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I think 70% is to much, but i doubt that is the problem why they don't accept the food. Strange that they accept it first. Is there something else that changed when they moved to the new farm ? Heating ?
Is there still brood ?
Right now they have a bundle of eggs. Heat should be roughly the same, atleast if my thermometer is trustworthy. I'm gonna let the basin dry out now, because the major difference from the old basin is that in the old basin tehre was no sand or soil at all, and it was completely dry. They seemed to accept this. Then I'll just ahve to try and moisten the ytong carefully to not make too much water leak out into the rest of the basin.
The annoying part is that I have to sit and babysit the basin while I dry it, because the ants will surely take the chance to explore the rest of my room. ;)
At one point I actaully tried to give them some extra heat with my heat-cord at their nest, but they rather moved away from it, so I abandoned that right away.
They even seem abit picky about the sugary food now though. They eat it, but it doesn't seem like everyone gets/wants it.
Some Camponotus species like it rather dry. So that could be one of the reasons. Like you said, let the nest area dry for a while and keep it less moist to see how they respond to that.
In my experience small colonies are much more picky about there sugary food than larger ones.
Good luck.
Thanks Jimmy, wish I had any working fans to help with the drying. >__<
If I do manage to get these to recover, I think I'mma let someone else take care of them. I've decided to somewhat specialize my ant-keeping instead. But first I'mma make sure they survive!