Anyway, I wanted to take my time to properly document the move with good, detailed pictures but we were under the gun to complete the move before we take my son back to school. And I knew this was more than just a one man job. Here’s a picture of the XXXL before the move:
Here’s the mexicanus colony right before the move in their Pioneer XL formicarium:
And a couple of closeups:
I put the XL into a large plastic bin and then opened up the glass panel and top of the outworld. Then while I used a keyboard vacuum to suck up all the workers, my son used the THA specimen tweezer to transplant the repletes into the XXL. I had plugged up the outworld hole so I could dump all the workers into the outworld without them escaping. Here’s a pic of about 90% of all the workers in the XXXL outworld. The rest of the workers were stubborn to leave and I had to tweeze the rest out.
And finally the XXXL assembled in its spot on my ant shelf and a couple of closeups:
I have a couple cool videos too. I just have to figure out where to host them. I’ll post updated pictures as the colony grows into their new home. Again, thanks to Mack at THA for such an amazing custom formicarium and awesome customer service as usual. Thanks for looking!
Awesome nest and colony, looks great!
