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[Skippy]

normally for queens I using honey:water 1:3 ... but sometimes I making mixture for all ants (one time a week) , that same , but with egg and a bit sugar , a bit of water and reptile vitamins

[ashhad1]

that would give a queen all the things she needs to grow lot of larvae, hehe i can imagin skippy there with a chef hat making his ant mixture lol

[SteveUK28]

do u give her that in a pill tablet thingy? or just on some cotton wool?

[Skippy]

I getting it only into "pill tablet thingy" ... I´ve never get it on cotton , you must to change food every 2 day

[Kale^^]

Hehe, i'm jealous, u guys have the ants i so badly want..

I gave my hercu queens some honeywater with sugar init, they ate all (full pill tablets), now they're nice n fat, could up some pics..


those pill tablet thingy's are very useful, since they are easy to use, they dont spill all the food in the tube and get it dirty, and i can get much of those easily(grandparents eat painkillers etc drugs madly)

[SteveUK28]

WoOHoO... First worker born this afternoon.. il get a pic tomorrow prob

Currently have about 10 larvae and a bunch of eggs

[JimmyVe]

Great Steve, good luck with them, they are really nice ants. Mine or not moving on much now, not a lot of new workers. But i blame the weather.

I turned off all of my heat mats because it is summer now, but the temperature is lower than it was in spring. I'm considering to turn back on the heating.

[mpir]

So I guess "The Ants" is right about two periods of Camponotus queen laying eggs. All spring my C. vagus had a lot of brood in the nest. They grew from 8 workers to 50+. There used to be 20+ cocoons in the nest now there are maybe 5. I guess by the end of the summer queen will lay again and then hybernate with lots of larva.


Oh, and Steve, congrats and welcome to the club.

[SteveUK28]

lol mpir thankyou.. I do like the vagus.. How long did u guys wait before you moved them to a ytong?

@Jimmy.. do you always turn off ur heat mats this time of year even for your Camp substitutus?

[SteveUK28]

Pics for you guys...

Also the second pic of the test tube.. Has any1 else had the water turn this colour? Why does it do it?? and is it dangerous?

[JimmyVe]

@Jimmy.. do you always turn off ur heat mats this time of year even for your Camp substitutus?

If the weather is better yes. (saves energy) But now i have them turned back on. My South European ants have to do without the heats mats until fall.

Don't worry about the colour of the water. Happens all the time. You could provide them a second tube so they can move if necessary.

[Skippy]

this color is by bacteria lives in cotton , it is not dangerous because special feremon kill all bacteria near brood chamber , but it looks better if you will move colony to new tube. I do not using normal cotton , I using aqua-filter cotton
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because it do not "rot" like normal cotton which are you using