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[Daint]

Hello i'm Very new to this hobby so excuse me if i say wrong or something I'm thinking about building my own y-tong nest, i think i got all the materials but lacks in experience

So my first q is: how big should the nest and the arena be i thinking having a Lasius niger colony

Second q is: what should i use to carve the y-tong?? (send links and pics because i'm Swedish so i don't understand the tools)

And last could you send me some links and pics on ideas for my y-tong nest, how i should carve and stuff

Apologies for the terrible English hope you can read it

ps: don't know if this should be in this index or questions for beginners but i put it here because of i gonna lay up some pics later on my nest here

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I corrected a bit from you're writings.

[Kale^^]

Hej, och välkommen här

What size colony are you going to get ? If you get a very small colony i suggest you use a test tube attached into the bottom of a jar, they should be fine in it until some 30-50 workers. When the colony is big enough you can make a y-tong maybe 10x10cm and some chambers (about 3cm*3cm*1cm)

As tools you can use a Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar, or a Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar
or a drill with a carving tip.

Search around and you'll find LOTS of pics of nests

[JimmyVe]

Hello Daint and welcome.

This is the wright topic to post youre message.

To start with you could use a tube for your colony (like Kale said). Put the colony in a tube and connect this tube to a out world, there you can feed your ants.

When the colony gets bigger (second year) you can make a bigger nest.
There are a lot of pictures of y-tongs nest here at the forum, you can use the search engine to find them.

Good luck and have fun with your ants.

[Daint]

Thx for the good answers yeah i just gonna get a aquarium at a pet store nearby, should i get a pretty big aquarium so i can use it later to connect with my y-tong nest??

[JimmyVe]

You could buy a bigger farm, that way your ants can grow into it and you don't need to buy a new one when the colony is getting bigger.

[Daint]

ill do that :

[Daint]

ohh sorry for that i thought i would have my colonie in a testtube for 2 years xD

[JimmyVe]

Some species i keep in tubes for more than 2 years. If they grow slow i leave them in there tube. When that tube is getting to small i give them a new tube.

I use plastic containers (small aquariums) and i put the tubes in there. The tubes are the nest and the container is the out world. Sometimes i go up to 3 tubes before i move them into a bigger farm. But like i said, that depends on the species, how big the workers are and how fast they grow.

[Daint]

Lasius niger how long for them??

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How fast does the Lasius niger grow??

[JimmyVe]

I kept my Lasius niger colony in tubes for about 1,5 years. (i had 3 tubes )
They do fine in tubes, i moved them when there where about 150-200 workers. They grow very fast. My colony (if i'm not mistaken) is 2,5 years old and i have +-500 workers now.

[Daint]

nice =D i will see but i think i move them in pretty early becouse i so want to se them settle down so about 4 workers