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Barristan's Pheidole pallidula colony

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#21 Offline Barristan - Posted February 12 2016 - 4:40 AM

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Very clear photoes and videos, that is lots of brood! The major actually helps to carry brood in your video. Mine usually just sit around do nothing, other than food processing and storage. The majors are super strong, mine dragged the flies into the nest when they were desperate for food.

 

Thank you! It's just part of the brood the colony has a lot more. I hope the new nest will at least last for a month... ;). I also wondered why a major carried some brood. This species has a higher majors:minor worker ratio than my other Pheidole species I kept (Pheidole spathifera). When colony is bigger I will feed them a frozen baby mouse.


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#22 Offline Mdrogun - Posted February 12 2016 - 1:05 PM

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Very clear photoes and videos, that is lots of brood! The major actually helps to carry brood in your video. Mine usually just sit around do nothing, other than food processing and storage. The majors are super strong, mine dragged the flies into the nest when they were desperate for food.

 

Thank you! It's just part of the brood the colony has a lot more. I hope the new nest will at least last for a month... ;). I also wondered why a major carried some brood. This species has a higher majors:minor worker ratio than my other Pheidole species I kept (Pheidole spathifera). When colony is bigger I will feed them a frozen baby mouse.

 

I cannot wait to see them eat a baby mouse.


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#23 Offline drtrmiller - Posted February 12 2016 - 1:30 PM

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I fed some of my ants frozen pinky mice years ago, but that's an expensive diet to maintain.


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#24 Offline antmaniac - Posted February 12 2016 - 11:08 PM

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Very clear photoes and videos, that is lots of brood! The major actually helps to carry brood in your video. Mine usually just sit around do nothing, other than food processing and storage. The majors are super strong, mine dragged the flies into the nest when they were desperate for food.

 

Thank you! It's just part of the brood the colony has a lot more. I hope the new nest will at least last for a month... ;). I also wondered why a major carried some brood. This species has a higher majors:minor worker ratio than my other Pheidole species I kept (Pheidole spathifera). When colony is bigger I will feed them a frozen baby mouse.

 

Wow, that would be massive!



#25 Offline Barristan - Posted February 13 2016 - 5:11 AM

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I fed some of my ants frozen pinky mice years ago, but that's an expensive diet to maintain.

 

Yes they're too expensive to feed them on a daily basis. But hopefully they're good for a nice time lapse video :).



#26 Offline Barristan - Posted February 13 2016 - 5:20 AM

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#27 Offline antmaniac - Posted February 13 2016 - 7:24 PM

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Yeah, the Pheidole grows too fast! I have to limit the feeding, otherwise can't keep up with the expansion.


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#28 Offline Barristan - Posted February 19 2016 - 1:01 AM

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#29 Offline LC3 - Posted February 19 2016 - 1:15 AM

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Looks like they've made a bunch of tunnels underneath the substrate.

#30 Offline Barristan - Posted February 19 2016 - 1:18 AM

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Yes they tried but the sand layer is only around 4 mm thick, so they can't dig a lot. But I have to build another nest nest week the old one is quite crowded. I will buy a 60x20x10 cm ytong brick and carve out tunnel and chambers on both long sides.


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#31 Offline LC3 - Posted February 19 2016 - 1:22 AM

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Sounds good.

#32 Offline DAM1987 - Posted February 21 2016 - 4:38 AM

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Hi there, do you cover the whole nest with an heat mat ? also how often and how much do you give them water ?

do you have a thermostat at what temps .. i hope these questions are ok.

 

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#33 Offline Barristan - Posted February 21 2016 - 9:06 AM

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Hi there, do you cover the whole nest with an heat mat ? also how often and how much do you give them water ?

do you have a thermostat at what temps .. i hope these questions are ok.

 

Thanks

 

The heat mat covers almost the whole nest. The nest is 30 x 20 cm and the heat mat 28 x 14 cm. It's power is 7 Watts. The nest is always moist and in the outworld they have always a water source however they don't drink a lot in the outworld. I think they get most of the water needed from the moist nest. I don't have a thermostat but I can regulate the heat mat.


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#34 Offline Barristan - Posted February 24 2016 - 9:29 AM

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#35 Offline Barristan - Posted February 27 2016 - 2:57 AM

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#36 Offline Ants4fun - Posted February 28 2016 - 12:36 PM

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Nice video. How did you timelapse it? A web program?

#37 Offline Barristan - Posted February 28 2016 - 2:04 PM

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Nice video. How did you timelapse it? A web program?

 

My camcorder does support it directly.



#38 Offline dspdrew - Posted February 28 2016 - 2:42 PM

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That's a cool video.


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#39 Offline Barristan - Posted March 6 2016 - 9:41 AM

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#40 Offline Ants4fun - Posted March 6 2016 - 10:35 AM

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Nice. Unfortunately ytong is not easily accessible in America.





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