ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

It is not better to wait until hibernation is over. But if you get them now, they are not very active. They just sit there.
If you buy them after hibernation they are active, so you can see them move around and feed them and see some nest activity.
Beware, if the temperature is to low the chance is great that they don't send them. It is better not to ship ants below 5°c.

Greets

[sithmaster676]

i think i will get them in the end of march next year coz they will be active then but as some of you may tell from my other posts on a different topic i have another brand new colonie in hibernation at the moment so what i will do if the worst comes (which i hope it doesnt) i will keep a colonie inside the stater set at the bottom of the page and then when they get larger than the set can hold them i will move them to my 3 foot by 1 foot tank that is kept outside [web]http://www.antstore.net/shop/product_info.php/products_id/751/cPath/58/starter-sets/ANTSTORE-Starter-Set---glassfarm-arena[/web]

[JimmyVe]

You can do that, but don't put 2 different colony's in one farm.

[sithmaster676]

no i wont wot i meant was that if my colony outside doesnt survive the winter then ill move this colony into my outside tank:)

[mpir]

Lasius niger are able to control their number of population. If the aquarium or formicarium will become too small for them, the queen will stop laying eggs. Only when workers number is down for various reasons she will lay eggs again. If you attach new formicarium to the old one they will expand there.

[JimmyVe]

Oh, yes you can do that. That is true.

[sithmaster676]

yes i beleive if i let the new colony settle inside the tank i showed you they will be better off when i move them outside but this will properly never happen because my colony in my shed is more than likely to survive

[JimmyVe]

Hopefully they survive. You can always build another farm. (i have 6 big farms and 3 small ones.) Only than you need to have more room (what i don't have anymore. )

[mpir]

JimmyVe... don't we all have that problem.

[sithmaster676]

yes i to have that problem and it doesnt help that im only 14 years of age so i have taken up room in my dads shed and my bedroom no where else to go oh well ill find somewhere
Sithmaster676

[JimmyVe]

i guess so. If i had a change i build a hole room for my ants...

[sithmaster676]

that would be handy i suppose then you could have the biggest tank you would want

[mpir]

But I guess that wouldn't be practical. To have a big tank size of a room still means that you can only have one colony there... They would enjoy all the luxary thoug.

[sithmaster676]

yeas they would be able to get huge a leaf cutter ant colony would thrive in a tank this big

[JimmyVe]

For leaf cutters this would be an easy farm. now it is difficult to keep such a species.

And so we dream on ...