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[SamKeepsAnts]

I was out today and I saw some temnothorax workers and found the acorn they lived in.This is my first colony and right now I'm housing them in a tha fortress formicarium outworld. will update with pics soon any basic tips on keeping temnothorax and can a mature colony live in a atom nest from tha?

[noebl1]

I have a Temnothorax queen and some nanitics. They eat pretty readily, but noticed they were very very resistant to relocating when water in their tube ran out.  I had attached them to a tiny outworld (3x3") with a fresh test tube for water.  However 1/2 the nanitics ended up dying as they refused to leave the original tube to forage for water.  I realized this too late (happened very fast), but before hibernation I removed them from their outworld connection and connected the tubes directly.   I'm not sure about SoCal since it's so much warmer, but read up here in the Northeast, very often a good portion of the colony freezes and dies in the winter, so they can rebound (we'll see this Spring.)

 

Mine seemed to eat pretty much anything I gave them; honey water, Byformica ant nectar, and even chicken scraps.

Edited by noebl1, December 10 2016 - 7:18 PM.

[Leo]

ninitics?

[noebl1]

ninitics?

Thanks, sorry a bit tired and typoed it... twice :-P

[Leo]

its ok

[Foogoo]

That's pretty amazing you noticed them considering how tiny the workers are. Whereabouts in Socal?