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Started By Canadant , Apr 1 2020 1:52 PM

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#1 Offline Canadant - Posted April 1 2020 - 1:52 PM

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Does anyone know what feeding dishes Tar Heel Ants use in their vids? They look like small petri dishes. I've been using beer caps but they're a bit unsightly.perhaps larger petri dishes are good too.

If you have an idea for a feeding dish please share your thoughts. It would be for the outworld.

Links are great too. however I'm in Canada (land of no ytong)

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 1 2020 - 4:41 PM

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My big colonies just drag whatever I put in their dish out and dump it all over, so I think they’re kind of pointless. They might look cute a while when a colony has five workers, but it’s not worth spending money on. One thing I’ve done in the past is trim down plastic water bottle caps with a knife to make DIY dishes.
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#3 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 1 2020 - 6:09 PM

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I just cut the bottom off of a plastic cup.

But, as ANTdrew said, they normally just bring the protein into their nest and eat it. I just use mine for honey and stuff.

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#4 Offline Bohica89 - Posted April 1 2020 - 8:31 PM

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My big colonies just drag whatever I put in their dish out and dump it all over, so I think they’re kind of pointless. They might look cute a while when a colony has five workers, but it’s not worth spending money on. One thing I’ve done in the past is trim down plastic water bottle caps with a knife to make DIY dishes.

I don't find they make as much of a mess with powdered food.

 

For example, powdered sugar, powdered/ground crickets, powdered peanut butter, cracker crumbs, ground rice.

I started using powdered food, because of the highly increased acceptance rates. My 4 different ant colonies are more likely to accept it in these forms.


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#5 Offline FSTP - Posted April 2 2020 - 2:09 AM

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If I'm feeding a freshly killed insect I just throw it in the outworld and the ants prcess it and bring it into the nest. If I'm feeding blood worm soup then I do use a petri dish. I use small 30mm ones. 


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#6 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 2 2020 - 1:50 PM

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They might help for honey so it does not soak into the outworld and grow moldy.


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#7 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 2 2020 - 2:57 PM

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Honey doesn't mold.


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