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[Shareallicu]

I ordered 1000 ants online to use to test custom formicariums for my queen so all goes smoothly when I put my Formica queen into the formicariums. 

 

The harvester ants are doing as well as expected, living their lives out in their new home.   They are going through cold weather now 50-65 F weather since I am trying to keep my place cold enough for my queen to hibernate.  It also saves on electricity, and I have a lot of blankets for me!

 

The harvesters are slowing down, but love sugar water!  I gave them shrimp today and they seem to relaly like that too!  I have given them  so much food to see what they like.  They are known to like seeds, but don’t care for them when they have other foods around.  I even gave them some baby food (chicken!).  They like sandwich meat lol

Anyway, they are showing me how I need to improve the formicariums I make so that when my queen starts her colony, I will have the best home for her and her colony!

 

I also saved the harvesters from being sent to a lizard this way!  hehe

 

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n23/shareallicu/Water%20view.jpg

[Connectimyrmex]

Cool! any queen pics?

[Kevin]

Cool! any queen pics?

He said it was only 1000 workers.

Very big mold, that must have taken a lot of grout haha... What did you make your water tower out of?

[Shareallicu]

Cool! any queen pics?

Unfortunately, no.  I ordered the ants out of state, so i couldn't get a queen

[Shareallicu]

 

Cool! any queen pics?

He said it was only 1000 workers.

Very big mold, that must have taken a lot of grout haha... What did you make your water tower out of?

 

I'm a she

 

Yup it took a lot of grout!  I made the water tower out of a plastic container with mesh glued to the top so the ants wouldn't fall in.  Some of the grout also covered the mesh sporadically so it worked out awesomely! 

 

I just made another one; a large square one and a queen inclusion chamber formicarium today too!  I hope my queen ant (not with this colony) likes it!  they should be dry tomorrow!

[Connectimyrmex]

Oh shame that there aren't any queens .

 

Did you get one of the harvester ant packs from one of those ant shops?

 

Also Kevin I thought that she meant there was a queen.

[Kevin]

Sorry haha, I just "assumed your gender"

[T.C.]

Sure would be cool if you had the queen. I must say it is not the prettiest formicarium I have ever seen. But as far as I am concerned whatever works, roll with it.

[Shareallicu]

Oh shame that there aren't any queens .

 

Did you get one of the harvester ant packs from one of those ant shops?

 

Also Kevin I thought that she meant there was a queen.

Yeah!  i just ordered the ants that people feed to lizards.   

Sorry haha, I just "assumed your gender"

No problem

[Shareallicu]

Sure would be cool if you had the queen. I must say it is not the prettiest formicarium I have ever seen. But as far as I am concerned whatever works, roll with it.

Yeah I would love to find a queen!  I think these ants are cute and have attitude, which I love!

 

I'm not very good at making things pretty, but I am good at making things work so I'm happy