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Hello Arachnoboards;
Its been awhile since I posted anything relating to my anting, and thought I'd chip in and share a touch of things going on. I unfortunatly lost my large Campanotus Coloney, to a parasitic mold, while fascinating, it was devestating.
It was here, That I discovered A certian formicarium dealer, now I had been toying with the idea of purchasing a premade ytong formicarium, and Let me tell you, After finding the dealer that I did, I am very very pleased with what my decision.
This was a custom made nest made by tarheelants, of course, with the AVP theme, Unfortunatly I havent ha chance to get pictures with its new inhabitants, A small queen Formica Fusca; Or shiny black ant but perhaps I will get time this weekend to take some. but If I may be so shamless to give a little review.
The ant nest itself is flawless, the Glass pristine, the view spectaculair, it came with a nice viel of red plastic, to obscur the light so the ants feel cosey, And a syringe to water it through its unique watering system (small tubs that you stick the syring into and inject water, it helps prevent over watering yet stll escape proof) a nice stand to stand on, and all the supply I could need.
The only downside I find, is that the tubes are at the top, which at a 90* ish angle, means the tubbing tends to run down on sleep angles unless the outworld is a distance away, the ants dislike this, and did not dont like to travel them. I feel ant exits going out the sides or towards the base would of yeilded better result.
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Now for the ant part! since my shameless review is over.
This thread will become my journal, which I will post on hopefully once a weak, to relate to you, the condition of my queen and her nest.
Some back ground info:
This queen was found in the fall last year, over wintered then began production early march, she exploded to twenty workers, and stopped, I feel this may be due to poor husbandry, infact, the worker counts been in decline
I moved her into her new nest roughly a week ago, this new nest is superb, unfortunatly she had no young to be transfered with her, I now think there is about 15 workers or so with her, but they all appear to have fat ghasters; Most likely from my joy of giving them honey.
Thus far, they have not really explored much, more of huddled into a corner, however tonight, I did manage to introduce to them a fresh killed small spiderling, which they seem to have accepted, hopefuly this injection of protien should have the queen start producing again soon. Pics and updates to follow!
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PS: those intrested in tarheel ants, can be found here. I will do an official review section in the review forum, later
http://www.tarheelants.com/
Its been awhile since I posted anything relating to my anting, and thought I'd chip in and share a touch of things going on. I unfortunatly lost my large Campanotus Coloney, to a parasitic mold, while fascinating, it was devestating.
It was here, That I discovered A certian formicarium dealer, now I had been toying with the idea of purchasing a premade ytong formicarium, and Let me tell you, After finding the dealer that I did, I am very very pleased with what my decision.
This was a custom made nest made by tarheelants, of course, with the AVP theme, Unfortunatly I havent ha chance to get pictures with its new inhabitants, A small queen Formica Fusca; Or shiny black ant but perhaps I will get time this weekend to take some. but If I may be so shamless to give a little review.
The ant nest itself is flawless, the Glass pristine, the view spectaculair, it came with a nice viel of red plastic, to obscur the light so the ants feel cosey, And a syringe to water it through its unique watering system (small tubs that you stick the syring into and inject water, it helps prevent over watering yet stll escape proof) a nice stand to stand on, and all the supply I could need.
The only downside I find, is that the tubes are at the top, which at a 90* ish angle, means the tubbing tends to run down on sleep angles unless the outworld is a distance away, the ants dislike this, and did not dont like to travel them. I feel ant exits going out the sides or towards the base would of yeilded better result.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Now for the ant part! since my shameless review is over.
This thread will become my journal, which I will post on hopefully once a weak, to relate to you, the condition of my queen and her nest.
Some back ground info:
This queen was found in the fall last year, over wintered then began production early march, she exploded to twenty workers, and stopped, I feel this may be due to poor husbandry, infact, the worker counts been in decline
I moved her into her new nest roughly a week ago, this new nest is superb, unfortunatly she had no young to be transfered with her, I now think there is about 15 workers or so with her, but they all appear to have fat ghasters; Most likely from my joy of giving them honey.
Thus far, they have not really explored much, more of huddled into a corner, however tonight, I did manage to introduce to them a fresh killed small spiderling, which they seem to have accepted, hopefuly this injection of protien should have the queen start producing again soon. Pics and updates to follow!
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PS: those intrested in tarheel ants, can be found here. I will do an official review section in the review forum, later
http://www.tarheelants.com/