yeah she has food, she was munching on a cricket yesterday washed down wiv sum honey, i recon it juz drownd
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 :(
I'm sorry to hear that miszt.
The shop has very kindly agreed to send me a replacement queen :D
Great, not much shops do this.
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
she looks fine, hope she will raise a nice colony for you. ;)
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
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 :)
;) not a bad idea, but in a few years you probably will need a big tank for this colony to.