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Brad's Myrmecocystus Navajo Journal (Updated 9-6-22)

Started By B_rad0806 , Aug 20 2020 7:13 AM

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#21 Offline Devi - Posted January 26 2021 - 4:20 PM

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Ahh, so sorry to hear that, man. These queens and colonies seem to keel over and die quite often. It probably wasn't your fault. Maybe next year.

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#22 Offline FSTP - Posted January 26 2021 - 7:36 PM

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These died on Thanksgiving for reasons I am not sure of. The day before everything looked just fine with no problems. Next day the queen was on its back dead. I didn't want to update the journal because it makes me very angry think about the fact that these died.

That is one of honey pot ant's favorite hobbies, being fine one day and then dying on their back the very next. Don't feel too bad. After years of founding honeypots and seeing how they do this it gets a little easier to deal with. Though, its never a nice thing.

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#23 Offline Devi - Posted January 26 2021 - 8:35 PM

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That is one of honey pot ant's favorite hobbies, being fine one day and then dying on their back the very next.

Ahhh, well said. This is a great quote that should be remembered. The Truth About Pots.

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#24 Offline nurbs - Posted January 27 2021 - 1:10 PM

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I've given you tons of free stuff last year. Also promised to give you a Novomessor colony since you fantabulously killed all yours. I am out of Novos but can spare a Navajo. They are healthy, season 2020, with a decent amount of workers still in test tubes and sand.

Haven't been heating them all Winter. You'll need a THA nest or similar.

Want it? I usually only give free stuff to discord kids, but since they banned you I'll make an exception.

I'm nice like that.

If you kill this colony I'm never speaking to you again. Just kidding, maybe.

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#25 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted January 27 2021 - 1:41 PM

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I've given you tons of free stuff last year. Also promised to give you a Novomessor colony since you fantabulously killed all yours. I am out of Novos but can spare a Navajo. They are healthy, season 2020, with a decent amount of workers still in test tubes and sand.

Haven't been heating them all Winter. You'll need a THA nest or similar.

Want it? I usually only give free stuff to discord kids, but since they banned you I'll make an exception.

I'm nice like that.

If you kill this colony I'm never speaking to you again. Just kidding, maybe.

Nurbs you are absolutely GOATED

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#26 Offline antsandmore - Posted January 27 2021 - 1:48 PM

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I've given you tons of free stuff last year. Also promised to give you a Novomessor colony since you fantabulously killed all yours. I am out of Novos but can spare a Navajo. They are healthy, season 2020, with a decent amount of workers still in test tubes and sand.

Haven't been heating them all Winter. You'll need a THA nest or similar.

Want it? I usually only give free stuff to discord kids, but since they banned you I'll make an exception.

I'm nice like that.

If you kill this colony I'm never speaking to you again. Just kidding, maybe.

how 'bout me? jk. Its cool that you give out things like this. lol. THIS IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE B_RAD

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#27 Offline benxixi - Posted January 28 2021 - 3:33 PM

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so cool . hope they grow well .

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#28 Offline M_Ants - Posted January 28 2021 - 3:47 PM

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Lucky! I need to kill some ants I guess.

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#29 Offline antsandmore - Posted January 28 2021 - 4:56 PM

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Lucky! I need to kill some ants I guess.

lol... yes. 1000s of dead argentines for a colony would be nice.

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#30 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted February 1 2021 - 8:16 AM

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Because Nurbs is a very kind person I now have a new colony of these. They have around 12 workers and a good amount of larvae. Now lets hope these guys don't pull a stupid and decide to die. I am going to be extra careful in what I do so these guys don't decide to just die on me.

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#31 Offline antsandmore - Posted February 1 2021 - 8:22 AM

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Because Nurbs is a very kind person I now have a new colony of these. They have around 12 workers and a good amount of larvae. Now lets hope these guys don't pull a stupid and decide to die. I am going to be extra careful in what I do so these guys don't decide to just die on me.

yay! good luck!

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#32 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted February 10 2021 - 12:22 PM

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Just dumped these little guys into a mini hearth. So far they are just chilling in the outworld

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#33 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted February 23 2021 - 9:14 PM

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So um... I really do suck at Mexicanus and Navajo don't I? Queen out of the blue died today and I am very VERY angry. Sorry Mr. Nurbs for failing your pots

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#34 Offline Guest_StrickyAnts_* - Posted February 23 2021 - 9:37 PM

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#35 Offline Canadant - Posted February 24 2021 - 2:01 PM

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Well you tried. Nothing wrong with that. We all learn from others successes and failures on these forums. I now know these suddenly up and die. They looked so cool too. Thanks.

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#36 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted August 7 2021 - 9:40 PM

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Update 8-7-21

I received 1 of these queens along with my 2 mexicanus queens from Nurbs yesterday. Hopefully these guys don't go full idiot mode and die causing me to go insane.

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#37 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted August 27 2021 - 7:54 AM

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Update 8-27-21

Queen is doing great. Has a good 10 ish pupae with more to come within the next few days. I expect workers in about a week or so.

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#38 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted September 5 2021 - 1:45 PM

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Update 9-5-21

This queen is doing fantastic. Just got it's first 3 workers yesterday. there's still like 13-16 pupae that still need to hatch, queens first batch was massive. Within like the next few days-week all the pupae should hatch. I'm excited to see them in full action once all their workers hatch.

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#39 Offline KadinB - Posted September 5 2021 - 11:36 PM

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Wow very cool. Let's hope these live lol. Good luck with them!!

#40 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted October 5 2021 - 9:45 PM

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I traded with cocdeshijie for a colony with around 30 workers. They are currently housed in a good nest with tons of brood. They also have a small replete. As for my other colony, they have around 14 workers with pupae & larvae and are still in the tube. I plan on moving them into a bamboo tube some time soon.