These are hands down the hungriest, thirstiest, messiest ants on my shelf and I absolutely love them. Nest mate needs refilled every other day, test tube with water and THA liquid feeder with water need refilled weekly.
The tall liquid feeder currently has sugar water, I switch between that and sunburst. They love both, don’t seem to have a preference. I let them go ~24 hours when I switch their liquid carb so they swarm it when I put it back in. With the liquid carb feeder far enough from their entrance, they don’t try and bury it or stuff it full of garbage.
Favorite seed is dandelion, they’ll stock up and leave other seeds behind. They treat dandelion seeds like my harvester ants. Totally indiscriminate w protein. Flightless fruit flies and chunks of meal worm are accepted equally enthusiastically. Gave them some bacon fat, they really seemed to enjoy that.
Also, every time I’ve needed to move them, they have been incredibly cooperative. It’s never taken any effort or any coercion to get them to move. I simply introduce them to their new nest and within hours they relocate.
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