Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 25. Mai 2011 07:15

Hey guys well i managed to get a few minutes to play around with my new lenses for my camera , i will have to change some settings on the camera as any macro images i take come up all orange :lol:.

There hasnt been much really to update on , that is usally the case when the leaf cutters are so small its just really a few months of slowly building up before they get more exciting. The Fungus garden is growing well and the queen is healthy aswell , she moves around the fungus garden every now and then. New workers are being born , i have spotted a few slowly walking over the garden, they are a very pale orange.

Well i managed to take one picture but the file was too big and i cannot upload it , i will take some more tonight and maybe also i will try to get a video up :D
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 26. Mai 2011 07:29

Hey guys heres a few pictures i managed to take last night , I do have a video aswell but it doesent seem to upload on here , Maybe somone can explain how to upload videos lol. :D

Atta Queen
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Workers tending the fungus garden
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Fungus garden development so far
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Worker leaf cutting
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And heres the dead fungus garden and Ant grave yard :lol:
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Well thats my update so far if i figure out how to upload this video then ill put that up aswell. :)

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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Niko Holstege » 29. Mai 2011 12:38

Looks good! Very nice and detailed pictures, the first to are beautiful!! :D

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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Fraaap » 29. Mai 2011 12:58

Great setup... i like it :D
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 29. Mai 2011 22:17

Cheers Guys , just waiting for them to slowly build up so they get more interesting lol :grin:



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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 6. Jun 2011 08:39

Hello All , well i am just doing a quick update, Other then a few things not alot has changed. The fungus garden is growing well but i have a few concerns. In my last colony during this founding stage while the colony was small i noticed alot of larva , pupae and new workers almost every week, with this colony im finding very little larva , or pupae or new workers, occasionally i have seen a new worker and a worker carrying a larva across the fungus garden so im not to concerned as of yet. Also they are still cutting :D and adding leaves to the fungus garden 8) so things are ok at the moment.

The queen seems healthy and active and also i managed to get the ants to build a second fungus garden :P I took a spoon and gently cut a bit of the fungus garden with aload of workers on it and placed this in the next container , they took awhile to settle down and a few workers started to move bits of the fungus garden back to the original garden but after a few hours they had stopped and when i put in some leaves they not only carried pieces back to the first fungus garden , they also started adding leaves to this new one :P

A few more pictures :grin:

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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Andie » 7. Jun 2011 08:59

Looking good m8, hopefully mine should arrive today but ive kept my set up simple compared to yours but based on the same idea,,,sort of :) The truth is i ended up using 3 of the other boxes for other ants :oops: but i can always buy more boxes as it hopefully grows ...
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 7. Jun 2011 13:32

O right great one mate :P , take lots of pictures lol , Let us know when they arrive and how they look. :grin:
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 8. Jun 2011 11:40

Hey guys just a quick thing to mention , below is a link to see my youtube page where i put up my leaf cutting ant videos. Plus a few other of my animals lol :grin: .

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Also hows things Andie did you ants arrive ??
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Andie » 8. Jun 2011 12:38

Hi Adam, they were sent yesterday and arrive 9 am this morning. On opening the box i noticed the queen was on top of the fungus and larvae and pupae scattered everywhere. Must have had a bumpy ride. Just got home for lunch and the queen has gone to the bottom of all the tissue and the workers have collected the larvae and deposited them around her but leaving the fungus. Ill sort this out when i finish work tonight.
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 8. Jun 2011 14:15

Great news mr , cannot wait to hear your experiances. Pics would be great aswell :grin:

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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Andie » 8. Jun 2011 20:14

So i got home and looked forward to moving the fungus into one of the small boxes like Adams but there was no form to it just a pile of dust. The queen was still under the paper at the bottom of the plastic sandwich container it all arrived in, so i carefully peeled back the paper to find another pile of dust :( There could be another somewhere i suppose. Anyway i took a pic and it actually looks healthy but would like another opinion please, it seems to be covered with the white fiberous strands that the ants feed on and the ants are tending to both gardens. :)
Iv'e decided not to disturb anything and wait a while to see if it grows in situ. The whole thing is placed in a small 36L x 24H x 21D cm arena at 23.5 c with 82 RH with Bisque tiles.
Iv'e also cut off access to the pipes ..

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Oh and i found some eggs

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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon adam james » 9. Jun 2011 07:16

Hello Andie could you take anymore pics of the gardens ? the one pic there is that what the whole garden looks like ?.

Nice larva and pupae and eggs =D>
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon SteveUK28 » 15. Jun 2011 09:56

Looking good guys :D
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Re: Leaf cutting Ant Farm Project

Beitragvon Niko Holstege » 19. Jun 2011 22:49

Hey Adam,

How's your colony doing at the moment? Is your 'second' fungus still growing? The pictures are looking very good again!
I was wondering why you scooped up a piece of the original fungus.... Aren't the ants supposed to start a new one themselves? And how did you make sure you didn't damage/hurt the larvea and eggs that were in the fungus?

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