ANTSTORE World of Ants

[flanimal]

hi, im buying this http://www.antstore.net/shop/product_in ... arena.html
and i was wondering what else i need? im going to get lasius niger queen and workers, for water im going to do the testube with cotton wool method.
1 how many lasius niger do i need?
2 will they outgrow their home.?
3 how much/what do i feed them?
4 how do you keep their soil/sand damp.(spray once a day?)
5 what do i need to do in the habitat to keep them healthy... i.e queen and humidity and cleaning and food etc.
6 do the workers make the queen a nest?
7 any other points which you think i need to know will really come in handy. thankyou

[Purifier]

The search function is really a cool function

1. How many you NEED? You need only a queen ^^ But then you have to be patient for a colony. So the best is you order a colony
2. In the future yes. But until the farm is to small you have to wait some time
3. How much: depends on the size of the colony but Lasius niger dont need much at the beginning (is only a little ant)
What: some honey or marple sirup, water, and proteins (insects, spiders and stuff like that)
4. I spray 1 or 2 times a day the arena water in the Arena
5. You need a place with 4-8°C, humidity have to be the same like in the normal time. Ants clean up by their own. And in hibernation they dont need food.
6. Yes the workers dig tunnels ans chambers for the queen
7. Hmm dont know. I believe at the moment not ^^

[ant dude]

The search function is really a cool function

indeed it is

[Purifier]

Yeah, i mean you could use it too
These questions were already answered many times before ^^

[ant dude]

yeah,it must be a newsence to keep answering them questions over and over AGAIN!!! dont u just get p*ssed off lol

flanimal search before asking please,it really does saves a whole lot of trouble

[JimmyVe]

Hello flanimal and welcome to the forum.

I think its nice you would like to keep ants, but maybe you need to learn a bit more about them before you start keeping them. Read a bit on the forum. And don't be afraid to use the search engine.