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[NorthernAnts]

Hallo everyone! I am making this journal to share my journey and experiments with Tetramorium Bicarinatum. So, I first got these ants back on July 4th, 2024. Now you may be thinking to yourself: He might have a thousand or more workers in the colony (since they grow really fast), but thanks to my stupidity they did not. A few months ago, before Christman, I had found their queen left with only five worker ants in my three-gallon tank experiment (details on that later). But thanks to their fast growth and resilience, I have managed to now (in 5/9/2025) have the colony at about one hundred workers strong with a massive brood pile. 

[NorthernAnts]

When the colony first came, they had three queens, with less than seventy workers. I left them outside in my garage for a week to four weeks before putting them into a 256-gallon terrarium. For some reason I thought this was a great idea. But when I actually did it, I thankfully recaptured one of the queen ants with five workers, just in case something ever happened. At first the colony was doing really great in their new tank (which was outside in the really hot summer), and they ate multiple brown crickets (small species). After around three to four weeks, I noticed that they weren't active as much at their nest, which was up against the giant stem of a plant. After a while I lost hope and they never came back up for food, so a month later I dug up a little bit but that reveled nothing, so I gave up. It also rained afterwards of me trying to dig them up, so I now knew that they were for sure dead, and I never looked back. (Then I put a T. Immigrants colony in it.)