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[Hightlyze]

I have no drill nor an area that I could use for my 3 odontoponera queens

[Zeiss]

Yes, they can.  You will just have to feed them inside their tubes.

[Dnail]

I have no drill nor an area that I could use for my 3 odontoponera queens

i suggest you to put test tube on container and add some soil, they easily stressed in test tube

[Hightlyze]

I have no drill nor an area that I could use for my 3 odontoponera queens

i suggest you to put test tube on container and add some soil, they easily stressed in test tube

I have 3. So do I get 3 containers?

[Serafine]

Get 3 cheap acrylic containers from the dollar shop. Something like this.

 

[Hightlyze]

I made this earlier

[Serafine]

Those should do (just make sure they can't get out of them). Just add some sugars and food and they should be fine.

[Dnail]

make cover for the tube like 

 

Get 3 cheap acrylic containers from the dollar shop. Something like this.

 

 

soil will make them comfortable cause they can't climb glass or plastic, they will take some soil to the tube

[Dnail]

my DIY, for my Odontomachus queen and its work. i failed with Odontoponera mostly because idk their diet. I tried with mealworm and cricket, only manage to get larvae never get to pupae

[CoolColJ]

I have no drill nor an area that I could use for my 3 odontoponera queens

 

 

yes!

 

I raise all my semi-claustrals in a  test tube for 1 week usually before opening it up in a tube and tubes setup.

that way they know the tube is safe and their home, otherwise they tend to nest in the outworld

 

But I usually keep my non bull ant  semi-claustrals in a sealed test tube, especially polyrachis as they have very slow growth times and fair better as such, as the food is there inside the test tube