ant dude: keeping ants in captivity (18. Nov 2007 14:19)

hello everyone, im starting this new topic as im intrested when other people started keeping ants in captivity/and what there first species was. please vote at the voting pole please :D

if u wanna say what was your first species of ants in captivity and what they were like for u please do.u can if u want say what was your percific age as it is quite intresting to know :D

everyone feel free to vote and reply :D

Skippy: (18. Nov 2007 14:23)

I saw queen first time , when I was about 5 years old (lasius niger) , then later , when I was about 7 years old I saw camponotus vagus queen ;)

ant dude: (18. Nov 2007 14:42)

i fault i better get the ball rollin, i voted between the ages of 5-10 years.to be persific i was 7 years of age. because when i lived in london in my back garden there were 3 different species of ant: myrmica rubra, lasuis niger and lasuis flavus i kept niger first as i was quite attracted them when i was younger. for me it was amazing i just coud'nt take my eyes off them (i cant really now iver lol) anyway i remeber keeping them in an ol ice cream tub with soil: there first insect i gave them was a centerpide they really enjoyed it so did i wacthing these facsinating insects. my mum 'n' dad kept telling me to put them down where i found them(of course being so intrested in them i did'nt and snuck them to my bedroom to keep. mum found them a few days after and she threw them in the bin.the time i asked did u see them she said to me she chucked em i was crying my eyes out. then i just kept collecting loads more ants they kept chucking em out i kept collecting.i remeber one day i put a niger queen in a plant pot about a year later there was a big colony of them this really annoyed em. and shortley afterwards we moved to yarmouth (probaly because the ant inthestation lol)
luckily for me i can keep them now........yes
:D

sithmaster676: (18. Nov 2007 18:08)

i began keeping ants at the age of 11 my first colony was lasius niger and from there on i have got a lot more experience and now keep a lot more various species.
Sithmaster676

Ant27: (18. Nov 2007 20:01)

Hi!

I've already asked this question in the german part.
Link: http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t=5283

Very interesting!

Sorry for my bad english! :?

LG Martin

Messorus: (18. Nov 2007 20:44)

I wanted to keep ants in my 4 years, but I didn´t have no literature or publications.... But on my 13 birthday, a moth ago my 13, I had found a queen of Lasius niger and it started.... And in June of this year I had keeped my first colony from C. vagus queen.... I knew basic information about ants from my 7 :)

ant dude: (18. Nov 2007 23:02)

ant 27: wot bad english? your's seems better than mine lol
wow 4 real i did'nt know somebody alreay asked this in the german forum :shock:

i agree this is intresting :!:

i agree sith i now posses a lot more expirence and good understanding of ants, same ere moving to different species aswell to blood :thumright:

intresting messorus 8)

Purifier: (18. Nov 2007 23:50)

I was captivated in Camponotus ligniperda as is was a little child. Dont know what age :grin:
Any time when i was on a airing trough the forest with my grandparents i stand captivated for many hours in front of a hill from Camponotus ligniperda and watch all the ants scurry on the ground ^^

miszt: (18. Nov 2007 23:52)

my first colony as at 7, but i had no clue what i was doing lol

had a few more colonys when i was about 12, Lasius Niger and a Formica colony that i found a queen of, these went ok, surivived a few years, but i had to get rid of them as my farms where very small

when i was 22 I had 3 camp. colonies and my first cataglyphis colony, cant remeber which of each i had ( i have a very bad memory lol)

now i have all sorts, having experimented allot with diffrent setups :-) i'm still a n00bie tho, lots to learn still, but thats always good, coz if i run out of new things to learn I wont bother with them anymore i'm sure

ant dude: (19. Nov 2007 17:01)

thanks for feedback everyone, voting and replying :D

miszt same with me as i was young when i started colectinging ants i
did'nt know really much about them really at all. although now i know quite a lot about ants, but theres always more to learn :grin:

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