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Colobopsis eggs are not hatching

Started By SYUTEO , Jun 28 2021 1:17 AM

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#1 Offline SYUTEO - Posted June 28 2021 - 1:17 AM

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It's been over a month and the eggs still haven't hatched, I did see some eggs are starting to darken but it's been a while since that happened and nothing has changed. What should I do? How can I tell if the eggs are going to hatch?

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#2 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 28 2021 - 2:36 AM

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It's been over a month and the eggs still haven't hatched, I did see some eggs are starting to darken but it's been a while since that happened and nothing has changed. What should I do? How can I tell if the eggs are going to hatch?

Maybe she's been eating them. Or they could be like trap jaws which take 20+ days

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#3 Offline SYUTEO - Posted June 28 2021 - 2:50 AM

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It's been over a month and the eggs still haven't hatched, I did see some eggs are starting to darken but it's been a while since that happened and nothing has changed. What should I do? How can I tell if the eggs are going to hatch?

Maybe she's been eating them. Or they could be like trap jaws which take 20+ days

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Possibly, but the eggs haven't changed much in over a month and possibly longer, and this species only take about one month to hatch.