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Greg's (Old) Acromyrmex versicolor Journal (Discontinued)

Started By Gregory2455 , Sep 28 2014 3:27 PM
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#41 Offline Alza - Posted October 6 2014 - 10:52 PM

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Update 


#42 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 6 2014 - 10:54 PM

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I will when something happens.


#43 Offline Tpro4 - Posted October 7 2014 - 5:43 AM

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You said another Queen hit the dust
Remember Dragon Warrior, anything is possible when you have inner peace. - Master Shifu

Current Queens:
1 Unknown Pogomyemex
1 Solenopsis Xyloni

#44 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 7 2014 - 7:02 PM

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#45 Offline Alza - Posted October 8 2014 - 3:29 PM

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no fungus


#46 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 8 2014 - 3:43 PM

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I know, not yet.


#47 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 9 2014 - 4:30 PM

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Recontiniued! :D

Update 10/9/2014

Well, I now have four queens again, and fungus thanks again to Drew. :yahoo: This time I will be more careful, and I am going to get agar over the weekend. There will be no failiure accepted this time. If I see one quen is not caring for it, by 24 hours, a different queen will be in there.


#48 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 10 2014 - 12:42 AM

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More fungus! :D


#49 Offline Tpro4 - Posted October 10 2014 - 5:47 AM

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Once it gets bigger, do what drew did to the fungus
Remember Dragon Warrior, anything is possible when you have inner peace. - Master Shifu

Current Queens:
1 Unknown Pogomyemex
1 Solenopsis Xyloni

#50 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 10 2014 - 7:35 AM

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Drew did not do anything with his fungus, the fungus is the work of the ants. :)


#51 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 10 2014 - 7:43 AM

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ll of these are rejects except for one. :(

 

But as long as that one is fertile, then that is enough! :D


#52 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 10 2014 - 9:17 AM

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Is that all that was left of the fungus, what's in the video?


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#53 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 10 2014 - 9:44 AM

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Yeah, they were pretty hungry again, although there is a lot of substrate on the one that did not reject the fungus.

#54 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 10 2014 - 10:40 PM

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Update: 10/10/2014

This is not an update, but CHECK THIS OUT!!! So two or so weeks ago, (when I still had the last fungus) my single non-reject queen fell over into mushy, wet, moist chiclid pellets, and got it all over the left side of her gaster. Well today, I saw this! :yahoo: Her fungus growing on the side of her gaster. Apparently this happens in the wild too, and I know a lot of people (including myself) have brought home queens in hopes of them having this:

 

Fungus Update:

Plenty of substrate has seemed to be added, and new fuzzy hairs are growing on it. :)


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#55 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 11 2014 - 12:41 AM

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Yeah, a couple of my queens had what looked like white afros growing on their thorax. The fungus garden is lookin' good.


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#56 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 11 2014 - 3:44 PM

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Another reject queen died today. :( If I would not have gotten a few more from Drew, I would be down to only the one you see in the above pictures.


Also, the fungus seems a bit less fuzzy today. :(


#57 Offline Alza - Posted October 11 2014 - 4:07 PM

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wait so how many are there ? and when its less fuzzy is that bad ?


#58 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 11 2014 - 4:29 PM

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I have three left, and it is not ideal when it is not fuzzy, but the fungus growing on her is super fuzzy! :D


#59 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 11 2014 - 9:45 PM

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That the hell is this!? This is the most vibrantly colored bacteria I have ever seen. It may be the same bacteria that turns some of my test tube water pink? :thinking:​ Well this time it is growing in the substrate of the non-reject queen's test tube!  :excl:  :excl:  :excl: Tell me this is not dangerous. The substrate itself is brown, all the pink-red-violet you see is the bacteria /slime mold/ mold/ unidentified organism.

 


#60 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 11 2014 - 9:54 PM

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Well, the queen and fungus are moved now, hopefully it did not follow them into the new test tube.  :panic:


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