

I love watching my ants exploring their outworld for the first time.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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