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#1 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 24 2017 - 6:12 PM

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So, I caught this colony under a log in late August, but killed their brood in the process. Their first and second brood in captivity died seemingly without reason. And I'm worried that they might not make it, seeing how they are over one year old and only have eleven workers.


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#2 Offline T.C. - Posted November 24 2017 - 7:02 PM

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So, I just started keeping ants last August, and I need help with my Camponotus Noveaboricensis colony. Thanks in advance!


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#3 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 24 2017 - 7:08 PM

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I need info on care. I've had them since August of 2016 and they just have eleven workers.

Edited by Ant_Dude2908, November 24 2017 - 7:09 PM.


#4 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 24 2017 - 7:39 PM

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So, I just started keeping ants last August, and I need help with my Camponotus Noveaboricensis colony. Thanks in advance!

Can't help you if you don't tell us the issue.



Fixed! (I hope... gulp)  :cold:


Edited by Ant_Dude2908, November 25 2017 - 12:24 PM.


#5 Offline T.C. - Posted November 24 2017 - 9:53 PM

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#6 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 25 2017 - 12:15 PM

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Thanks!



#7 Offline dermy - Posted November 25 2017 - 12:17 PM

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I need info on care. I've had them since August of 2016 and they just have eleven workers.

Most Camponotus species are very slow growing, especially during the first few years of the Colony. 



#8 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 25 2017 - 12:22 PM

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Thanks, I knew they were slow, but not this slow! :)



#9 Offline Noah Norman - Posted November 25 2017 - 1:15 PM

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Yeah they are very slowly growing, I have had my camponotus chromaiodes colony for 2 years and only have 15.
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#10 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 25 2017 - 2:02 PM

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Oh, wow!  :o



#11 Offline Pleming - Posted November 25 2017 - 5:03 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 


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#12 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 25 2017 - 5:07 PM

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Ok, yeah I was thinking about heating them, and all other colonies next year. :D  :o  :o  :D



#13 Offline Pleming - Posted November 25 2017 - 5:14 PM

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Heat makes a huge difference. I heat all my colonies. The ones I don't due to lack of space on the heating cable take forever to grow. 


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#14 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 25 2017 - 5:45 PM

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Thanks! I have a heat mat...... I will try that this come spring! :)  



#15 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted December 7 2017 - 9:56 PM

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Soooooo, (sigh) I moved these into a formicarium made of acrylic and grout with an integrated out world
not realizing that I forgot to add a connection port. They look awesome with their majors and queen but I am not sure how to move them out when they out grow it.

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#16 Offline nurbs - Posted December 7 2017 - 10:16 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

 

That one you purchased was an exception to the rule for sure. Some queens are just better egg poopers than others. I heat mine as well, and avg is 15-30 workers for the first year for C. modoc.

 

For example, majority of my C. sansabeanus averaged 15-30 workers this season. And have a few that are still at 5 workers. And then I have one now that is near 80 workers. A lot of it just depends on the "quality of the queen".


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#17 Offline KBant - Posted December 8 2017 - 2:56 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

holy crap!  yeah you got a nice queen from nurbs! i have about 25 workers chilling in the fridge. 

 

mind sharing a pic of your setup? also what kind of heat and how hot do you keep? and what do you feed!? perhaps if i can mimic your conditions i too can see an explosion in growth. 



#18 Offline Pleming - Posted December 8 2017 - 7:50 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

 

That one you purchased was an exception to the rule for sure. Some queens are just better egg poopers than others. I heat mine as well, and avg is 15-30 workers for the first year for C. modoc.

 

For example, majority of my C. sansabeanus averaged 15-30 workers this season. And have a few that are still at 5 workers. And then I have one now that is near 80 workers. A lot of it just depends on the "quality of the queen".

 

 

You gave me the lucky one! She won't stop laying eggs. Worker count is over 200 and she is still laying eggs. I counted over 70 eggs the other day.  Just took them off the heating cable and ill hibernate them soon. 

 

 

Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

holy crap!  yeah you got a nice queen from nurbs! i have about 25 workers chilling in the fridge. 

 

mind sharing a pic of your setup? also what kind of heat and how hot do you keep? and what do you feed!? perhaps if i can mimic your conditions i too can see an explosion in growth. 

 

 

I'll try and get a good pic of the setup and post it. 



#19 Offline nurbs - Posted December 8 2017 - 10:45 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

holy crap!  yeah you got a nice queen from nurbs! i have about 25 workers chilling in the fridge. 

 

mind sharing a pic of your setup? also what kind of heat and how hot do you keep? and what do you feed!? perhaps if i can mimic your conditions i too can see an explosion in growth. 

 

 

You're doing fine. He just got one of those exceptional queens that just won't stop popping out eggs. 


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Undescribed "Modoc"

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Camponotus or Colobopsis yogi:

https://www.formicul...a-ca-1-28-2018/

 
Camponotus us-ca02
https://www.formicul...onotus-us-ca02/

 

Unidentified Formica

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#20 Offline Pleming - Posted December 9 2017 - 4:08 PM

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Have a C. Modoc colony that was caught this year and has over 200 workers. Majors are huge!

 

Heat and food will make them grow like crazy. 

holy crap!  yeah you got a nice queen from nurbs! i have about 25 workers chilling in the fridge. 

 

mind sharing a pic of your setup? also what kind of heat and how hot do you keep? and what do you feed!? perhaps if i can mimic your conditions i too can see an explosion in growth. 

 

 

You're doing fine. He just got one of those exceptional queens that just won't stop popping out eggs. 

 

 

One Queen to rule them all!

 

Yeah I just got really luck! My other C. Laevigatus only has around 35 workers and she hasn't laid eggs in months. 






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