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[ariaant]

Hello all,

 

I just recently caught about 10 or so Myrmecocystus mimicus and a couple of possible Myrmecocystus Yuma queens.  From reading the journals, it appears they have a high mortality during the founding stage and do well in dirt set ups. I hope to put the best looking queens in a handful of dirt boxes, but I don't really have room to put them all in dirt boxes.  The rest will probably have to go into test tubes.  Has anyone had experience with them in test tubes? Do they do best with soil in the test tubes?  If so how much?  

 

Any advice on how to get through the founding stage would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[Zeiss]

The ones in test tubes can have sand/dirt/clay thrown in with them and it can be as much as you want.  It's mostly to help the larvae pupate and spin their cocoons.

[ariaant]

The ones in test tubes can have sand/dirt/clay thrown in with them and it can be as much as you want.  It's mostly to help the larvae pupate and spin their cocoons.

Thanks for the input; all the queens in tubes have some dirt from where i found the queens.