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Very nice pics and ants. Keep the pictures coming. ;)
Hello!
The construction of the setup picture by picture:
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_002.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_001.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_003.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_004.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_005.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_006.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_007.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_008.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_011.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_009.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_010.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_012.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/nid_013.jpg
The ants:
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/PARA005.jpg
http://neab.free.fr/nids/Paraponera_clavata/PARA006.jpg
Very very nice neab.. Keep the pics coming :)
This is a really nice setup! Good job.
Are you not afraid the ants will dig into the sand (i think its sand) ? The granulate i used with my Messor barbarus or now all over the place. I think that is one of the reasons i stopt making such pretty farms, they always make a mess of it. ;)
Thank you for your comments ;)
Yes, they had moved below the moss :roll:
So, I removed all the moss the time they go in the ytong nest.
The substrate is humus and seramis
Thanks for the setup pictures though I'm sure you will get condensation in the chambers. I assume you will drill lots of small holes in the glass to ventilate the condensation? Thats maybe what I'd do. I'm also interested in how you created the chambers. Did you use clay which you bought and then molded? It does look good.
Thanks for the setup pictures though I'm sure you will get condensation in the chambers. I assume you will drill lots of small holes in the glass to ventilate the condensation?
I can’t see how drilling holes in the glass would work. Ventilating the chambers to fight condensation would mean getting enough airflow in the chambers dry the air and stop the moisture from condensing on the glass, but you need to keep the humidity.
You’re unlikely to get sufficient air flow in the chambers to reduce condensation; you get condensation on cool objects in a breeze outside.
You could put the heat source against the glass, so that the glass is warmer than the air in the chambers, to stop condensation, however this direct heat could warm surfaces in the chamber resulting in ants/brood drying up (so they move somewhere else).
The best method I can think of for removing condensation in a humid tank is to have the room they are in at the desired temp and humidity.
All in all, you might just have to put up with condensation.
Yes, but by putting up with condensation, if you don't wipe it off, you will eventually (after about 1-2 months) get mold. I am interested in how to achieve this high humidity effect without condensation in the nest. I must be able to be done or people wouldn't be able to keep those sort of ants.
That setup is not good for the following reasons.
1. It is way to big for such a small colony, they will use the rooms as waste disposal rooms.
2. The rooms are poorly carved, you are wasting to much space, you need much more floors in the rooms where they can put the brood.
3. As your colony gets bigger the workers will have to get to the last rooms as quickly as possible, the way you made you rooms make the "flow" of ants nearly impossible.
4. The big log will start to degenerate causing mold, which isn't good for ants.
There are a lot more reason, but basically you used a very expensive ant and put it in a poorly made nest.
Also, if you pay that amount of cash for ants, you are insane.
I don't think paying that much for ants is bad, after all they are the biggest you can get. If they were only 2cm for that price is probably too much, but they are soo big and if you save up I think it is worth it.