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Well howdy do guys, Heres a quick update, no pics :( but things are going well for my colony. :D The queen is laying masses of eggs and I have been able to see clearly with a red light loads of larvae and pupae. There is also a rather large larva, almost the size of a media soldier, so Im assuming anouther major or media major soldierpupae is on its way.
The ants have not foraged for two days, they still tend to the trash pile in the outworld and come out and forage around but they arnt interested in swarming the livefood, it doesent surprise me though as the weekend just gone they had aload of lasius niger alates and unhatched alate cocoons, they soon took these and striped of the cocoon and carried the lasius pupae back to the nest. There are still a few in a pile in one of the chambers and all the workers seem to have distended gastors ( The larger workers and soldiers certainly have :D ) so im thinking they are full.
Will post a few piccys again soon
Adam :mrgreen:
Nice music from the movie Antz... :)
Hey Vasile, cheers mate, its fits well, I noticed you use it too mate lol , great minds think a like he he :D
Adam
;) Isn't it catchy? haha!
Ha ha yes indeedy lol :grin:
Adam
Hey guys its been awhile, but dont worry that hasnt been a bad thing , its actually been great. I had no problems with the colony. They are doing fantasticly. They forage every other day and swarm over the live food :D . but the great news is there has been a sudden population explosion. lots and lots of new pupae are eclosing, there must be over a thousand all yellowing up and the best part is this is follwed by equal amounts of larva and eggs :P I have seen several larvae almost the size of a major soldier and they have there first new major soldier pupae :grin:
The queen is doing great and the humidity is staying settled around 80% -90% The temperture hovers around 28c - 30c 8) I will deffiantly be posting a few pictures soon and if they allow the light instrusion long enough for me to film, then i will try and get a video of them.
Speak soon guys
Regards
Adam :mrgreen:
Hey guys , Well my colony are doing great , the queen is laying all the time and they are feeding extremly well. Yestarday there was a very large foraging party in the arena so i put in a few fruit flys and crickets, the ants didnt pay much attention to them and i began to wonder why. I checked the nest to find the plaster nests completly dry and the whole colony had moved into one small champer and bunched up. The humidity had dropped so low anf was only 47%. I added more water to the plaster and immediatly the ants began to drink from it and slowly moved into the other chambers again. The foraging party made there way back to the nest and most the ants stayed inside the nest. I shall have to keep a closer eye on the humidity in the future. Other then that the colony are doing very well, i wouldent say there increasing in size , well not from what i can see but are cetainly keeping up with worker loss and staying stable. I have had these ants now nearly 12 weeks so i feel pretty confident colony callapse is not a option unless somthing happens to the queen. I am still awaiting my second colony of one queen and 2000 workers which i shall carfully merge with my own, a second queen is a great insurance policy in case my one fails, Hopfully in the future i will add a few more as i would like four queens in my colony :D :grin:
Heres a few pictures of my colony. Im sorry the pictures arnt the best but as the colony settled in now they seem to have took a great dislike in light, the macro needs this light so as soon as i expose them to light the queen heads into the tunnels and so does the workers and brood, i dont like distrubing them much. :?
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Fresh batch of eggs
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Newly emerged Major soldier joins the ranks.
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Her Majersty covered in a layer of protective workers, she doesent stay in the light long.
Well guys thats my update so far, hope you like
Regards
Adam :mrgreen: :grin:
8) Hello guys, well my colony are doing excelent more workers hatch every day and there are thousands of brood, they colony has expaned into the other plaster nests and will be soon ready to add anouther few on :P I have a new pupae, it is a soldier but far far bigger then any the colony has already. It is almost as big as the queen but its deffo not a alate as you can see the large pair of jaws and it hasnt any wings. I will be looking forward to seeing it emerge. :grin:
Heres a few pictures of the colony.
Regards
Adam :mrgreen:
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masses of brood :P
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one of the major soldiers
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:P 8)
Hey guys , been awhile since i posted a update on my colony. They are doing great , too great in fact lol :shock: The queen continues to lay masses of eggs and the brood completly fills there nest :P , I tried extending there setup but due to a designe fault wasnt able to,so i went ahead and built them new nest chambers that i could add too. Once i had finished i removed there nest , connected up the new one and placed there plaster nests in the foraging area and exposed the chambers to light. It didnt take long for the colony to vacate and move into the new nest. I filmed a little of it so heres the video for you :grin:
Regards
Adam :mrgreen:
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I love the set-up! Great filming job too! :)