My Nephew dumped my new ant Colony

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TheMango
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My Nephew dumped my new ant Colony

Post: # 75743Post TheMango
Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:38 am

So I just got my ant colony yesterday, I dropped them off at home and had to run to the store, my girlfriends 6 year old nephew, took it upon himself to free the brand new colony and dumped the all the ants, queen included onto the table. my girlfriend proceeded to grab the ants with a rubber tweezers and put them back into the portal, I got back and tried to salvage what I could, the ants just hung out in the portal and didn't go back into the tube so I as gently as possible, picked up the Queen and a few ants with the rubber tweezers and put them In the tube, should I be worried?! I'm new to antfarms so this is uncharted territory for me any advice would be much appreciated

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Re: My Nephew dumped my new ant Colony

Post: # 75746Post AM1C39
Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:38 am

Your colony should be fine as long as the queen is not harmed. You should probably put them somewhere they can't be disturbed by your Nephew.
My current colonies:
-Miniature Military(formica neogagates)
-Black Hearts(crematogaster cerasi)
In search of new camponotus colony
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TheMango
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Re: My Nephew dumped my new ant Colony

Post: # 75752Post TheMango
Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:10 pm

Ok perfect, I didn't know he would be over, and I put them on the table, so ya. I hope they will be ok

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