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[drawpositive]

I have listed some of my colonies for sale within this marketplace.  However, I'd like to unload them before they grow too large (become less manageable).  Ideally, I'd like to sell them before I put them into hibernation in November.

 

With the mindset of "the more lines you cast, the more likely you are to catch a fish," where else could I list the ants for sale, besides this forum?

 

I have listed them on the AntsCanada GAN program. 

 

I have attempted to list them as "relocatable pets with a small adoption fee included" on Craigslist (which is within their terms of use).  I used the justification that I had collected the queens prior to their starting colonies, and now that they have founding colonies raised in captivity, if I were to release them, I would have no way of knowing where the territories of already established-and-probably-much-larger colonies were, basically sentencing these captive-raised colonies to imminent death; therefore, adoption by another owner was preferable. However, the post was taken down --I suppose invertebrates rarely get the treatment that vertebrates get (which I understand).

[ANTdrew]

GAN project is the best place. You can ask for higher prices, but the downside is that you’re mostly selling to really young kids that don’t know what they’re doing yet. Most GAN customers buy the huge, expensive plastic AC products first, then look for a tiny founding colony.