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Thankyou Gortello :)
Well guys todays the day my colony has arrived , they are in a small plastic tub and have a small fungus garden, its about the size of a walnut :) , There are alot of workers and one Active queen :P , also there is one soldier :shock:. Well i will upload pictures over the weekend but for now i just watch them in there tub , im at work so cannot move them into the setup untill tonight. :( .
Anyways guys , will add pictures and update soon :grin:
Greetings
Adam
Congrats Adam, i'm dead jealous :)
Hey Andie cheers buddy :).
Well Guys i finally managed to get my ants into my setup last night. Took awhile and also took the use of a bent spoon and a fine paint brush. I have changed the queen container setup from four linked containers to just one as i felt due to seeing the actual size of her when i got them the four containers linked were far to roomy and i could lose her if she burrowed into the fungus garden. So i have added one which gives her more then enought room. :D
On opening the container they were deliverd in the queen curled up in the fungus garden and the workers raced to where the intrusion was ( my fingers lol ) :o. I used a bent spoon to slide under the fungus garden while sweeping it with the fine brush into the spoon with the queen curled up, i then lowered this into there new home and gently brushed them off. It was then a long hours work off slowly brushing up the many workers onto thebrush and tapping them onto the fungus garden. After a hour all had been done and they were starting to settle down and the queen had already uncurled and stood up. :D
I put in a few rose leaves last night in the container next to them and found this morning a few cuts had been made out of it :). Also a few tiny workers had moved a few fragments of fungus garden into this container and look set on trying to establish a second garden here :D. Next to this tiny garden are a big bunch of eggs, Atta eggs are so tiny but there looks to be at least 200 in this bunch :grin:.
Well thats my update so far , heres a few pictures below.
As you can see a nice sized fungus garden and there are two soldiers in this small colony , a major and media :shock:
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Heres a better view of the fungus garden size :)
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Her Royal Majesty the Queen :P
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And heres where the fungus garden is , The Queen Container :D. Your notice the larger container next to it is where i put the leaves at the moment , but you can just make out a few ants , this is where they are trying to establish a second fungus garden :grin:
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Hope you guys like , Feel free to comment or ask questions :D
Regards
Adam :grin:
Hey guys , Great news the colony has settled in well :) , They have been cutting a few leaves over the weekend and the queen seems well and is active in stages lol. There has also been a few new worker births as these can be seen slowly walking around the fungus garden. Also the workers are taking good care off the Queen. I have fed them so far , rose , willow and dandilion leaves all have had pieces cut out of them but they seem to prefer the rose alot more. I have also given them a slice of apple and they loved it , that too has been cut up and chunks added to the fungus garden. Im glad to say aswell the fungus garden is now growing so they certainly love my setup :P
I will add more pictures soon ,
Regards
Adam :D
Looking good Adam.What Species did you get in the end, or did i miss that somewhere ?
Ive just ordered my tubeing so im going to build something like what youve done or should i say copy :oops:
He he , feel free to copy if you like mate.Ive just added some 6 watt strip lights to the top of each shelf , makes viewing alot easyer, will post pictures of that soon :grin: . The Species are Atta cephalotes. I look forward to seeing your setup , will you be getting Leaf cutting ants ? What species you aiming for ??
Well Atta cephalotes are available at the moment but i'll probably have to wait until the 2nd week in July after our holiday. I don't want to blame my neice if anything goes wrong while she looks after our pets..but can i wait that long. :roll:
One question. when there are 100's of workers foraging and ive put in loads of sprigs of, say bramble. How the hell do you get the old stuff out and the new stuff in without them being all over it? It was bad enough in my stick insect days lol. :grin:
Lol , well stick insects live actually on the sprigs of foodplant , so yes i can see it being hard to change the food. I find that once the colony has been provided with leaves they will cut all they need and then they usally stop. They act abit like driver ants in that they go on feeding frenzys once a day they dont collect food all day long. Just wait till they have stoped cutting or there are a few straglers left then clean out the old food. :grin:
Awesome dude!!! great stuff looking forward to seeing many more photos from you.. time to upgrade your camera ;)
Cheers thankyou Steve , i know i need to get a good macro one lol :D
Heres a few more pictures
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Regards
Adam