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Alby: nest no-escaping (18. Apr 2008 22:29)

Hi!!!
yesterday arrived my queens!a Messor Barbarus with a lot of eggs and some larvae, lasius niger with two workers and pheidole with three workers!All of them are very good!I'm very happy

I put pheidole in free sand in an acryl box, all around the edge I used vaselina and for a better sicurity I put this box in another bigger than it with some water all around.Do you think that can be a good solution?

Now I cover the test tube and give her some honey and an insect, pheidole are very active and very very tiny! :)
As my lasius did when arrived the firt time, pheidole are picking the sand into the test tube...

SteveUK28: (19. Apr 2008 10:50)

ohh they will seal the test tube completly up with the sand.. mine have. as for safe.. yeh i think it is.. however if they manage to get over the vaseline which is doubtfull.. they will most likely drown.

Alby: (19. Apr 2008 12:54)

These ants are very nice!!I'm waiting for the firsts warrior! :)

how many times I have to use vaseline??every week, two week, a month?

JimmyVe: (19. Apr 2008 17:39)

I don't use Vaseline so i have no answer for that one. :)

The water i would take away. Like Steve said, they probably can not go over the Vaseline but if they do they will drown.

Felix: (19. Apr 2008 19:01)

yeah i would not use water either... especially not like this... because the have pretty much no chance to get back into their basin once they fell down....