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[ant kid]

Hello,

Well recently 3 niger queen have died and 2 lone queen which were doing fantastic with alot of brood which were mostly larvae and 1 queen who started lone but 7 workers hatched and today they were all dead They are in test tubes and it seems it was to do with humidity that it was all kind of wet, i dont know what I have done wrong themps are around 22C - 24C max.

Thanks,

ant kid

[UneXisted]

Did you hibernated them?

[ant kid]

yes

[matt-man123]

How did you wake them up?

matt

[JimmyVe]

Maybe you wake them up to fast.

[matt-man123]

what i was thinking jimmy!

[ant kid]

I woke them up in mid february and hibernated around late september

[matt-man123]

Did you get them straight out?

[JimmyVe]

Wat Matt (and I) are trying to tell. If you wake your ants up from hibernation you need to do it slowly. A few degrees a day/week. Not from 10-20°c in once day.

[ant kid]

I know I graduated the temps slowly in about 1 week took for normal temps

[matt-man123]

The only other thing is, did you keep their test tubed moist?

[ant kid]

Yes it was a bit moist

[JimmyVe]

Well somethimes there is just no explenation for it. Maybe they where just not strong enough to survive.