Ant colony
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I don’t have ants. But might enjoy getting into them down the road.
Ponerinecat
Arachnobaron
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Good ol fire ants.
Yep, got some eggs already. Love it.
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caught some Tetramorium immigrans queens about 2 weeks ago and she’s already got tons of eggs and larvae, i’ll have to snap some pics for this thread!
scolopendra277
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yes, I keep a lot! Not catching too many queens now as it's winter in Australia.
Good deal!
My sister's house has lots of Camponotus Pennsylvanicus, hopefully I can find a queen of those soon.
What species you got
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I've started looking into ants again. My first lot failed sadly due to something I'll have done wrong.
If I do get some more I'll get a more beginner friendly species and an ant kit so I can maintain things better.
If I do get some more I'll get a more beginner friendly species and an ant kit so I can maintain things better.
did you order online or catch it?
(Heres a photo of the fire ant with eggs)
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I bought them online. Everything was fine for a while. New brood etcetera. But slowly the workers started dying. Really don't know what I did wrong but clearly did.
That's why if I do get some more I'd definitely look at having a more laboratory set up so I could get environmental things right.
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ooh i kept camponotus a few years back, amazingg species. i’ve been trying so hard to find some more though, i miss keeping them
scolopendra277
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I have myrmecia, camponotus, phiedole, polyrhachis, meranoplus, notoncus, and anonychromyrma.
Emi248
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This also happened with me, mine all died off
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I used to have a small colony of Myrmecocystus mexicanus because a friend had been nice enough to give me a spare queen he found. They did great for about 2 1/2 years, and then my landlord, during an inspection, found them and said hell no. So I gave them back to the friend I'd gotten them from. They were a lot of fun when I had them though.
Ponerinecat
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Any idea what species the Meranoplus are? Love the genus, Australian species are too often undescribed.
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I'm afraid of ants, but still like to watch "Ants Canada" I definitely recommend watching his videos to learn more about their care
scolopendra277
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they're meranoplus pyuri. it took me forever to get the species, I had to go on to antmaps and look up every single species in the area. not fun.
Ponerinecat
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What luck, the puryi/rugosus dumpster fires are the most problematic groups in Australia
Chances are high you have an unnamed species in your care, the documented ones I know of already equal the described species in number. As of right now the diversus group is the only somewhat completely group thanks to Schodl. Do you happen to have pictures?
Chances are high you have an unnamed species in your care, the documented ones I know of already equal the described species in number. As of right now the diversus group is the only somewhat completely group thanks to Schodl. Do you happen to have pictures?
Thane1616
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I am 32 years old, never owned any ants, never had any interest but recently started watching the YT channel AntsCanada. Ants seem like amazing fun but after a 2 hour nature walk yesterday I had no luck finding anything. My only concern is getting mites that spread to my scorpions and dubia roach colony. Probably could avoid this issue with captive bred ants if that is a thing?!??