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Well a quick update , the colony are doing great , Other then one worker dieing in the outworld shortly after arriving there has been no problems , the colony are taking
crickets everyday and the eggs and the single larvae are still there , its a little bigger but not much. The queen is healthy and the workers still groom her alot. The workers are foraging in the main tank now which is great to see them scurrying around hunting , wagging there little adomens , its facinating to watch :grin: , They killed a spider yestarday and that was quickly carried into the nest.
The queen hasnt laid anymore eggs but i assume as the eggs they have hactch and pupate im assuming she will lay more.
Will add some more pictures this weekend. :D
Please use this Discussion thread Link below for any questions ,help,tips or adice you may have .
Regards
Adam
Click here for the discussion thread.
Hey guys just a really quick update as will be posting pictures and updating properly over the weekend , We have a second larvae hatched =D> :P , the first one is doing great and has doubled in size , the second one is eating well aswell and the ants are catching and eating crickets every day now which is excellent :grin:
Please click link http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17267&start=0 for discussion thread :grin:
Regards
Adam
Hello Guys well heres my proper update with pictures :D , as you will see below , i got rid of the cabinate and have desighned a small formicarium that can sit on a shelf in my bedroom and is portable should i need to move it , it holds the plaster nests , has heating and moisture and red lighting to view ants without disturbence :grin:
The colony are doing great , the queen has laid a few more eggs and the first larvae is eating well and growing aswell. The second larvae has vanished , i assume it was eaten :( , it wasnt doing well and when it hatched wasnt the nice clear whitish colour the first one is , it was more yellow and then it darkend and i assume had died.
Some of the eggs have darkened and you can see the black dark spot that the larvae have so i know they will hatch in next few days :grin:.
The Ants are continuing to hunt in the outworld , still consuming 2-3 crickets every day , i have bought some mini locusts which are same size of the crickets . give them some variety , when the weather warms more i shall go hunting for small spiders and insects out in me garden aswell.
Heres a link to a youtube video of my colony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd73bpDkKks&list=UU60javMmgejklEkoEXfGpZQ&index=1&feature=plcp
Heres some pictures of my new setup and my colony. 8)
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The Setup may look far to big for them but its deceiving , each chamber can only hold about 20 -30 workers and these colonys get upto 300 so will fill it one day, also they do go in all the chambers and put bits of insects in them etc.
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Queen eating
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Queen surrounded by her subjects
Please click link http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17267&start=0 for discussion thread :P
Regards
Adam
Hello Guys some great news , checked on the Ants today to see the first hatched larvae still there and growing nicely :grin: , but on looking i noticed the larvae was on a cricket and on that same cricket was 3 other larvae :P =D> , yayyy , also there are still 15 eggs in the nest chamber so the queen is laying as the eggs hatch it seems 8)
Will keep you posted lol and i will take some more pics the weekend again :D
Regards
Adam
Hey Guys a quick update , sorry i havent been able to upload some pictures , was really busy the weekend so will have to get some done asap :grin:
Well great news , the workers are still fine and the queen is still laying , there are currently 17 eggs in the nest and 3 giant larvae :P , they must be pupating soon because they are almost as big as the ants lol.
3 more newly hatched larvae were spotted yestarday so the eggs are hatching again. I have noticed aswell that while they have larvae there must be a constant supply of livefood in the nest chamber , as soon as they finish off the last insect the larvae only have to go without food for a day and they start shrinking :shock: . Usally by the second day they get eaten by the workers. I noticed this with the first larvae that hatched , it was growing great then they stopped catching live food for like a day and by that evening the larvae looked like it had shrunk, and then the next day it had gone. All that was left were the 3 hatched larvae that are soo big i also noticed with a constant supply of food in the nest the larvae grow alot quicker. So since they have been there i have made sure the ants had plenty food everday. Even when they dont go out hunting i place a few mini crickets in one of the nest chambers and within minutes the workers find them and paralize them , bringing them back to the main nest chamber.
Pictures soon to follow this weekend.
Regards
Adam :grin:
Hey guys , A few pictures for you , Colony population at moment.
6 Larva
9 Workers
1 Queen
:P :grin:
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Will update soon
Regards
Adam :grin:
Hey guys really quick update , i checked on the ants last night and the workers were putting loads of bits of insects and substrate on one of the larger larvas , that can mean only one thing its begiining to pupate :grin: :P
I marked when the first larva appeared so it takes about four weeks give or take a few days at 25-26 c for the larva to turn into a pupae.
Will update again soon
Regards
Adam 8)
Hey guys well some really great news , we have a cocoon :D :P . thats one so hopfully the other two larva will spin one soon. :grin:
Heres some updated pictures.
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There you go guys , hope you like.
I was just wondering whether any one likes this thread , it doesent get alot of feedback so was wondering if it worth updating it. ?
Regards
Adam 8)
Hi Adam,
I think you have a lot of silent readers, as you have over 2000 views on this thread. I would continue to update if I were you, makes my monday mornings exciting :)
Regards,
Vasile
Hello Vasile , thankyou very much , Im afraid though My Harpegnathos journey ends here for now :( . The Workers have slowly died off , Old age i am sure of. The queen was the last one left and the two pupae a few larvae and a few eggs. The pupae never hatched and i spotted the queen eating the contents of both :x , there were larvae inside , no pupae , so i dont know why they never papated. The cocoons were intact and all was going well. Anyway after this i tried feeding the queen on crickets and she hunted and ate for awhile but slowly the last few eggs and larva were eaten. Finally after a few weeks the queen died.
So for now my journey ends with these species but i will try again in the future but would want to start with a much larger colony :)
Regards
Adam