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#1 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted September 21 2021 - 11:14 AM

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Soo I wasn't gonna make a journal on these but they have blew my mind. So a while back in around December I bought 2 camponotus semitestaceus queens incase one died I would have another. One laid eggs and founded a colony (that is now dead). But the other one I just kept in my drawer. I thought she ws a dud so I didn't do anything with her, until i checked on her. She laid eggs, then workers came in, and now she is producing like crazy fast. Now there in a mini hearth(this all happend in around a month.) Here they are20210921-120100.jpg she also recently laid some more eggs20210921-115520.jpg The queens is also very fat now 😅20210921-120041.jpg But that about sums it up 😊 👋

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#2 Offline KadinB - Posted September 21 2021 - 3:42 PM

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I love this sp. I will for sure be following along on this journal.


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#3 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted September 26 2021 - 9:52 AM

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Big update! They have more then doubled their size! They were at 3 workers, now there at 8 :) (in the corner you can see a bit of trophallaxis going on)20210926-104356.jpgI have also given them small cricket that they have absolutely demolished20210926-104313.jpgI've seen people use ByFormica feeders so I bought some, put some nector in their and gave it to them, they REALLY like the feeder, it's only been 3 days and it's already halfway finished20210926-105139.jpgSooo that's about it :) :) :)
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#4 Offline Lillyrose - Posted September 26 2021 - 10:24 AM

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Wow! They're loving the feeder .. they were the best investment I made.

I love your pictures
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#5 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted September 27 2021 - 1:04 PM

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Not really sure how to identify larvae, but is the one that the worker a major or just more mature?20210927-140212.jpg

Edited by That_one_ant_guy, September 28 2021 - 6:27 PM.

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#6 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted September 30 2021 - 6:59 PM

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Okay well now I'm pretty confident we have a major on the way😁20210930_195803.jpg
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#7 Offline Dumpling - Posted October 1 2021 - 10:25 AM

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Okay well now I'm pretty confident we have a major on the wayattachicon.gif20210930_195803.jpg

big.


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#8 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted October 1 2021 - 1:14 PM

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Okay well now I'm pretty confident we have a major on the wayattachicon.gif20210930_195803.jpg

big.
lol

#9 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted October 12 2021 - 8:34 AM

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Sooo I checked up on her today and the major larvae is now a cocoon, and even though it's nearing winter, the queen doesn't care and produces eggs like CrAzY20211012_092718.jpg 20211012_092718~2.jpg so yea I estimate around 25ish eggs are there.
This'll concluded this update, cya😁
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#10 Offline Bigchungus2137 - Posted October 12 2021 - 10:15 AM

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Nice colony 👍
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#11 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted October 12 2021 - 4:51 PM

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Can't wait for that major to eclose!


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Been keeping ants since January of 2021

Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.

#12 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted November 14 2021 - 10:48 AM

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Wow, it's been awhile since I've updated this-busy with stuff-. Butttt the colony is at 24 workers, and the queen continues to lay more eggs, and nearly all the cocoons hatched 20211114_103823.jpg And her majesty looks majestic as usual20211114_104456.jpg
On a bad note, all the cocoons that I thought were majors, were actually just big minors. I also found out that there favorite food is spooders, they absolutely swarmed a spooler I gave them, and with an hour it's was hollowed out.
Welp that's about it cya👋
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#13 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted March 2 2022 - 5:02 PM

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Okayyy so it's been awhile since I've updated but something very surprising happend. So on January 6th the queen died :(, but she still had alot of workers and brood. I was going to realese them, but I read somewhere that workers that don't have a queen might except a new one, or something like that. I didn't really believe it but It was worth a shot so I bought another queen from Ecan, and each day I would add a few workers from the old colony to the new queen, and too my surprise they accepted each other, and now here they are :)20220302_165016.jpg
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Also I think I found there favorite food-crickets lol
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I also feel like giving the queen a name, any sugestions?

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#14 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted March 27 2022 - 9:14 AM

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Small update, but the queen has laid tons of eggs(most of which are already larvae), and they placed most of their brood on the water tower.
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Still looking for name suggestions for the queen🙂

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#15 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted April 18 2022 - 8:03 AM

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Update timeeee, the mini hearth xl had a mold outbreak(very surprising since they were very high quality) and a few workers passed away, I moved them into this ytong nest with two floors, and since I didn't have any spare outworlds I made my own DIY one20220418_084608.jpg it ain't the best but it'll do. The queen also laid another pile of eggs and most of the larvae have turned into pupae, still waiting to get a major though20220418_084821.jpg 20220418_084848.jpg And if anyone's wondering I feed them a full sized cricket every 5ish days, and give them full acces to ByFormica ant nector 24/7.20220418_084717.jpg not sure why the queen be looking so mad🤨
I'll probably be updating more often now since summer is starting up and they'll be growing faster

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#16 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted April 19 2022 - 1:46 PM

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whoa, angry mom...beware!


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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.




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