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Top 5 Ant Equipment

Started By M_Ants , Aug 16 2020 2:38 PM

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#1 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 16 2020 - 2:38 PM

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Lot's of threads about this already but making one anyways. I want the top 5 most important ant keeping equipment I should buy. Already have test tubes and normal tweezers. Going to get an aspirator. What are the other must have things? Special tweezers?

Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp.

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi

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#2 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted August 16 2020 - 3:44 PM

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Black light setup for sure. It's quite an investment depending on who you buy from, but it reaps really good results when done at the right conditions. If you want to go even further up in quality, I believe Mercury Vapor lights (though even more expensive and super fragile) are even more viable, and do God's work from what I hear from my friends in the professional field.

#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 16 2020 - 4:45 PM

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-reverse close tweezers
- byFormica liquid feeders
- macro lenses for your phone camera
- aspirator
- Fluon

Free: any good bird feather for brushing ants off stuff. This is helpful if you have really big colonies. Can help manually moving ants, too.

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#4 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted August 16 2020 - 5:30 PM

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-water

-fluon

-cotton

-some sort of biggish container

-gloves(especially with stinging species)

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#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted August 16 2020 - 6:48 PM

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These are my picks, but are in no particular order:

-Fluon
-Byformica feeders
-Syringes
-long tweezers
-snap cap vials

My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#6 Offline TechAnt - Posted August 16 2020 - 6:59 PM

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Tar Heel Ant formicaria

My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen