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Hi SNiDE, if you had to assume or quickly count the ants foraging at any given time, what would be your guesstimation? Your colony seems to be more than 1000 ants, isnt your main basin too small?
i think the small one is the arena ?
when you buy these ants you can get a queen +1000 workers, how many did you get SNIDE ?
You can if you buy it from a private seller. Yes i think he is using the upper basin only to feed the ants.
Hi SNiDE, if you had to assume or quickly count the ants foraging at any given time, what would be your guesstimation? Your colony seems to be more than 1000 ants, isnt your main basin too small?
As Jimmy says, the upper basin is just for feeding them as taking the lid off the main basin lid to feed them can cause alot of hassle for them and me. The main basin is about 2ft x 1ft, which seems to be large enough for them. Assuming this species forages with roughly 10% of its population i would guestimate the pop. of the colony to be 1200-1400 workers, but I think this will decrease over the next few weeks as older workers die off and the next generations emerge, as the brood obviously suffered from the journey, before increasing again.
p.s thanks for sorting my pics out Jimmy 8)
I tried an experiment with Polyrhachis and I made nest like this , from 2 CD-pack joined together , and I put pieces of paper into (one wet , other dry). They moved to that very quickly (in one hour) :) , so they probably love it. Then they started to make nest inside , they are getting soil to box and making chambers from paper. Looks to be funny :) , I have not seen any problems yet. On top of box are small holes for fresh air.
All i put into arena.
Looks nice Skippy, I want to see what the paper nest will look like.
As you can see comparing this picture to the one above (taken thursday evening) my ants have been busy; they are starting to create chambers for the queens, and are expanding out sideways aswell as upwards.
My Polyrhachis dives seem to love nesting in the crunched up black bin bag I put in their basin. Alot of them hang out it the crinkles in the middle of it. The benefit then is you just open it up very easily to see them.
sounds creative, not thought/heard of that idea, do you have any pics highered? :)
I got a digital camera for christmas and will be posting some pictures in about a month.
Ventilation comes to mind when i think about a plastic bag offered to nest. As soon as they will have enough larvae they will spin chambers in the bag so you wont be abled to watch them any more. I'm allways in favor of natural setups.
my colony has weaves across most of the glass where their nest is now, its still cool to see their silk wall twitch under their feet. highered why a month for the pics, you know digital photos dont need to be developed right? :P