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[ThePygmyMammoth]

I have a young colony of Veromessor Pergandei and I think they're ready to move. However they are in a small starter formicarium with no place to connect tubing and the ants can't easily scale the walls. Does anyone have suggestions as to how to move them?

[Bracchymyrmex]

Could you provide some more information about the formicarium and colony (How big is their formicarium? Approximately how many workers are there?) Pictures could also be useful. People on this forum love to help, but they can't if you provide such a small amount of information.

[ThePygmyMammoth]

Unfortunately any time I try posting a picture, it tells me that I don't have permission to do so. If it helps, I would like to move them into an Ants Canada Omnibest. The starter formicarium is a small acrylic box with a small nest chamber at the center. Both the nest chamber and overall starter formicarium have removable lids. The colony has about 14 workers and a good sized brood pile.

[ThePygmyMammoth]

Omninest not omnibest. The omninest is also attached to a smallish outworld.

[Flubby100]

If you have the omni nest small, it will not fit in the outworld. No hole at all even at the lid part?

[ThePygmyMammoth]

There is a hole in the lid, but the workers struggle to climb the walls and I doubt that they'd be able to get the queen and brood up them. It is an omninest large, but the formicarium won't fit in the outworld

[Kevin]

Drill a hole into the starter nest and connect the tubing that way. Also, I couldn't recommend the omninest less, might want to think twice about using it.

[Kevin]

Double posted, snip.

Edited by Kevin, May 11 2017 - 2:44 AM.

[Jelly]

I have the same formicarium you do. Just drain the water, place it in the out world, then remove the lid.

If you still have trouble with them climbing the walls just build a ramp out of cardboard or something.

[ThePygmyMammoth]

I thought about that but it doesn't fit in the outworld I have
Maybe I'll buy a larger one

[iXvXi]

Maybe gently tilt the formicarium on its side. It's pretty tough trying to visualize without pictures unfortunately to suggest a viable solution.

Best of luck!

[ThePygmyMammoth]

Thanks for the advice, my plan now is to temporarily use a large tupperware container as an outworld and I'll put the formicarium in that, then once the colony moves into the new nest, I'll switch to the permanent outworld