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Any Tips on keeping Solonopsis Fungax???

Started By SpikeyOls , Oct 20 2016 11:30 AM

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#1 Offline SpikeyOls - Posted October 20 2016 - 11:30 AM

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Any Tips on keeping Solonopsis Fungax???

#2 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted November 6 2016 - 9:12 AM

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Are you trying to start a colony from a single queen?

#3 Offline Serafine - Posted November 7 2016 - 3:00 PM

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Seal EVERYTHING. Use a lot of (nontoxic kitchen) silicone.

Solenopsis fugax workers are super tiny (1mm-3mm) and extremely hard to contain as they can squeeze through the smallest gaps. They can actually squeeze through the gaps between the plastics and the glass of AntsCanada hybrid nests (if not sealed with silicone). Not sure if they can squeeze through the airholes in AntKit nests but I would preemptively put Fluon on the ceiling areas around them.

Also they multiply very quickly like all Solenpsis so be prepared to expand their nest sort of soonish (good thing is they're very tiny so they don't require as much space as RIFA colonies).

Edited by Serafine, November 7 2016 - 3:01 PM.

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