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miszt: (10. Aug 2007 13:33)

yeah she has food, she was munching on a cricket yesterday washed down wiv sum honey, i recon it juz drownd

miszt: (11. Aug 2007 15:18)

I found the queen dead today :( i've had a look in the test tube, and its crawling with tiny white mites! not happy AT ALL. will be onto the shop I bought her from this afternoon to find out why theyr selling queens in this condition, also the cotton wool is very slimey, i suspect its full of bacteria :(

JimmyVe: (11. Aug 2007 18:07)

I'm sorry to hear that miszt.

miszt: (13. Aug 2007 18:57)

The shop has very kindly agreed to send me a replacement queen :D

JimmyVe: (13. Aug 2007 21:09)

Great, not much shops do this.

miszt: (18. Aug 2007 13:45)

My nu queen arrived today, looking very healthy and happy :) one worker also, 3 pups, 2 larvae and 3 eggs :D hopefully she will accept the few eggs from my dead queen aswell, but i'm not gona be to hopeful about that!

Great example of good'ol Royal Mail (UK) the box arrived completly snapped in half! the plastic test tube was very badly cracked, I usually prefer glass test tubes, but in this case I'm glad it was plastic otherwise the queen would have escaped and died :(


All good tho :D shes arrived, n i'm bak on track :D

JimmyVe: (19. Aug 2007 10:47)

she looks fine, hope she will raise a nice colony for you. ;)

miszt: (21. Aug 2007 14:31)

2nd worker hatched today, went to get me camera to film it but me gf has taken it to work! boo!

was great watching the queen and worker carefully unwrapping her from her coccon :D

miszt: (21. Aug 2007 23:17)

As these ant colonys grow so slowly, i've deiceded that the big tank is a bit pointless at the moment, so i've moved them into a small one (20x10x10) which i've made into a farm basin, gona use the big one for sum somthing else I think, maybe sum honey pot ants :)

JimmyVe: (22. Aug 2007 14:48)

;) not a bad idea, but in a few years you probably will need a big tank for this colony to.


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