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The best way to see if it is a major is the head. They have much bigger heads than the minors. ;)
thankyou Jimmy, can i assume you have had a short break away, I thought it strange I didnt hear from you sir......
Off topic: It's been a bit busy lately (work and building a house) so i do not have much free time, like i used to. ;) But i try coming here every day. ;) (i'm addicted)
Hello guys, well today i noticed that my ants have began to knaw their way through the plaster/sand nest i made :roll: and looking at it closely i can see they have indeed been at it for some time, i just didnt see it, it's quite obviouse to see that they will soon be through it, enabling them to escape into the back of the glass tank, where i will not be able to see/observe them.
So to save myself a whole lot of trouble, i purchased a new gypsum nest with 6 chambers and antstores newly listed glass corner formicarium 40x40x20cm + lid, they should arrive in a few days time. But my question is, how do you suggets i move them all, i remeber the last time i had to move them, there was only 8 including the queen, which was soo stressfull (for me) now i have 50+ :? i am quite worried about this, so any help/tips/advise i would really apreciate....
I guess this will be the last time i ever need to bother them direct, as the nests and basins from antstore all have inter linking capabilities, so as my colony grows, instead of moving, i can just very easily add more nests/basins :wink:
a new gypsum nest u say is it the one from ant store :?:
sorry i cant really help with this but i havent ever had to move my ants so i dont really know how to go about this,sorry :-k
the best way to do it, is to just conect it up, and wait for them to move by themselves, forcing them to move will stress them out allot
let the plaster nest dry out, and keep the gypsum nest warm, dark and moist, and the plaster one dry, cold and fully lit, they will move eventually :)
@antdude, yeah its the one from antstore
@miszt, hmm i cannot see this way being possible, there is no way i can connect the new to the old, without them all escaping..!
hmm actually now i think, perhaps i could poke the plastic tube down the actual entrance of thier borrow in my tank, this way they would only have access to the tube and into the new nest, and not the foroging area, and like you suggest taking the front cardboard off making it bright, and keeping the the new dark....yes i can see this could work.... thankyou.. =D>
well, my order came today an i ordered this Gypsum nest 6+1 chambers to keep my rubras in temperely until christmas, when i order an nice starter set from them.anyway it is rather small i was very supprised by this. when i saw it not much room in there the tunnels are about 1cm, plus this cant really fit many ants in.
what size are your ants/queen? they may not be able to fit in the gypsum nest : :roll:
i hope they can fit though and it all works out and they move to there new nesting site :)
indeed you might find this too small, however, you will find your ants should love it, this 6+1 gypsum chamber nest is almost the same size as the actual plaster/sand nest i made for mine, and the my tunnels are also about 1cm thick, though i can see that the antsore one is going to be much easier to mientain, and like i said, they can easily be added too as the colony grows.
Hello, wow so my new corner glass formicarium arrived from antstore yesterday, and it is reall fantastic, for me and the ants !!
instead of using the 6+1 chamber gypsum nest i also orderd, i decided i would try and make a new plaster nest, without adding sand, as this is why i think they where able to chew through the other one, any ways, i have completed it, and they moved out swiftly over night.. so i guess they are really impressed, it has a fitted venilated lid, so this time its accessible much easier, and a huge surface area it bieng 40x40 cm with a huge almost 60cm front (its corner shaped so triangular) and 20cm high, so i thought im sure i can make another nest to fit, just using diferent dimensions for the actuall chambers and passages.
This time remebering i only have a 3" hight restriction, but a 17" width area to work with, i decided the chambers needed to be less round when viewd from the front and more deeper. Bearing this in mind, i set about moulding the plastercine until i was happy. As you look at the finished nest, it appears as 2 parallel passeges, with a slight variental chamber size, however, on closer inspection, you notice that the chambers are deeper, which i think makes for a better set up for my colony, it only stands to reason that out in the wild, they would build a nest in a simular way, horizontally, needing deeper rather than high chambers. Its doubled the size of thier foraging area also, allowing me to add more greenry in the form of plastic plants.
My only problem guys is, i cannot find my dam camera.....i have searched the house high and low, and i just cannot find it.... i think its in the car, i will check out later, and get up some pictures, cuz i know yuor gonna ask.!!