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Yes yes, I´m coming on exotic species now, I will get Ectatomma specie (ruidum) and Polyrhachis dives, or wolfi maybe.... But I also like our European too...
yes winter can be a pain so......some exotics would do the trick lol.european is my favourite.......but i might start on some exotics next year as i am now quite intrested in them. not sure which one to get though as i am still deciding :P maybe Messor spec or some camponotus species or somthing like that :grin:
I like hibernation time, 16 colonies are having a hibernation only 4 of them are awake, so i have it easier now. ;)
Once you have big colonies you will be glad its hibernation.
lol but i cant hibernate all of mine because some of them(1 at mo) are in aqaruims etc...only 1 colony is not hibernating, my rubra. i am aware of the life expextencey thing an that by the way :P but as it is heavy an that, i cannot carry in case of it breaking the(aqarium) and ants would be every where lol. and i'm not leaving my bedrm window open all winter ether, lol i/everyone else in my house would be freezing so u know i'm a bit stuck unless there in a testtube or a y-tong or somthing :sad03:
That is why i try to make my farms so light as possible. ;) Easier to move.
ohhhhh now i understand why y-tongs can be helpful for transfering queens/colonies to bigger homes etc :)
You got it Jimmy thats 1 of the main reason im gonna be using a ytong for all the species i own that hibernate.. dont think i could imagine carrying a 4' tank filled with sandloam and ants into my shed lol however i nice sized ytong and a basin... no probs :D
...and is there any possibility to change basins? I mean if oncethe colony is set up in a display and it breaks or something, there is no chance to put the colony into another display or basin? For Xample trying to find the queen and save as many workers as possible and putting them into another basin... Does anybody have experience like this? I'm really curious about it, what to do in case of emergency :) kind of action movie I suppose :D
lol ciluv... if that happened i think id cry lol.. im guessing it would be very hard.. i think id use a lot of tape.. and vaseline.. then try n conect them to a "Better" Home.. and prob add somat that smelled nasty to the display they was in...
@ciluvagyok: lucky for me it never happened, but a friend of mine had a bit off a problem with his Messor barbarus they dig trout the y-tong and made a hole the escape. ;) So he did put the hole farm (y-tong and out world) in a big tub, used some talk at the edge of the tube and than let them move into a new farm. With tubes, nice warm new farm and a cold old farm, they moved in a few days.
So it is always handy to keep a big tub near by. ;)