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The Liquid "VITA BIOSA" is working!!
Vita Biosa is some natural drink for your guts of you if problems with digestion. Somebody on the forum told me to use it. It didn't work at all in the whole basin , but after i took the queen out yesterday and put her into a test tube, i used some of the liquid again. A few hours later i took a look into the tube and almost 90% of the mites were gone from her body. So i repeated this procedure in new test tubes until there were no more visible mites.
Shes now in a new test tube with a little bit of sand/loam mixture to make her comfortable
If it wasn't about Pheidologeton , the liquid might be able to rescue a whole colony. The problem with my colony was/is that the basin is filled with sand/loam so the mites have some places without the liquid around them where they can "stay" and Pheidologeton usually don't drink. Some other keepers used this stuff in their water dispenser and it worked. Or to water their YTONG
My new workers have arrived
Today i recieved about 50-100 workers. I set the queen with her test tube in a new prepared small basin.
Step by step i set the workers into the basin. They accepted her as their new queen within seconds.
After about 20 minutes and half of the workers i put their testtube into the basin. They rushed out to the
queen protected her and guided her into the tube where she was before.
Now she " ONLY " has to lay eggs. Lets hope that she will make it
Sadly...... the queen died on the 7th of July.
But i will keep exotic ants again. Right now i am deciding between Pheidologeton diversus again and Harpegnathos venator.
I only know for sure , that i will build an YTONG nest to get a better look onto the colony and a better access for VITA BIOSA to defeat
freakin mites if they every appear again
Great colony but sorry for your loss. I can't wait to see your next new colony!
sorry to hear it, I'm thinking about getting some in the near future. If you do decide to try again with this species keep us posted. It will be good to see what you do different. We can all learn from it.
Be asured that i will keep u posted. I always do about every species i keep. I like to write all my experience down here in this forum