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#1 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted November 7 2016 - 8:47 PM

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Damn it! I was picking up a wasted cricket left by my Myrmecocystus colony, and then my damn hand slipped. It made a freaking tunnel collapse in the natural dirt formicarium, and it collapsed right where the ants go back up to the surface. I need help urgently! Help please :( :( :(


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#2 Offline BMM - Posted November 7 2016 - 9:12 PM

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This is just my experience, but I've done the same thing with my Tetramorium and Tapinoma sessile workers and they pretty quickly rebuilt the tunnel.



#3 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted November 7 2016 - 9:24 PM

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It's already been solved xD


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#4 Offline Enderz - Posted November 7 2016 - 9:25 PM

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Nice :D

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#5 Offline FSTP - Posted November 7 2016 - 9:34 PM

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It's already been solved xD

how? what did you/they do?



#6 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted November 7 2016 - 10:14 PM

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dspdrew said that the ants will burrow their way out of this mess, and I remember this happening to my Solenopsis invicta colonies. Same thing happened. They dug out :). Not yet though...


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#7 Offline Serafine - Posted November 7 2016 - 10:50 PM

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Ants make sounds (by rubbing abdomen parts together) calling for help when they get burried so other ants nearby will come to help and dig them out.


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#8 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 8 2016 - 12:28 AM

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Where do you think that tunnel came from in the first place?


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#9 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted November 8 2016 - 7:16 AM

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Where do you think that tunnel came from in the first place?

True...


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#10 Offline MrPurpleB - Posted November 8 2016 - 7:36 AM

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Where do you think that tunnel came from in the first place?


I thought the tunnel collapsing was not a big deal, if it was dirt and just the surface tunnel.

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#11 Offline T.C. - Posted November 8 2016 - 9:55 AM

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Where do you think that tunnel came from in the first place?


I thought the tunnel collapsing was not a big deal, if it was dirt and just the surface tunnel.

 

It's not, when i was just a noob... I used to use the gel ant farms and once the gel got old and moldy, I used dirt in the ant farm. Sometimes when I moved it the tunnels collapsed. However they always found their way out.


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