ANTSTORE World of Ants

[UneXisted]

I will receive my Pheidologeton diversus colony with 500+ workers this thursday. I will keep them in a sand/loam sand nest with the antfarm from antstore.


What do you guys think? I am reading that a lot of people have difficulties raising a P. diversus colony in an ytong nest. Besides, in a sand nest they can expand the nest by themself.

[JimmyVe]

Its is in deed very hard to keep these ants, also in a sand nest. I wish you good luck.

[UneXisted]

My colony has arrived.

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[bryguy97]

Wow!!! those are AWESOME ANTS!!!!!

[elmnt]

Such an amazing species. It is too bad I cannot get them as I'm in America.

[bryguy97]

I know! I want to get some too!!! But I'm in the U.S....

[JimmyVe]

They are in deed very nice ants.
I watched your viedeo's but i don't see any queen(s) ?

[UneXisted]

Yesterday i moved the colony to my sand/loam ant farm. During the rehousing some workers died because of the drought in the outside world. A lot of people warned me for this, now i can confirm it. It were not a lot of workers.

Right after they were set, they started to dig.

The setup consist of a 3L plastic box with an 30x20x6 antfarm from Antstore. I have not used the included lid, because of ventilation problems. I've made my own lid to avoid condensation problems.

The setup.


Outside world.


The antfarm.


This morning i noticed that they were moving the sands towards the PTFE stripe. I could have seen that coming. That might be a problem.

The PTFE problem.



Because of the PTFE problem i am already starting to brainstorm about a new setup.

Anyone has some idea's?

[UneXisted]

New video's.
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[UneXisted]

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[UneXisted]

Last night, when i was observing the colony a lot of workers suddenly appeared out of the nest. It was amazing. In just a few seconds about a hundred workers appeared to the surface. Just a few minutes before this event i placed several cruelly killed crickets in the antfarm. Unfortunately i wasn't able to film the event, because it happened all of a sudden. What you see now is what happened after they spotted the food.

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[undercoverAnt]

Still pretty interesting UneXisted. The more i read about these ants the more interesting they become. nice colony and really high quality video, what camera do you use?

best regards,

G

[UneXisted]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35

I recently figured out it had a video function on it. Also with macro in HD.

[undercoverAnt]

sweet, what a bit of luck, haha.

What other species do you keep? I am new to ants, after years of keeping other things, fish, reptiles, arachnids, mantids...etc. Are these ants from australia?

cheers,

Guy

[UneXisted]

These species are from Asia. Its one of the hardest species to keep.