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I have put my Harpegnathos venators in an enclosed box with a heating lamp inside the box (I originally pt it outside the box but it wasn't heating the inside much). I have made an ant farm and put it the box. Unfortunately there is condensation on the inside of the box and around the antfarm. Does anyone know how to reduce the condensation? I have holes in the self made antfarm. I could take the lid off the box but I would then have to reposition the antfarm as they could easily escape. For ants needing a high humidity (eg Atta ants) would you use a fan within the enclosed basin? Thanks your replies. Pictures to follow next week.
If you heat up the farm you always will have condesation. If you use a heat mat, the area where the heat mat is you can see that there is no condesation so if you like to take pictures you can remove the heat mat for a few minutes.
But won't condensation get in the nest and make the nest too wet for the brood?
Normally not. They probably move the brood underneath the heat mat.
You shouldn't need a fan running all the time but you should have one you can turn on for a few minutes a day just to replace the stagnant air with fresh air. Put the fan on the outside facing into the tank via the mesh (if your using mesh).
Don't keep them to wet. You will get problems with mites. It is better to ask your supplier where the ants come from (the area or a city near by). Then you can check up the correct "wheater" conditions.
Thanks, I have now moved them to a drier nest, pictures to follow at the end of this week. They don't eat energy food like sugar, honey etc do they? Mine wouldn't eat it, and I put a grey spider in there and they ignore it completely. I am going to look for some local live insects to give them today.
You can feed them with fresh killed insects. But when you do so, you have to place the insects in the entrance of the nest. That they don't eat energy food is normal. They don't have social-stomach so that they have to carry it between their mandibles.
Chemitech is true... as Ponerinae they don´t make together thropalaxion, so you must be careful and get ants full of food all the time. So as predators, you must give them just proteins, but I think you also wont feed them by honeywatter..... :grin:
I have the same experience, that you must put protein food near the entrace, I don´t know if itś normal, but my Odontomachus are in ,,naturaly" formicarium shy and they don´t went out for hunting...
I feed them a bumble bee yesterday and they were interested in it but weren't strong enough to take it down. There was about 1-4 of them on it and the bumble bee had jaws about the size of a weaver ant and seemed too strong for them. However none of the workers got hurt either. I then helped out and killed the bumble bee but once it wasn't moving they weren't interested in it even after I cut it up. I will try to find something else today. I will also try killing the spider I put in there and putting it in the nest entrance. Would you believe I put a small grey moth from my flat in there this morning and it walked and flapped around and they weren't interested in that either? Maybe they can't see grey.