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[miszt]

yeah she has food, she was munching on a cricket yesterday washed down wiv sum honey, i recon it juz drownd

[miszt]

I found the queen dead today i've had a look in the test tube, and its crawling with tiny white mites! not happy AT ALL. will be onto the shop I bought her from this afternoon to find out why theyr selling queens in this condition, also the cotton wool is very slimey, i suspect its full of bacteria

[JimmyVe]

I'm sorry to hear that miszt.

[miszt]

The shop has very kindly agreed to send me a replacement queen

[JimmyVe]

Great, not much shops do this.

[miszt]

My nu queen arrived today, looking very healthy and happy one worker also, 3 pups, 2 larvae and 3 eggs hopefully she will accept the few eggs from my dead queen aswell, but i'm not gona be to hopeful about that!

Great example of good'ol Royal Mail (UK) the box arrived completly snapped in half! the plastic test tube was very badly cracked, I usually prefer glass test tubes, but in this case I'm glad it was plastic otherwise the queen would have escaped and died


All good tho shes arrived, n i'm bak on track

[JimmyVe]

she looks fine, hope she will raise a nice colony for you.

[miszt]

2nd worker hatched today, went to get me camera to film it but me gf has taken it to work! boo!

was great watching the queen and worker carefully unwrapping her from her coccon

[miszt]

As these ant colonys grow so slowly, i've deiceded that the big tank is a bit pointless at the moment, so i've moved them into a small one (20x10x10) which i've made into a farm basin, gona use the big one for sum somthing else I think, maybe sum honey pot ants

[JimmyVe]

not a bad idea, but in a few years you probably will need a big tank for this colony to.

[Skippy]

Nice young colony miszt ... your ants collection groing very fast ... day and day ,more and more ants !

Yes ,you must use bigger tank as arena ,when colony will be bigger ,it is only good for ants ,ants like big region to searching food and walking on sunlight

Skippy

[miszt]

Decieded to make a Ytong nest, as i wanted to test out a humidification idea n its working nicly, colony is doing very well, 5 workers, 12 eggs and 4 Larvae



Humidification system highlighted (am also using a trough while i test it, just incase it doesnt work well enough)



Queen, Workers n Brood

[sithmaster676]

nice looking setup and colony there i hope they go well for you
Sithmaster676

[miszt]

they are great ants to keep really nice to watch the solical interaction as they are so big, can almost hear them sitting round discussing the whats gonna happen in the next episode of Eastenders

[mpir]

The "Ytong" you use looks way more like concrete and not like Ytong. Not much bubles in the material. It must be much harder to work on like on brittle Ytong.