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The_Paranoid: Polyrhachis dives - my colony (20. Dez 2008 13:25)

There's already an older thread about my colony in the german forum. But i thought it couldn't harm to post another one in the englisch forum.

So, here we go.
Should be about 1 year ago, when my P. dives arrived. 1 queen and some workers.
Here's a picture of the first nest
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives1.jpg
Picture of the setup
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives3_500w.jpg
2 Workers
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives6.jpg
Didn't like it there very much ... so they moved to a hose who was intended to connect 2 basins.
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives2.jpg
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives5_small.jpg http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives4_small.jpg http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives7_small.jpg http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives8_small.jpg
eating honey
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives9.jpg
and maggots
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives10.jpg

A Video showing them weaving in good Qualtity
or Youtube
t3sFskJk2z8

Soon they moved back to the old nest
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives11.jpg
and started to expand
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives13.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives14.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives15.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives16.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives17.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives18.jpg

Time for a new basin... here's the new 80x35x40
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives19.jpg
Soon they started to build a new nest near the heatmat
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives25.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives26.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives27.jpg
Again a video in good quality
or Youtube
IMAFmErD9gU

larvae weaving
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives26_ausschnitt.jpg
And the new nest starts to grow
http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives28.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives29.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives32.jpg

http://www.eatenbyinsects.de/bilder/Polyrhachis_dives33.jpg

Not much text... more pictures. Feel free to comment ;)

EDIT: nearly forgot. I also installed a webcam . Not a very good quality .. but you can see some action. Feeding is mostly done in the afternoon.

Skippy: Re: Polyrhachis dives - my colony (20. Dez 2008 21:48)

Hi , you´ve got very nice colony :) , I have Polyrhachis sp. too , but really small colony. I received 3 queens and cca 30 workers 2 months ago , and now is there more than 100 workers , so it grow very quickly , I can past here some photos too :)

SteveUK28: Re: Polyrhachis dives - my colony (21. Dez 2008 11:55)

very very nice both of you.. im thinking of keeping this spec. next year, i have a nice big tank for them.. but i have no lid.. any ideas where i can get a sutible lid for a 4' tank?

JimmyVe: Re: Polyrhachis dives - my colony (22. Dez 2008 17:54)

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.