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Crematogastor Q&A/ Sharing Thread

Started By Canadant , Oct 1 2019 10:12 AM

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#21 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 1 2019 - 6:21 PM

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Good point. Mine still haven’t figured out to escape their AC outworld...yet.
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#22 Offline Wa.Va - Posted October 2 2019 - 2:20 AM

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They can chew the plastic tubes so easily. Its normal to replace each tubing every 3 weeks. I'm waiting until the day will come they escape. Although they can survive a long dry area. They really like it when i spray water. Tehy must have wood. There is a small tiny twig in their outworld. This is always full with lots of workers

#23 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 2 2019 - 4:31 AM

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Wa.Va., do you think if I put a big piece of soft wood in an enclosure that they would move in readily? I have failed miserably to move mine into anything, and I don't want to dump them. They're stubborn as heck.


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#24 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 2 2019 - 4:40 AM

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I would move them into a more natural, yet observable nest. Like a Fortress.

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#25 Offline Canadian anter - Posted October 2 2019 - 5:40 AM

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My Crematogaster colonies combine into a little ball of condensed heart-butt when they're exposed to the cold (like in the fridge). You could probably try to cool them down and just dump the ball of worker out if they do the same
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#26 Offline Wa.Va - Posted October 2 2019 - 6:10 AM

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Wa.Va., do you think if I put a big piece of soft wood in an enclosure that they would move in readily? I have failed miserably to move mine into anything, and I don't want to dump them. They're stubborn as heck.


Hmm, i have scutellaris, so they could show u differently behavior, but yh they rlly adore wood

#27 Offline Canadant - Posted October 2 2019 - 6:29 AM

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How about crematogastor food?

Mine don't like honey. