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tombud10: Myrmica rubra and Antworks! (21. Mai 2007 23:52)

Hello!!

I am planning on buying a colony of Myrmica rubra with a Queen and placing them in my Antworks gel ant farm. Is this recommended as it is quite a small environment. Also, will these Ants built tunnels? I had a few Lasius Niger and they all died without tunnelling at all. Is it a good idea to use queen ants in antworks in general? If not, can i order Ants through Antstore without a queen? I want a decent amount of Ants (At least 30)

Any help would be greatly appriciated! Thanks!!

NuEM: (22. Mai 2007 02:15)

Don't use Antworks, its a piece of sh*t. Eventually the ants will allways die. Buy a real ant farm, if you want to enjoy your ants for more than just a few weeks.

pphakkar: (22. Mai 2007 08:31)

Tervehdys

Does anyone have experiences about connecting gel nest to ordinary ant farm?

JimmyVe: (22. Mai 2007 08:52)

Hi tombud and welcome to the forum.

First of all, Nuem is wright Antworks is sh*t, i sad it before and I'm going to say it again, i don't understand why they shell it !

If you really are interested to keep ants, make are buy a real ant farm to keep them in. Workers without a queen have no meaning in live so they are not going to live long and they are not going to do much.
Read a bit on the forum and than if you are still interested buy a young colony Lasius niger ore some other easy species.

@ pphakkar: why would you do such a crazy thing ?

pphakkar: (22. Mai 2007 11:15)

pphakkar: why would you do such a crazy thing
I'm crazy ;-)

And thank you Jimmy once again for helping me with your advices now and previously.

JimmyVe: (22. Mai 2007 11:25)

;) lol
Not a problem i'm glad i can help.

if i where you i would not connect a gel nest to a 'normal' farm. just keep you normal farm. that is much better than a gel nest.

Greetings

deadmeat30: (22. Mai 2007 17:12)

indeed it is, as i first found out about the antworks gel, total rubbish, your ants will just die! now im really in my ant farms, just been building one out of airated concreate! seems to be great! will start a thread and pics soon! (once i get some ants to go in it!!!)

Alan

JimmyVe: (22. Mai 2007 20:44)

;) can't wait to see some pictures of it alan. ;)