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Brad's Camponotus Fragilis Journal (Updated 5-15-21)


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#1 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted March 17 2019 - 5:47 PM

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3-17-19

So yesterday I bought a Camponotus Fragilis colony from Nurbs. When I got them they had 8 workers and 3 eggs. They are very active and have lots of energy. They are doing super well with my heating cable and just camp around in the tube under it. Here are the pics
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I also made a youtube vid


Edited by B_rad0806, May 15 2021 - 8:52 AM.

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#2 Offline Rstheant - Posted March 18 2019 - 7:57 AM

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Use a incubator and heat lamp. They grow MUCH faster, and it’s more natural.

#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 18 2019 - 10:55 AM

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I love the look of this species.
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#4 Offline Rstheant - Posted March 18 2019 - 12:49 PM

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ANTdrew, seriously who doesn’t??

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#5 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted March 18 2019 - 2:37 PM

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Use a incubator and heat lamp. They grow MUCH faster, and it’s more natural.


Use a incubator and heat lamp. They grow MUCH faster, and it’s more natural.


I do but it doesn’t show in the pic

Sry strange glitch on my phone

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#6 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted March 27 2019 - 2:29 PM

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Time lapse of the colony feeding although they're not that active

https://www.youtube....h?v=ZQYTmvewz3U


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#7 Offline Xanuri - Posted March 27 2019 - 6:00 PM

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Mine are more active in the evening and morning, they do seem to calm down and have "quite time" during the day!


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#8 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted March 28 2019 - 12:17 PM

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Mine are more active in the evening and morning, they do seem to calm down and have "quite time" during the day!


I filmed this during the night

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#9 Offline Rstheant - Posted March 28 2019 - 6:30 PM

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These love Sunburst ant nectar and crickets.

#10 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted May 8 2019 - 4:20 PM

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UPDATE 5-8-19

These guys have been growing very fast. It is just worker after worker after worker. Currently right now they are 15 workers. I'm starting to think that the ones Nurbs gave me have like some dwarfism. They seem kinda small to me and other people. Either way these guys should be getting more workers soon as they are producing a lot of eggs and many pupa are developing.

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#11 Offline Somethinghmm - Posted May 8 2019 - 4:29 PM

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Maybe not enough protein? I'm Something (Socal) from Discord! *wave*



#12 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted May 8 2019 - 4:32 PM

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Maybe not enough protein? I'm Something (Socal) from Discord! *wave*

Oh ok


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#13 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 8 2019 - 6:51 PM

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Yeah this species doesn't explode until you feed them. Nurbs wouldn't be able to manage 15 colonies of C. fragilis with over 50 workers so he doesn't stuff feed them. For the FASTEST growth however, you should feed them a lot more.
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#14 Offline Rstheant - Posted May 8 2019 - 7:50 PM

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I would say from experience if you want TONS of brood, at least 3 times a week, and sugars every other day, or in a liquid feeder.

#15 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted May 9 2019 - 6:28 AM

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I would say from experience if you want TONS of brood, at least 3 times a week, and sugars every other day, or in a liquid feeder.

Ok, i've been feeding them twice so far.


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#16 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted May 28 2019 - 2:57 PM

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UPDATE: 5-28-19

This colony is doing super well. They are currently at around 26-27 workers. I decided to get a v2 formicarium from nurbs because it was hard to feed. When I moved them there were no deaths and it was actually pretty easy. I remembered I had one of Drew's liquid feeders so I put it in there. They are very easy to feed now and they can get sweets whenever they want. I put baby powder along the top so they would not be climbing the roof all the time. I don't expect it to work for very long tho. 

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#17 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted September 25 2019 - 2:42 PM

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Update 9-25-19

Not sure why I have not updated. Just recently these guys hit 50. It has been getting very hard to feed these guys. To make it worse this drank all of their sugar water in their feeder. Yesterday I ordered some PTFE fluon. It will arrive on the 15 of October. Hopefully I can feed these guys soon and they don't die like the other colonies did.

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#18 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted March 2 2020 - 5:35 PM

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UPDATE 3-2-20

A week or 2 ago I started heating these guys up again after the winter. Over the winter they lost about 8 workers bringing them down to 42 workers. I have been feeding them a lot of proteins so that they will get more workers and possibly some majors. They have a large brood pile of maybe 20+ eggs for last year. One if the larva just spun a cocoon today. 


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#19 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted April 13 2020 - 11:32 AM

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Update 4-13-20

These guys have gained quite a few workers. All of last years brood has hatched. They are now in the 50's again. They also gained 2 more majors. There are still +10 more pupae that are going to hatch soon. They also have +30 eggs. They should be around 100 workers in the next month or so. 

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#20 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted April 22 2020 - 1:31 PM

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Update 4-22-20

These guys have 58 workers now. Most of their pupae hatched. There is still about 10 left. They also have around 40 eggs. Plus the queen lays a lot. They should have 100 workers in the next 1-3 months.


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