ANTSTORE World of Ants

[Purifier]

But when you buy basins in pet shops keep in your mind that you may have to go to a glass cutter to make two holes into the basin so you can connect more basins to it.
Pet shops normally have meal worms, fruit flys, crickets, locusts and and and. Depends on the size of the Pet shop.....

[ant dude]

ok thanks purifier
ill probaly try mealworm first!!!

does anyone know how they(pet shops) sell live insects? is it done by weight or wot, or how many u regiure or somthing.......else lik that

[Purifier]

I bought some ones a time ago. And in my pet shop its depending on the weight. Thats much easier than count them
I believe its the same in the other shops, cause its really much easier

[miszt]

most of the boxes I have bought of Meal worms/Crickets/Locusts have said 'minium of 30' on the label, costs about £2.50

[Purifier]

30 locusts in one Box? Wow, that must be a big box I can buy them in a box with maybe 3 or 5 ones....

[ant dude]

but wot do u do when u have some of the live food spair? cos u cant just chuck them all i with your ants surely. and they wont keep for ever so do u chuck them outside or somthing like that,in the garden or somthing

thanks 4 help both u guys

lol purufier guess it is a lot easier to do the weight method, than counting them that would take ages

[Purifier]

I have some meal worms and pinkie maggots. I keep them in my cellar and the fridge. So they dont went to flys or beetles.

[JimmyVe]

I also buy all my food at a local pet shop, in boxes. When i come home i put them in hot water for a few seconds, so they die and become bacteria free. Let them cool down and freeze them in. unfreeze them in needed. I know it a bit better to give it to them straight away but now i do not need to go to the store every week and my girlfriend is happy to (i may not keep my food alive. )

[miszt]

buy young locusts, put a bit of celery and a slice of potato in every couple of days, and they will last for a long while, and if they are warm enough they will become full grown

if you dont want to keep them, just put the whole lot inthe freezer and take out one everytime u need them

mealworms and pinkies, as jimmy said, shuld be kept in the fridge (or frozen, but they dont keep as well once they are defrosted)

[mzfckr]

mizst,why in fridge?(mealworms ,pinkies)

[miszt]

mealworms turn into Beetles, Pinkies turn into flies, keeping them cold will slow their development allot, wont stop it of course

[mzfckr]

hmm maybe you can give them flys and beetles?or there are less protein?

[Purifier]

The flys are good,too. But the beetles are hard to hunt and eat cause their chitin armor. The meal worms are hard to eat and hunt, too but the beetles are more ^^

So its better when you keep em cold.

[SteveUK28]

Miszt i had mealworms before.. they never turned into beetles... just dust lol.. i wasnt using them enough and they all died.. sayin that i wasnt feeding them or anything lol In fact.. my ants didnt even like them that much..

[Purifier]

Yeah my Diacammas dont like them well. Like my Camponotus cf. crassus and Messor spec. Only my Polyrhachis dives loves them.
I wait until i feed them all and then go over to pinkies, flys and some other stuff.

The turn to the beetle takes some times. I see it some times by my Polyrhachis. I give them some mealworms but not all was hunted. So they have many time to get to an beetle ^^