marcelant: New to ant keeping (11. Mär 2009 21:00)

this messige is about 10 mins after my colony and stuff had just arrived at my house i orderd queen + queen 1 to 3 workers firstly i opend the packige of my colony i carefully took out the test tube there was 3 workers queen 7 eggs 3 lava and 2 pupa
then i got 6 bottles of honey water and i was wandering what type of corn does the P heidole pallidula eat now then i opened the ant starter set c then i looked at the 7 1000gs of sand and loam ok if any one has got aney tips for me and an answer for my question post me :D

JimmyVe: Re: New to ant keeping (12. Mär 2009 18:17)

Hello marcelant and welcome.

You need to put the sand/loam mix into the setup, connect the setup to the out world. put the ants into the out world (tube with ants) and they will find there way to the setup. Feed them sweets (honey, sugar water) and insects. (feel free to read around the forum a bit. ;) )

Good luck.

marcelant: Re: New to ant keeping (13. Mär 2009 21:09)

Hello marcelant and welcome.

You need to put the sand/loam mix into the setup, connect the setup to the out world. put the ants into the out world (tube with ants) and they will find there way to the setup. Feed them sweets (honey, sugar water) and insects. (feel free to read around the forum a bit. ;) )

Good luck.
ty m8 do you know what type of corn the P heidole pallidula eat if you know or your friends do ty m8 :D

SteveUK28: Re: New to ant keeping (13. Mär 2009 21:40)

Pheidole dont eat corn as far as im aware.. i know mine dont.. They eat insects and honey.

jartok: Re: New to ant keeping (14. Mär 2009 15:25)

there not harvester ants

marcelant: Re: New to ant keeping (15. Mär 2009 13:31)

well it sez in the nutrition insecs honey water and some grains what type of grains wold that be plz and wold bloom poll be good for the pheidole pallidula

JimmyVe: Re: New to ant keeping (15. Mär 2009 15:19)

As for as i know they dont eat grains. You can try it, i did with mine and they didnt accept them.

marcelant: Re: New to ant keeping (15. Mär 2009 18:19)

what type of grains i dont know aney grains can you tell me some plz :?

thecowmaster: Re: New to ant keeping (15. Mär 2009 19:02)

well i thing you could try grass grains

SteveUK28: Re: New to ant keeping (15. Mär 2009 19:37)

Mine dont except grains either.. just insects, meat and sweet things.. and my colony is doing great.. so they dont NEED grains to grow.