16th December - They arrived today hurray!
They came very well packed with a heat pack that was still fairly warm (pretty good considering its winter).
I set my farm up (minor hitch when realised my converter didn’t fit the plug) and after the sensor measured 22 I put the ants inside (I had left them in their packing with the heat pack until it warmed up) and inspected them. As far as i could tell there was a queen, a very very small amount of fungi (lucky I ordered more with it), some brood/eggs and I think 1-2 ants. Little disappointed with the amount of ants but I got what I ordered. One other thing is that the extra fungi I ordered with the ants had a couple of ants in the tube with it.. Is that from the same colony to make sure the fungus doesn’t die or what? I left them in the tank with something covering it to block the light... Should I have put them in with them?
Heat is 25 and humidity is 60% hopefully the hydrometer is warming up or something..
What I got (for people who are wondering about getting them their selves)
1 x Thermo Control II
1 x Heat Thermo Mat 7 W
1 x Bentonit 200gs
1 x Acromyrmex spec. (from Argentina)
- shipping: For these ant colony, we need a risk class declaration
- Size: Queen + 1-3 worker
- extra2: with winter package + heatpack 36h
1 x fungus from Acromyrmex spec. (aus Argentinien)
1 x Hygrometer Rept-O-Meter
I’m not going to check on them for another few hours.
Hurray for ants!
Might upload pics, need to get camera working.
Hope I get replies!