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#1 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted May 6 2021 - 7:12 AM

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About a month ago i caught a colony budding it was one queen plus 10 workers running around. They were doing well in a test tube they didn't have any brood though so i set out to catch some brood and some workers to boost them. i found some under a mulch bed and scooped up a pile of eggs. i also went around my house every day for 30 minutes scoping up the workers i saw running in my house and adding them to the colony. When i added the brood found  realized i had scooped up some queens four of them. I found some queen alates too so now the colony has seven queens! and also a lot of workers too maybe 200-300 so i moved them into an acrylic setup and they love it. they have a massive amount of eggs from all of the queens. i feed them meal worms and spiders and occasionally a termite or two. I also like giving them ham as the cut off pieces of it and bring it back to the nest much resembling leaf cutter ants. they let the meat dry for a few days then proceed to gnaw on it and eat it. i also notice that they cover everything with sand via there out world. even there byformica liquid feeder with agave nectar in it was covered. i do think they still can drink from it too. i have been experimenting with feeding chips and bread they hate them lol. i am exited for this new generation of workers! i will be sure to update you all on them. :)


My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 


#2 Offline Lillyrose - Posted May 8 2021 - 3:33 PM

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If they're putting sand on the feeder you might wanna try moving it back from their tube a little. They tend to do that when they're worried it could flood their nest.

It's awesome that they're being such good ants for you! I know they can be a pain in captivity. Will you be posting pictures?




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