How often do you feed proteins to your colony?

[Acutus3399]

That is a really good design idea! May try something like this too. Most of my ants are in AC setups so I may add the heat cable to them and try this with the smaller colonies.

Oh and BTW I have a pretty big C.chromaiodes colony I feed protien everyday and sugar as the Honey I give is depleted.
smaller colonies get every other day or three.

[UnrealSparks]

That is a really good design idea! May try something like this too. Most of my ants are in AC setups so I may add the heat cable to them and try this with the smaller colonies.

I'm glad you like it. It will surely make a difference for their growth rate.

Oh and BTW I have a pretty big C.chromaiodes colony I feed protien everyday and sugar as the Honey I give is depleted.
smaller colonies get every other day or three.

That's nice, thanks!
Out of curiosity though... how big is the Camponotus colony in numbers (approximately), and how long have you been keeping it?

[Acutus3399]

That's nice, thanks!
Out of curiosity though... how big is the Camponotus colony in numbers (approximately), and how long have you been keeping it?

Only since 4/23 so I'm very new to this. You can see the colony in my post Here:

https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=14160

[UnrealSparks]

Only since 4/23 so I'm very new to this. You can see the colony in my post Here:

https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=14160

Sorry for the late response.
I've never seen a Camponotus colony that big! Wow! It must be challenging for a beginner, but good luck!

[Acutus3399]

Thank you! It's a very cool colony and sar far not real difficult at all. I counted ants in pics today and there are more than 500 workers but the amount of brood is mind boggling. There is gonna be a population explosion really soon!