ANTSTORE World of Ants

[Phasmid]

Hi,
Just a few pics of my Acromyrmex octospinosus. Had these guys for about 4 and a half years now.

[Phasmid]

Progress on new enclosure

[Phasmid]

Just moved them into the new setup. Hopefully they will explore the setup and move out of the foraging arena and into one of the nest boxes.

Halfway through the transfer process: removing the fungus garden from the old enclosure...


... And as they are at the moment in the foraging arena of the new setup

[Andie]

Want !!! very nice

[Phasmid]

So, the nest move when very well, much quicker than I expected. Within minutes of being placed in the foraging area, some workers were already exploring the nest boxes, and within a few hours, they had begun moving the fungus garden into them. The whole move was complete after about 2 days. I saw the queen sitting on one of the fungus gardens and she looked healthy, except for a missing antenna.
Soon after they finished moving, they began cutting leaves again and now they seem to be back to normal operations with a healthy fungus garden . Annoyingly, they have piled earth up the front of the nest boxes, so it is quite hard to take pictures of the fungus garden. The ants that escaped during the transfer from the old enclosure to the new one decide to dig up my pot plants .

[adam james]

Loving the setup mate , great pictures

Adam

[Phasmid]

Thanks

[mastadox]

Awesome setup man!
Great pictures. i wish i had a decent camera. so i could make some of mine.

I have Acromyrmex octospinosus aswel.
It seems they have reached a steady amount of ants now and do not seem to grow or shrink.
Do you experiance the same thing?

Here is a (sorry) bad quality movie of my silly setup

[deansie26]

Top set up Phasmid, new set up looks great! Do you have any recent pics?
Also could you tell me where you got the boxes, pipe and fittings?

thanks

Jamie