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ashhad1: (15. Mai 2008 20:04)

miszt i think he ment he moved the ants into a earth/sand farm or something and thats why he cant take photos of them since there hidden

but if im wrong then miszt is right

anquietas: (15. Mai 2008 20:35)

ashhad1 is right and i know about the whole cant be impatient thing when trying to get ants to move

anquietas: (15. Mai 2008 22:03)

is it possible to get a queen to stop fearing light? maby even thrive in it?

ashhad1: (15. Mai 2008 22:53)

Well its possible, but really only when you keep them used to light right at the beginning. Such as keeping them in a test tube uncoverd etc...
If you let your queen live underground for a short time they developsomething which then makes them blind when exposed to light (not blind forever but they cant c when its light) I cant remember the scientific word for it.

But yes its possible and my lasius niger thrive in those conditions as i never let them get used to darkness. But then come questions if its right to do that because aybe its harmful in the longrun and not natural etc...

anquietas: (15. Mai 2008 23:29)

you may be right but then again one of my queens about 30seconds ago layed an egg under a relly bright light wich brings me to my next question how do i feed my ants withouth them escaping? they are in an 8cm long RX bottle that is 3 cm in diamiter should i refirgate themlike you do with harverstar ants the you order for a farm? o and does antstore ship to the usa? o and another thing do you have to hibernate your ants or not jw?

tail__: (16. Mai 2008 07:34)

I don't think the bottle is a good place for a formicarium... Antstore don't ship to USA. Try to make something similar to these you can see in Antstore. Building your own simple formicarium is not hard. If the ants feel good they don't try to escape. Lasius flavus need hibernation in winter.

anquietas: (16. Mai 2008 21:25)

ok thank you and the bottle is only temporay untill there colony is large enough to take on a normal formicarium :) like a y-tong o and could i find lasius niger in the usa?

anquietas: (20. Mai 2008 16:04)

ok my L. Flavus queens wont eat the protein i have given them they will drink sugar water but nothing els have i done something wrong or is this just a normal processes that they go through?


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