SNiDE: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (14. Feb 2009 17:00)

donbilbo your setups looks really nicely organised. Maybe I'm missing the obvious but I can't see where the connecters are between basins? Did you drill through the glass, use pipes etc?
Akel, good to hear you're not having trouble with your Polyrhachis dives, is that nest what they came in or have they weaved it since moving in? With regards to feeding them sweet things (i.e fruit) I've found it best to just use sugar/honey water concentrates, with occasional little chunks of fruit. Large bits tend to rot and are difficult to clean/remove when they have lots of ants camping on them :P Best of luck!

donbilbo: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (18. Feb 2009 10:30)

Hello SNiDE sorry for the late reply. I wish i had drilled through the glass basins but by the time i bought the second and third one they allready lived in the first one. So i made lids out of plexiglass and left a gap on each side. On those gaps i put the small glass basins (upside down). I really tightened and secured those basins with a special adhesive tape. You can see the tape if you really go near and that sucks but if you stand like 1 meter away you can hardly see it.

I had the time to put some more branches in there for the ants to explore but its still not enough, will have to find more...

DJRGEN: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (4. Apr 2009 10:46)

Hi donbilbo,
How is your colony now?

cheers
Djr :)

neab: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (10. Apr 2009 11:34)

This is my setup:

http://neab.free.fr/nids/Poly/Poly_001.jpg

http://neab.free.fr/nids/Poly/Poly_002.jpg

40/25 for roughly 150 ants

donbilbo: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (10. Apr 2009 14:07)

DJRGEN my colony was in some king of hibernation or pause. First they had alates for the very first time, then they stopped eating proteines and only sat in the nest. (well, like 200 ants were out there at any given time but its still a huge difference)
Now they seem back to normla, i hope.:)

Neab looking good! :)

donbilbo: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (27. Mai 2009 13:45)

Hi, whats happening? This board is kind of dead. What happened to the huge colonies some of you (especially akell) bought? Doing well?

This is a new setup i tried to let the ants build their nest in a tree. the new nest is only one day old, when i feel they finished building i will cut the remaining straw with scissors to make it look better. ;)

highered: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (23. Jun 2009 16:33)

I tried to make my photos smaller using my free website software but it didn't work so here is the link to where the relevant picture is:
My Poly dives nest next to my H venators:
http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Picture005.jpg
(Yes I know they can cut through the netting).

My new colony arrived in a big box nesting around and in a brown paper bag. Imagine that?
http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Picture011.jpg

Poly dives foraging area:
http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Picture028.jpg

The top of my nest, its made up of 3 small connected boxes:
http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Pictur023.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Picture024.jpg

highered: Re: Show your Ants and your setup in here (23. Jun 2009 16:39)

One more picture:
http://www.geocities.com/zippy682/Picture028.jpg

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