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by **SteveUK28** on Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:44 pm

i use a wall paper scrapper myself.. and tweezers to get out any big bits of food left in there.

by **JimmyVe** on Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:19 pm

yep, clean out the food (the ants don't eat) and clean up the death workers and all the stuff they put out on the garbage pail.

by **Moiser** on Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:27 pm

Hey Guys,

Well its been awhile since I've posted so I thought I would write a quick update. The ants appear to be happy, I've started to feed them cold meat on a daily basis. The are still not very active in the day time, will this change as the colony grows? Another question I have is about the second batch of eggs that were laid some time in June, they don't seem to have grown much and its been around two months. The queen is still guarding them, which I presume she wouldn't if they weren't going to hatch???

My last question is regarding the drinking trough, I've not seen any ants drinking from it. Does the drinking trough in the picture look suitable??

Thanks Guys,
Dave

by **JimmyVe** on Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:16 pm

Yes you can use that one.

by **Lewis** on Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:59 pm

my Camponotus ligniperda queen is doing great she has 4 cocoons and a big bunch of small larvae one of the cocoons is doing very well and i can now see the outline of the ant inside

by **JimmyVe** on Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:44 pm

Nice to hear Lewis. Keep up the good work.

by **Lewis** on Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:17 pm

one of the cocoons hatched last night!!!!!

and one of the others should hatch some time soon and it is massive compared with the others!!

my colony consists of:
1 very fat queen
1 natic worker
3 cocoons
and about 15 small larvea

lewis

by **Moiser** on Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:09 am

Hey Guys,

I've not seen much of the ants at all... I know they are still alive. The second batch of eggs still haven't hatched yet. Could they have gone into hibernation?

Thanks Guys,
Dave

by **JimmyVe** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:17 pm

It could be, hibernation period starts about now. What is the temperature in the farm ?

by **Moiser** on Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:06 am

Hey Jimmy,

The temp is still 25C in the day and 23C at night.

by **JimmyVe** on Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:12 pm

The temperature seems a little high for them to go into hibernation but it could be. If they are not very active lower the temperature slowly so they can go into hibernation. I'm only worried about the eggs, most of the time they will not survive hibernation, but its a little late to let them hatch before hibernation.

by **Rashan** on Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:35 pm

hey,

perhaps she digged a small hole under a stone or something an now she could be under the sand...

could be she shouldend be devaporated

(you can post me mistakes in language in personal messanges to improv my english)

by **Lewis** on Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:41 pm

my colony now have 3 workers and a lot of baby larvea and the queen

by **Moiser** on Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:03 pm

Hey Guys,

I thought my colony's test tube was getting a bit dry, so I put together a new one. I've covered the new tube and removed the cover from the old. Its been in around a day now but they don't seem too interested. I guess I just have to wait it out... Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks Guys,
Dave

by **insanebe** on Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:33 am

JimmyVe wrote:It could help if you take the old food out sooner, than you will have less mites because they have less food.
I feed my ants every 2 days and once a week i clean out the out world. There are mites to but not much, when i see there are more mites coming i clean the outworld 2 times a week.

i don't clean my "multi species community basin" anymore because the pheidole take it all away lol, dead ants of the other species, left overs everything, they are like little cleaners

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