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[Kale^^]

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[Kale^^]

The colony is doing extremely well. They are not eating fly's, but all the mosquitoes i've given to them have disappeared. They have about 20 ants in the colony and the next generation will be bigger and bigger.

[Messorus]

My M. barbarus had about 35 workers and one smaller major, and I had left them on one my terrarium in our garage, where is about 25°C and we are growing there our plants... I had left them and didn´t moved with them for 1 month, cause they have many seeds in the tube... Now I picked them up and looked.... I was shocked... Population 50 and 20 puppaes!!!!!

[Kale^^]

The are still doing very well. I sold the slightly smaller colony ( i dont need more than 1 ), and this colony has now about 4 majors and maybe 60 workers (hard to count, everytime i open cover half of them run to the arena). I know this colony could be bigger, but i have kept them in nothing more than room temperatures (21-23 celsius) and I haven't fed them as much as i could. Pics you can see: -> http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?f=133&t=8916&p=88614#p88614

[Alby]

I bought one queen in april and she made the first workerk the 27 of may.The colony is growing up very fast, now are about 100 workers with 3 majors that are very big and about 10 majors not so big as the other but more than workers,
I keep them in a y-tong nest dry and twice a week I put some water in three holes for the humidity and every day I give them one or two insects and now they eat even the chiken.

[Kale^^]

I bought one queen in april and she made the first workerk the 27 of may.The colony is growing up very fast, now are about 100 workers with 3 majors that are very big and about 10 majors not so big as the other but more than workers,
I keep them in a y-tong nest dry and twice a week I put some water in three holes for the humidity and every day I give them one or two insects and now they eat even the chiken.

That sounds great! My colony has atleast 5 majors, they are all the same like you described (not biggest but more than normal worker). Try to get some pictures for us.

[Messorus]

Hey guy, I think that you have just medias.. First major appears at population bigger than 60, the smaller majors which Alby have of 10 are medias... I don´t know, but I have population 80 or 70 now and there bored 3 submajors, the biggest major caste!

[Alby]

I've just take this pictures, there are two principal groups and you can see the majors.I've 5 majors, one is hide by the flash in the photo where's the queen and 7 or 8 sub majors the other one are smaller.My colony is not so big.

[gabranth]

i like these ants they started dyeing at first 11 ants to just 6 but now 2 hatched and the larva are starting to turn into pupae. ive been feeding them on fruit flies (the large ones) and cracking open Platahirse seeds and giving them the inners to make ant bread

[JimmyVe]

Nice, i hope they keep on growing so you will have a nice (big) colony soon.

[Kale^^]

Oh my god. These ants are just thriving! They now have a bigger arena (20x30x40cm) and they seem to like it. They have lots of ants (10+) searching all around the "map" . There are about 70-100 ants and many mighty majors!

[JimmyVe]

Very nice, maybe you could consider making a nice nest for them. So they can move in there after hibernation. They will grow very hard next year.

[Kale^^]

Yeah Probably a y-tong one i will.

[akell]

Anyone ever try culling a colony to keep the size down. Please do not jump all over me , I am just curious!

[JimmyVe]

Culling ? What do you mean by that ?