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It seems you are making a factory over there. ;) I hope this al works out so you don't need to move again after burning down your house. :)
Good luck.
mizst, why humidity is soo high?the offerer told me that they can be kept without any specific humidity,they only need temparature.
Well they come from areas that have very high humidity, and I like to keep things as natural as possible (they also come from drier areas like Mexico)
Also I have various tropical plants which require very high humidity
do they males look any different to the normal females, that way you could tell if you have workers making some eggs. must say 3cm is BEASTY so cool. also what are they living in i saw the pic of your setup so are they just tunneling in the soil or is there a ytong underground somewhere?
wow.. Real nice things you have there! I wouldn't want to get bitten by one of those!
they have 2 seperate nest sections at the moment, I have placed a ytong tower in the tank, but they'r not interested in it, probly to dry for them, at the moment some of the colony is a crack in the wood, the rest is digging into the soil.....which is a pain, coz they are digging up my plants! lol
having a rethink about the setup, i'm probly gona attack a ytong in a farm n keep the tank kool, hopefully they will move into it, then i can think about ways to stop them digging up my plants lol
im probably keep them too. mizst what nest you reccomend for them?
a new pic, its a bit grainy i'm afraid, was having trouble getting the lighting right, really need to get my light ring fixed!
Nice picture. Ants look great to ! :)
I've moved my colony to a Y-Tong this evening, I noticed a sunken area of soil above one of the nest exits, and I was afraid that the soil may be collapsing, due to the air escaping as it became 'compacted'.
Using a VERY thin tube, I very slowly flooded the tank**, from the base, as the water level slowly rose in the substrate, the colony left the nest to look for a new one, which I had ready and prepared for them.
**Begginers: Please!! Do Not Try This unless you are very confident with what you are doing, and it is absolutly necessary, and the ants are large and strong enough to not be sucked up by water tension, you may wipe out your colony if it goes wrong!
If you do want to try it, bear in mind the water level needs to rise very very slowly, i'm talking <0.5cm per half an hour, no more, so definitly dont try it with a small farm! Unfortunetly due to the very high tempretures we have in the UK at the moment, all the usual techniques for moving the colony would not have worked....it will be a few days before I know whether the whole colony and brood have survived, and more importantly that the queen got out before the tunnels collapsed! fingers crossed, but I am fairly confident the whole colony is safley in the YTong, once they have settled down I will tak a look :)