ANTSTORE World of Ants

[hypervelocity]

Hi all, i was wondering if any of you know anything about leaf cutter ants. i.e what to put them in, food, tempretur and any more info you could help me with.

[JimmyVe]

Hi hypervelocity. I keep a small colony of them myself. They are very hard to keep i must say, if you like keeping them you need a bit of experience.
The one i keep are from Argentina, they need a temperature from 25°c to 30°c and a humidity from about 70% i feed them much leafs (of course) from different plants and sometimes also some bugs and sugar water or honey.
I don't know if you know it but they make a fungus garden from the leafs. The live from that for 90%.

[Philsen]

Sry, but Leaf Cutter´s are nothing for Kids....

[hypervelocity]

thanks JimmyVe, i now about the fungus and am not going to buy them myself (yet) they are level 3 ant the only ants i have are Lasius flavus, Messor barbarus, Lasius niger and Camponotus ligniperda LOL.

[Kiam]

And your 13 cool

People in my school will think its sad to have ants lol I think its interesting

[JimmyVe]

If they think that is sad, they in deed don't now that ants are very interesting.

That is nice hypervelocity, this are nice species to start of with. If you have a bit more experience you may try some harder species.

[hypervelocity]

Me 2 lol, every one makes jokes about me keeping ants, but i want to be a profecianl Myrmecologist when i grow up.

Also to anny other vewers: What kind of basin would i keep laef cutters in?

[Kiam]

Jimmy i ordered some ants of the antstore and the cost to get to my house costs more than the ants LOL one off the shipments was £90 isnt that wayyyyyyy to much for shipment lol
My shipment is 10 pound which is still quite high lol

[hypervelocity]

Reply to JimmyVe: thank Jim, i will as i grow more wiser about ants.

[JimmyVe]

That is the saddest part about ordering from antstore, the shipping cost, but there is not much you can do about that.

The easiest farm to keep them in is a sand nest i think.

[Kiam]

The thing that interested me there was there was a colony with 1000+ and 1-5 queens lol it was quite alot to but It was red so that must mean they have none lol