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#1 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted September 3 2024 - 12:16 PM

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Other than ant keeping, what is your longest lasting hobby/interest? Mine is Godzilla, I've been a fan for 6 years.

I've also kept reptiles for 10 years.


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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 


#2 Offline AntsTx - Posted September 3 2024 - 2:21 PM

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My hobby is keeping leopard geckos. I've always been fascinated by how they hunt and make their burrows. Although it's not my longest hobby, it's definitely my favorite one besides antkeeping. I decided to get one about a year and a half ago and I've loved the experience.

For anyone wanting another hobby besides antkeeping I recommend keeping leopard geckos.


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Currently Keeping:

Camponotus texanus x2                                             Pheidole obtusospinosa - 2 workers

Camponotus vicinus - 15-20 workers                         Solenopsis xyloni x7 - Batch of eggs

Camponotus pennsylvanicus - 95-100 workers         Pheidole lamia - 4 workers                                                                                                                                 

Dorymyrmex bureni - 3 workers

Formica spp. - 5 workers

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis x2

Neoponera villosa x15

Crematogaster lineolata x5 - 75-100 workers 


#3 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted September 3 2024 - 3:03 PM

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“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#4 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted September 3 2024 - 5:40 PM

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I've been playing soccer for 6+ years and I've been keeping birds for almost 5 years


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 


#5 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted September 6 2024 - 2:16 PM

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I've also kept carnivorous plants for 3+ years


 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 


#6 Offline Stubyvast - Posted September 6 2024 - 2:56 PM

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I've been writing books and stuff for at least 6+ years. I've also played minecraft for 9+ years...still gotta get into that redstone stuff haha


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Currently raising: 

Myrmica rubra (1 queen +  ~5 workers)

Lasius niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

Lasius neoniger (3 single queen + brood)

Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Formica pacifica (Queen)

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!


#7 Offline rptraut - Posted September 7 2024 - 8:26 AM

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Hello Everyone;

 

I've probably had more hobbies and had them longer than most of you merely because of my age.    When I was nine or ten years old, I had a book about Japan with a picture of a bonsai tree, and I was intrigued.   I tried to grow a small maple tree in an acorn and another in half a grapefruit.   Around the same time, I tried keeping ants in a makeshift ant farm that I'd made by putting a small jar inside a larger one.    I was never able to find a queen.   Both my attempts to grow bonsai trees and keep ants were dismal failures.   To be honest, sixty years ago there were no videos, websites or even books about these subjects, so information about both hobbies was almost non-existent.    About forty years ago, I was able to buy a small dwarf juniper tree that was genetically smaller than a normal juniper, and my bonsai hobby began in earnest.   As more information became available and my experience increased, I accumulated more and more trees.    I now have 25 trees, everything from maples to junipers of various ages and sizes.   

 

 

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I still have the dwarf juniper I bought forty years ago; it's still less than a foot tall.

 

 

 

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Bonsai trees are kept small by various forms of pruning and training, but they still exhibit all the characteristics of a full-size tree.   They flower, produce fruit of normal size, and change colour in the fall if they're deciduous.   

 

 

 

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I don't pot up every tree in spring, many of them are pruned and trained as I would any other bonsai tree, but I grow them in my garden.    This way I can grow a larger number of trees without all the work of watering them every day or two like a potted tree.   

 

 

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I display the potted trees on our deck, picnic table and some are displayed in the house as well.

 

Now you know why I use a photo of a bonsai tree as my thumbnail.    Keeping ants is something I've wanted to do since I was a kid, but growing bonsai trees is the hobby that I've actually done the longest.

 

If you're interested to see more about how I grow my bonsai trees, please watch this video.     

RPT


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My father always said I had ants in my pants.

#8 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 7 2024 - 5:18 PM

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RPT, your trees are truly amazing! I’ve been training an American elm tree for eight years now. It’s looking ok now, but nothing like your trees.
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#9 Offline rptraut - Posted September 8 2024 - 12:38 AM

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Thanks ANTdrew;

 

I grow a wide variety of bonsai trees, but I've always been a little wary of American Elm as we have big problems with Dutch Elm Disease.   About 25 years ago I bought a Korean Hornbeam, Carpinus turkzaninowii, I believe, it's very similar in looks to American Elm.   It was about 25 years old when I got it and it's one of my favourite trees, now about 50 years old.   

 

 

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This is my Korean Hornbeam after a round of spring pruning and repotting.   The foliage thickens quite a bit over summer, it takes regular pinching back and pruning to keep it this size.  The pot's homemade because I'm not willing to pay the price of very large clay bonsai pots when I have a woodworking shop where I can make "wooden pots" quite cheaply.   I unpot all my hardy trees in the fall and plant them in the garden for the winter with my other trees.   We have large windbreaks, so the trees are often covered with snow and survive the winter quite nicely.  My tropical trees, mostly figs specially selected for use as bonsai like Ficus benjamina "Toolittle", spend the winter under grow lights in the house.   

