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[VenomousBeast]

Hey! So, I've been keeping this species for about a year now and has been very successful! They're at about their 100 workers limit. Every day I feed them sugar water, normally they'll accept this but the sugar has to be in low amounts. They won't accept it if there's too much sugar. For feeding them, I put in small crushed mealworms or crushed crickets and they get at the juices. Hope I helped!

 

-Haden Lee

Keeps:

Myrmecina americana-1

Camponotus noveboracensis-3

Temnothorax curvispinosus-1

Stigmatomma Pallipes-2

Solenopsis molesta-4

Aphenogaster fulva-7

Paratrechina longicornis-1

Ponera pennsylvanica-3

 

 

[VoidElecent]

Hey! So, I've been keeping this species for about a year now and has been very successful! They're at about their 100 workers limit. Every day I feed them sugar water, normally they'll accept this but the sugar has to be in low amounts. They won't accept it if there's too much sugar. For feeding them, I put in small crushed mealworms or crushed crickets and they get at the juices. Hope I helped!

 

100 M. americana? Very impressive! Journal, please!

[AntsAreUs]

Hey! So, I've been keeping this species for about a year now and has been very successful! They're at about their 100 workers limit. Every day I feed them sugar water, normally they'll accept this but the sugar has to be in low amounts. They won't accept it if there's too much sugar. For feeding them, I put in small crushed mealworms or crushed crickets and they get at the juices. Hope I helped!

 

-Haden Lee

Keeps:

Myrmecina americana-1

Camponotus noveboracensis-3

Temnothorax curvispinosus-1

Stigmatomma Pallipes-2

Solenopsis molesta-4

Aphenogaster fulva-7

Paratrechina longicornis-1

Ponera pennsylvanica-3

That's really nice! I would absolutely love to see pictures as they are very rarely documented. Mine only have eggs right now.

[VenomousBeast]

I've made a journal for this species! here's the link: http://www.formicult...nal/#entry89196

[Mettcollsuss]

5-13-18

Still nothing...    

[AntsAreUs]

5-13-18

Still nothing...    

Wow really? One of my queens are up to 9 or 10 eggs.

[Mettcollsuss]

 

5-13-18

Still nothing...    

Wow really? One of my queens are up to 9 or 10 eggs.

 

Lucky...

[VenomousBeast]

Have you tied adjusting the temp??

[Mettcollsuss]

Her tube is connected to a heating cable.

 

Should I try adding soil to the test tube to make it feel more natural?

[VenomousBeast]

_{You could, I didn't and it didn't make much of a difference}

[Mettcollsuss]

7-6-18

still nothing new... 

[AntsAreUs]

7-6-18

still nothing new... 

I know mine refused to lay eggs or would eat their eggs if I failed to provide sugar water for them. I'm not sure if that helps at all with your situation though.

[Mettcollsuss]

So, um... it would appear that I have lost this queen. Not like, she died or escaped, but I managed to lose the tube that had her in it. I was updating my journals and found this one and it occurred to me, "it's been a while since I remember seeing her" and now I just checked and can't find her in any of my ant drawers. So, until I find another or I find her somehow miraculously still alive, this journal is discontinued. 

Edited by Mettcollsuss, August 28 2018 - 1:15 PM.

[Ant_Dude2908]

Oh No! Sorry for your loss.

Edited by Ant_Dude2908, October 12 2018 - 6:03 PM.

[Ant_Dude2908]

Did you find the tube?

[Mettcollsuss]

Still nope

I'm mad at past me for losing that tube. That would have been a fun species...