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You never had any problems with them digging out of the y-tong ? My colony ( Messor barbarus ) dug out theres after 2 years. So i had to move them to a new nest area.
Very very nice! Your Messors are looking interesting, cause here they have just species like´s M. barbarus, sometimes M. sructor... I have M. barbarus colony, they are doing well now, still in small hybernation... They have about 80 workers and 3 sumbajors.. But there was about 110 workers time ago, however I´ve put them into ytong.... It have 6 cells, each 3cm x 8mm x 3cm size.... But it was also quite big for them and tube into arena was bigg too.. Some workers went into arena but they didn´t get back, cause they was scaried for tube scent or somethink.. So about 20 workers died...... but now are the ants doing very good :grin:
I had M. muticus queen too, but she was very strange and she ate her brood. She left just 3 larvaes, but they stopped growing....
Than I was keeping M. aegyptiacus, nice and quite quickly growing Messor species. Messor´s queens are somethimes laying and moving very strane(I saw my M. barbarus queen sleeping on her bottom of thorax in position in died ant, but then I made small shake and she normal standed up!) and this M. aegyptiacus was somethimes doing strange.. But I thought that it´s normal, that I don´t have enough experience with Messors.... But after 4 months at my home she died... I don´t know why.....
Your Messors are nice, photos are very good. Keep your good care at them. I prey you good luck in your other experience with ants :wink:
Your colony looks really healthy. Congratulations!
It is also interesting to see you do not cover your ant nest. Does it always expose to light? Or do they get stress when you switch on/off your light during night time?