RPT

 

 


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My father always said I had ants in my pants.

#10 Offline Ernteameise - Posted September 8 2024 - 1:39 AM

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OMG, these bonsais are amazing!

 

Well, actually, since I have been playing with ants since I can remember, kept them in my youth and only came back to them recently, I think antkeeping IS indeed my longest hobby!


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#11 Offline mbullock42086 - Posted September 13 2024 - 5:23 PM

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 I'm an artist.  havent really drawn anything recently though, just not much motivation.

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  a concept of a scorpion that had become truly aquatic. 

   The pectines are now used in swimming and respiration, but still function as a chemoreception tool.

  the tarsal claws have become elongate and hook-like, to ensure a good grip on fish.

the fourth pair of legs has become laterally flattened- functioning much like the swimming legs of Predaceous diving beetles.

  The metasoma is largely the same, though carinae have broadened and flattened to function as a caudal fin.

  Swimming is tri-modal, pectines allow for hovering and slow stalking, whilst legbeats and tail flicks are used during rapid swimming.


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#12 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted September 13 2024 - 10:14 PM

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I played basketball for 9 years. I always grew up watching Kobe Bryant so I decided around 2015 in 4th grade to start playing. Played on my high school team for all 4 years and played on Varsity for 2 of those. Don't play as much now, but I'll still play at my gym every week.


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#13 Offline Pogonomatt - Posted September 14 2024 - 6:50 AM

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I’ve been keeping ants almost 40 years, but I guess botany is another hobby (30 years) - orchids and other weird exotics. Art used to be a hobby, but that’s now my job


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Camponotus cruentatus (2022), fedtschenkoi (2022), fedtschenkoi Dark morph (2023), foreli (2022), maculatus (2022), micans (2022)

Lasius flavus

Messor barbarus Bicolour (2014), barbarus Red Head (2018), capitatus (2010), wasmanni (2014)
Pogonomyrmex badius (2024), barbatus (2024), californicus bicolor (2024), californicus concolor (2024), rugosus (2024)

#14 Offline Full_Frontal_Yeti - Posted September 14 2024 - 7:46 AM

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I think gaming in general has been a life long hobby.
All games. Solo/multiplayer, Co-op/PvP, video/tabletop. And almost all genres, from puzzle games, to action/FPV, real time/turn based, RPGs/sims

 

But of all gaming table top role play games have to be my number one, if not longest running of all gaming.
I got the red/blue book box set a bit too young at like 9 or 10 maybe. But I been on and off IRL or VTT RP gaming for better than 40 years now.
I may actually have enough of it going on in my life right now too with 2 games as PC and one as GM forming now.
With one of those 2 PC games being one of the best of my life as a single campaign going now for about a year and a half(which now includes a real bestie from my first RP group in jr.high).

And the only other topper to that now was my own 3 year run with a group as GM of their epic crew (some of them i still know and play with).

 

And thanks for making me think of the answer to this question. Life looks super deluxe wow for me these days i need to be extra grateful.


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#15 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted September 14 2024 - 1:53 PM

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I've also been a Star Wars fan for some 5 years.


Edited by AntsGodzilla, September 14 2024 - 1:53 PM.

 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 


#16 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted September 14 2024 - 8:46 PM

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I've been alive for my whole life


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#17 Offline bmb1bee - Posted September 14 2024 - 9:44 PM

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a concept of a scorpion that had become truly aquatic. 

Have you heard of eurypterids by any chance?


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#18 Offline bmb1bee - Posted September 14 2024 - 9:47 PM

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If you're interested to see more about how I grow my bonsai trees, please watch this video.

I must say, growing bonsai trees is truly an underrated hobby. Thanks for sharing and please keep up the great work, those maples look great!


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"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee, his eyes can't hit what the eyes can't see."
- Muhammad Ali

Check out my shop and cryptic ant journal! Discord user is bmb1bee if you'd like to chat.

Also check out my YouTube channel: @bmb1bee


#19 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted September 15 2024 - 11:43 AM

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If you're interested to see more about how I grow my bonsai trees, please watch this video.

I must say, growing bonsai trees is truly an underrated hobby. Thanks for sharing and please keep up the great work, those maples look great!

 

I'm thinking about trying to grow some bonsai trees. :lol:


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“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#20 Offline dboeren - Posted September 23 2024 - 12:17 PM

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I've been collecting and playing pinball machines for over 25 years so far.  I've also been into miniature wargames for around 16 years.


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