Skippy: (25. Aug 2007 15:05)

Nice young colony miszt ... your ants collection groing very fast ... day and day ,more and more ants ! :lol:

Yes ,you must use bigger tank as arena ,when colony will be bigger :) ,it is only good for ants ,ants like big region to searching food and walking on sunlight :)

Skippy

miszt: (23. Sep 2007 18:24)

Decieded to make a Ytong nest, as i wanted to test out a humidification idea :) n its working nicly, colony is doing very well, 5 workers, 12 eggs and 4 Larvae :D

http://www.misztikal.com/ants/CIMG1614.jpg

Humidification system highlighted (am also using a trough while i test it, just incase it doesnt work well enough)

http://www.misztikal.com/ants/i03we5trgh.jpg

Queen, Workers n Brood :)

sithmaster676: (23. Sep 2007 19:18)

nice looking setup and colony there i hope they go well for you
Sithmaster676

miszt: (23. Sep 2007 19:52)

they are great ants to keep :D really nice to watch the solical interaction as they are so big, can almost hear them sitting round discussing the whats gonna happen in the next episode of Eastenders

mpir: (24. Sep 2007 11:18)

The "Ytong" you use looks way more like concrete and not like Ytong. Not much bubles in the material. It must be much harder to work on like on brittle Ytong.

miszt: (24. Sep 2007 13:56)

Ytong is a brand of Areated Concrete :)

yeah it does apear to have less bubbles, but it doesnt :) just that my hoover broke while i was making it, so allot of the holes got filled in with dust and it stuck when i washed it, just as good tho :) humidity levels are fine

JimmyVe: (25. Sep 2007 14:52)

Nice farm. Good pictures to. Keep up the good work. ;)

4mykids: (5. Okt 2007 15:32)

Really nice shots miszt.

She is a keeper for sure -

Good luck & enjoy :)

miszt: (12. Jan 2008 15:35)

I was sent an unwanted Queen a while ago, having been working my way thru The Ants, I discovered that Camp herc queens often live together, so I have combined the two, so far so good! I've done this in the fridge, to reduce the chance of fighting, once they are settled together, there should be no problems, eventually, each queen will setup its own section of the nest, and will no longer interact, but considering this is such a slow growing species, 2 queens will always be better than one :)

JimmyVe: (12. Jan 2008 18:48)

Didn't knew that, are you sure they can live together ? It would be nice but i never heard of that before. Most of the time it goes well until the worker hatch that is the time queens fight. Hope you are wright. ;)

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