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Just wondering.. But what is the most interesting Ant to watch?
Hmm... That is a difficult question. ;) I think everyone has his own favorite.
favourite ant is thatwhat you like it looks like,what they are doing ...
whats your favourite jimmyve?
my favorite ant species although i don't keep them myself has to be leaf cutters although i would love to keep a colony when i get enough experience.
Sithmaster676
@ mzfckr: My favorite ants species... I have more than one. ;) The one i like most are my Pheidologeton diversus, Camponotus substitutus, Messor barbarus and my Pheidole pallidula but all of my other ants i like to, and lot of species i do not have. ;)
Hello guys,
I'm a newby girl here and need some info (like all newbies do):
My Lasius Niger colony has just arrived this day from AntStore, but they don't seem to be hibernated, I mean all the colony and the queen is awake and moving here-there. I dont want to disturb them if not necessary, but I dont want to shoch them with a sudden cold. There is a watery cotton stuff at the botoom of the testtube and it is plugged with a paper towel. Is it OK if I just put this whole thing into the fridge? Any other thing? When will they end their hibernation (if they start it at all...:))? If they do, how can I get them into the glass antfarm? I dont have an arena just the glass farm and the testtube does not fit in :)
and the testtube has cca 10 workers, a queen and quite a lot of eggs.
pls pls give answers!
thx guys,
Cilu
Lasius Niger hibernate in response to the tempreture :) so in a warm room they wont hibernate.....put them in a shed or somthing, and check them every couple of days to make sure they have enough water
as you have allot of eggs, i think its safe to assume that they where not in hibernation when they where sent to you, so you need to reduce the tempreture for them slowly over 4-6 weeks, to between 10-5C, a fridge is a good place to keep a small colony in a test tube, but its important to drop the tempreture slowly, so find slightly cooler places once a week till u get to juzt above 10C, then put them in the fridge
Hi Miszt,
thx a lot. Now I know what to do in the next couple of months with my ants (i.e. wait) and have plenty of time to figure out how to create their home. I have been searching the net since ages but I couldnt fint a kind of 'tutorial' of making an ant farm:) if we lived in the same countries, we could manage to organize an ant-fanatic seminar, where people could actually see and try composing/watering/maintaining/cleaning an ant farm, feeding ants, removing e.g. waste food from an ant farm, or just how to catch them once they're out (without stamping them:))
I have never seen such things and though I had hella lot of pets (parrot, dog, hen, pigeon, hamster, guinea pig and now a ferret) I am here with a fancy new colony with good ideas but technically unexperienced... have you got any idea where can I find tutorial films or something? here in Hungary this ant topic is not so common. It would be a good idea to upload some video material here to AntStore :)
Ytong nests are pretty good :) you can also combine them with basins to make pretty nice realistic enviroments, if ur a bit creative
http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t=5737&highlight=wip
thx for the tip :)
I think i gotta go sleep now, im kind of sleepy...
off: miszt, has your name got anything to do with hungarian language?
it sounds and looks like a Hungarian word.
on: is a glass farm like this:
http://www.antstore.net/shop/product_info.php/info/p563_glass-ant-display-30x2x20cm.html
ok for lasius niger? this is what i have and no money/room left for bigger plans... :)
thx everything,
C.