ANTSTORE World of Ants

[miszt]

they shuld be fine, eventually they will settle down, but there will always be the occasional movement, as they are not really asleep, their body functions slow down so they cant do anything

[mpir]

@ciluvagyok

There used to be another Hungarian member in the english part of the forum - called Acerola I think. He had quite a good knoledge about ants and very good photos.

Tbh, I prefer see you guys around here where bigger public can benefit from your posts than to see you have "private" chats on the hungarian forum where maybe only a few people would read it.

No hard feelings, just my oppinion.

[ciluvagyok]

OK, but I was thinking that not all Hungarian people speak English... By the way, I'll post the Hungarian version on my blog so if somebody searches the google in Hun they may find miszt's care sheet and AntStore
In our country other species are well-known on terraristic topic, mainly spiders and other bigger insects, and no ant keepers. I'll search for Acerola, maybe there are others nearby who don't think I'm insane for having ants

Other topic: What do you think about AntWorks? I know that it's the worst to keep ants in that piece of rubbish, but is there any way to make people stop buying that jelly sh.t? I mean first I wanted to get one but sice I found this topic and you guys, and read some info about ants I realized how bad AntWorks is.

Anyway, I found a guy on the Net, he has very seriou installation, check this out:
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ant THAT'S what I call enthusiasm:
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What do you think?

[mpir]

@ciluismyname

Oh man, that is some instalation. I think that dude´s got some technical degree in formicarium building. He got a bit carried away I think but nice farms nevertheless. He put a lot of thought into it.

[ciluvagyok]

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year!!!!
I haven't seen you since ages!!

Question: is 5 celsius degrees too low for lasius niger? I mean my fridge is at this temperature and the ants move only a little tiny bit... I hope I'm not killing them with this temperature...

[SteveUK28]

I dont think so Ciluvagyok, Im sure its just fine

[JimmyVe]

5°c is just perfect.

[ciluvagyok]

thx
I can hardly wait to spring!!! I would extremely like to have the farm installed!!! It's SOOOOO hard to wait!!!

[Messorus]

Yes, it´s hard to wait, I´m look forward to this seazon very much.... I know Krungkuene.org, I want to have some set- up like this with my Crematogaster scutellaris... I mean bigg set- up in all of my room, but not so crazy like this guy have... I think for L. niger hybernation is 5°C in fridge allright! When I started with ants, was a Semptember, and winter come in October.. It was very difficult to wait for spring, for me, but I had luckyly found Temnothorax colony in one wood in my garden, and that stopped my boring time of ant keeping... Hehe... This time I´m very happy and waiting for next seazon....
Best regards Messorus

[SteveUK28]

I know what ya mean alll my ants are in hiberantion now.. Its good to know that when springs comes therre is gonna be a huge boom and they will be layin eggs like mad Saying that im thinking about some time later this year of gettin a nice easy exotic species

[Messorus]

Yes yes, I´m coming on exotic species now, I will get Ectatomma specie (ruidum) and Polyrhachis dives, or wolfi maybe.... But I also like our European too...

[ant dude]

yes winter can be a pain so......some exotics would do the trick lol.european is my favourite.......but i might start on some exotics next year as i am now quite intrested in them. not sure which one to get though as i am still deciding maybe Messor spec or some camponotus species or somthing like that

[JimmyVe]

I like hibernation time, 16 colonies are having a hibernation only 4 of them are awake, so i have it easier now.
Once you have big colonies you will be glad its hibernation.

[ant dude]

lol but i cant hibernate all of mine because some of them(1 at mo) are in aqaruims etc...only 1 colony is not hibernating, my rubra. i am aware of the life expextencey thing an that by the way but as it is heavy an that, i cannot carry in case of it breaking the(aqarium) and ants would be every where lol. and i'm not leaving my bedrm window open all winter ether, lol i/everyone else in my house would be freezing so u know i'm a bit stuck unless there in a testtube or a y-tong or somthing

[JimmyVe]

That is why i try to make my farms so light as possible. Easier to move.