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Hey guys , here are a few pictures i took last night , the colony is still doing great and the fungus almost fills the container. :grin: I will be trying to take a piece of fungus soon and see if they will start a second garden in anouther container.
Heres the pics :)
Fungus doing really well
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One of many piles of larvae on the fungus garden
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Notice the light coloured new workers behind , theres more emerging each day.
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Workers still cutting and working hard 8)
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Hope you like :grin:
Adam
Looking good the fungus has grown loads . Hows the humidity going you not using any heat mats or lamps? :P
Hello Antone
I dont use lights or heat matts , only lights i use are the ones to light up the containers for viewing, these are only extremly low watt and too high above to provide heat. Humidity is somthing i dont add to anymore, while the colony was small i use to put a few small drops of water onto the tile untill i would see a little puddle underneith. But now the fungus almost fills the container i just add leaves and let the moisture from the cut leaves add the moisture to the fungus when the ants add it.
Because i didnt heat the setup i always make sure i purchase my ants during summer.So my home stays warm due to warm weather :D . I find by the time autumn , winter comes like now , the weather outside is getting colder , but my house heating is enought and the fungus large enought to provide warmth to keep the colony active and fungus happy :grin:
Regards
Adam
Hey guys well i succesfully got them to establish two fungus gardens. I had to transfer alot more fungus then i wanted too but the ants have now added leaves to both gardens which is great.
I have added a few more pictures , hope you enjoy
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More larva and pupae , new workers aswell :P
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Second fungus garden 8)
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Queen fungus being rebuilt
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Her royal antness
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Worker feeding queen a tropic egg
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Looks like they are doing great so far :grin:
Adam
Nice pics, Adam. ;)
It's great to hear that your colony is doing great.
My Camponotus ligniperdus are doing great too (they are about 60 workers, lots of majors) - 1 dead worker in every 2 weeks, lots of eggs and larvea, dug a nest in humus. :D
I also caught a Lasius flavus queen who now has eggs. :)
Good luck with your Atta.
Hello Jbc , thankyou for your comments , its great when our colonys are doing so well.
goodluck with your colonys too
Regards
Adam :grin:
Any updates Adam? The garden must be large now
Hello Bugsy , im afraid not the fungus garden didnt grow very large during summer as i had hoped , so its been suffereing due to the lack of fresh leaves.Also i have had a major blow last week to the colony i went away for a few weeks and my boiler broke so no heating , when i came back the ants very hardly moving , i have moved them to a incubator at 25 c to try and get the colony to build up again, i must have about 40 workers from the few hundred a month ago :cry:
Will keep everyone updated , i just hope they pull throu , the queen seems ok thou. :)
Regards
Adam
Surely its cheaper and less risky to purchase a heat matt with a thermostat. Even just using it on an empty chamber will allow the heat to flow through then they can move or stay if they want. Hope all goes well mate, glad to hear the queen is still alive and well tho. Keep us posted.
Hello Bugsy yes i did try this but it caused way too much condensation , at least with the incubator it doesent. But hopfully things will be good now and they will pick up , i have spotted what looks like a small bunch of eggs by the queen so hopfully they will start leaf cutting soon :)
Regards
Adam