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Hi,
Recently I have sold all my ants including my Camponotus ligniperdus [lignis] and Ph ei dole and a few others. This was to save up for one more ant colony which I have just ordered from an English base site that in port Thai ant species. I have ordered a colony of 2 queens and around 50 workers. They should be arriving tomorrow or on Wednesday. I will keep them in a simple out world and a large y-tong as I have seen on many other websites that they grow fast in the right conditions (1 month egg to worker).
[Mod; I edited the species name like it made the most sence, to Camponotus ligniperdus]
Nice I want to use a similar set up for my M essor barb ar us only I would glue the ytong to the tank, but what species did you get?
cool, I had Messor barbarus for a while too in an up right y-tong. they are quit difficult to start out though (for me). I am keeping Camponotus nicobarensis :wink:
This will be my first time keeping M essor barb ar us and was wandering if you could give me some pointers in the right direction...
By the way good luck with your new ants as you have given up a lot in order to get them :)
Ok, well the best advice i can give you is to keep them in a tut tube for a while until the colony is around 20-30 workers, that way they will be strong enough when they go into a larger habitat. Also, read every single thing about Messor barbarus on this site and others the gain as much knowledge prior to getting the ants. Feed them on grass seeds and other stuff like that, maybe walnuts. they do take insects as well but mainly seeds and honey water.
Good luck Lewis, please keep us updated with their progress :)
Will do Andie :wink: just found out that the place where I have bought them are importing them in April and they will be delivered on 15th April, of coarse this is a bit annoying but by the time I get them they will apparently have had an increase in workers and have a large number of cocoons and other brood. :)
Thanks for the info lewis really helped and good luck hope you get the result of a happy healthy colony :D
Hey guys,
The dealer has just sent me a photo of my colony which is in Thailand at the moment but will be imported and sent to me in April.
Here it is.
Lewis :D
I'm excited for you :) bet you can't wait....