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What is the best piece of advice for new antkeepers that you have learned?

Started By Ants_Dakota , Feb 20 2020 10:31 AM
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#21 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 22 2020 - 3:12 PM

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BE. PATIENT. you cannot rush it and it will only kill them faster

The more you check on them, the more likely they'll eat their eggs, and the more likely you'll get frustrated, and quit the hobby.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#22 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted February 22 2020 - 8:20 PM

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#23 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 23 2020 - 5:39 AM

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yes. Every bone in my body agrees with this


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#24 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 23 2020 - 6:35 AM

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I love reading documents about various ant species. Yet I always feel there’s just too few......
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#25 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 23 2020 - 6:36 AM

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yeah, but people will always keep making them


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#26 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 23 2020 - 6:38 AM

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However, all the sources say pretty much the same thing, just in a slightly different way.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#27 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 23 2020 - 7:36 AM

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yeah, you just have to know how to look for it


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#28 Offline ponerinecat - Posted February 23 2020 - 10:51 AM

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Mostly because people don't study them enough. You can't make papers if there's nothing to write on.


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#29 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 23 2020 - 1:03 PM

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also true


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#30 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 23 2020 - 2:36 PM

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Kill them all.

Hmmm... an interesting opinion on an ant site...


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#31 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 23 2020 - 3:50 PM

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He’s had his fair share of interesting opinions.......
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#32 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 23 2020 - 5:39 PM

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very true


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#33 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted February 24 2020 - 8:39 AM

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Always start with a test tube, then work your way up to like an AntsCanada ant tower (depending on what type of species it is) or a Tar Heel ants mini hearth. I kept my Camponotus Modoc colony in a test tube for like...2 years are they did great (I did need to change out the test tube a couple of times, but it was fine). Then I connected their test tube to a AntsCanada ant tower, in hopes to have then move into it, but they never did. Then I put them into a mini hearth, and they are doing great (the species I have is really stubborn, so I had to force them into the mini hearth :( ).

 

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#34 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 24 2020 - 8:47 AM

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He’s had his fair share of interesting opinions.......

Of course. I was just stating that that was an interesting opinion to have and be on a ant-lover site


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#35 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 24 2020 - 2:32 PM

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I meant he had some opinions similar to “kill them all”, except in terms of the ethicality of ant keeping.

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

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#37 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 24 2020 - 4:50 PM

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I kept my Camponotus Modoc colony 

I still say they're pennsylvanicus.......


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#38 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 24 2020 - 4:55 PM

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You would have to have genetic testing done, so why don't we let the cards fall where they may...


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#39 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 24 2020 - 4:58 PM

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Both species are present in South Dakota, yet the climate favors C. pennsylvanicus. Diversity seems to be more similar to the East Coast than the West Coast/Southwest.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#40 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 24 2020 - 5:00 PM

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once again, genetic testing would have to differentiate them for certain, so there's no real point in guessing the genus unless one of you plan on genetically testing it... 


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