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Hello from Sydney Australia

Post: # 5128Post oBAILSo
Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:22 am

Hi I'm a 13year old boy living in Sydney and after discovering the interesting hobby through Mikey Bustos 6 months ago I caught my first queen in early December. Now I have 9 queens which I think are iridomyrmex, living in the AntsCanada Omni and hybrid nests.

I'm interested in selling some of my queens on the GAN project. I think I will be the first seller in Sydney, the biggest city in Australia.

I got a macro lens for Christmas and I started taking some videos with my iPad.
Here is the first video I have made of my ants close-up and I will be making some more soon. :D


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Post: # 5129Post ooper01
Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:15 am

Wow! What an awesome colony you have there! Great YouTube video as well. The GAN Project would love to have you as a GAN Farmer!
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Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:43 pm

Great Video! Thanks for Sharing it with us! Glad you like the nest and it seems your colony likes it too!
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Re: Hello from Sydney Australia

Post: # 5137Post idahoantgirl
Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:57 pm

oBAILSo wrote:Hi I'm a 13year old boy living in Sydney and after discovering the interesting hobby through Mikey Bustos 6 months ago I caught my first queen in early December. Now I have 9 queens which I think are iridomyrmex, living in the AntsCanada Omni and hybrid nests.

I'm interested in selling some of my queens on the GAN project. I think I will be the first seller in Sydney, the biggest city in Australia.

I got a macro lens for Christmas and I started taking some videos with my iPad.
Here is the first video I have made of my ants close-up and I will be making some more soon. :D

Awesome job! Best wishes for your colony!
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

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Re: Hello from Sydney Australia

Post: # 5146Post WillWithAnts
Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:32 pm

Nice! How many of your colonies have multiple queens? Are they all monogynous?

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Post: # 5185Post oBAILSo
Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:18 pm

Yes they are all monogynous I tried to keep a colony with two queens (iridomyrmex) but unfortunately one queen got attacked in the test tube and she lost a leg and died. :cry: So I know not to do that again. I did find some Pheidole Queens once but they are less easy to find and I didn't have a chance to put two together because they ended up not surviving for various reasons. And a few months ago I found a Camponotus consobrinus queen ant (she was a huge bull ant)and she laid a few eggs but I let her go because I didn't feel ready to accomodate them after being told they can bite real hard.

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Post: # 5197Post oLiamo
Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:07 pm

Hello oBailo


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Post: # 5199Post oLiamo
Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:13 pm

Great work on your colony hope people will buy some :)

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