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#1 Offline Anhzor - Posted August 29 2014 - 11:55 PM

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these guys are gone... but they live on in memories.



#2 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:08 AM

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with my subnitidus queens i never got any workers, in fact i think it has something to do with the test tubes, they all died like the first month and i had 39



#3 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:08 AM

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they werent the glass ones, they are some cheap brand 



#4 Offline Anhzor - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:12 AM

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not sure why yours all die... I need more details.  I seen subnititus queen forage in the wild, so maybe you need to feed them.



#5 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:17 AM

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i did, i gave them honey but they wouldn't take any protein. then they all died except for one that i have which hasnt layed any eggs since june .-.



#6 Offline Anhzor - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:24 AM

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did you make sure they were mated?



#7 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:26 AM

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they were building founding chambers when i was catching them, so i think they were



#8 Offline Anhzor - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:28 AM

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there's a chance it could be the plastic, but who knows?


Edited by Anhzor, August 30 2014 - 12:29 AM.


#9 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:30 AM

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plastic of the test tube ? gosh i need to buy the glass ones...my first year of actually dealing with ant queens, before i just watched them forage 



#10 Offline Anhzor - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:31 AM

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Glass test tube are really cheap on amazon, go spend $30 to get 100.



#11 Offline Alza - Posted August 30 2014 - 12:33 AM

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i spent like 21$ for 100 of these sucky plastic ones. but I'm saving up for the acromyrmex queens and fungal pellets so i can't :(



#12 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 30 2014 - 6:10 AM

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Glass test tube are really cheap on amazon, go spend $30 to get 100.

Link? I have looked for something like that for a while.

#13 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 30 2014 - 7:57 AM

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These are the test tubes I buy. 250 for $35. A lot of the ones you find on eBay and Amazon come from this company.

 

http://www.lcmlab.co...p/206-0006w.htm

 

These are thin and fragile, but the upside to that is you get better pictures through them because there's less distortion.



#14 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 31 2014 - 5:32 PM

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i did, i gave them honey but they wouldn't take any protein. then they all died except for one that i have which hasnt layed any eggs since june .-.

 

I found, if you lock a flightless fruitfly into the test tube with a P.subnitidus queen and cover it, come back in a half hour and the fruitfly is gone (Ant Magic Trick!). This is how I got mine to eat, and FINALLY start to lay eggs again after about two months. They go into kind of a starvation mode if they are not given protein, and therefore will stop laying eggs.



#15 Offline Alza - Posted August 31 2014 - 5:52 PM

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#16 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 31 2014 - 6:17 PM

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Yes... I know, shocking ant magic trick. Fruitflies are great for any queen or small colony.






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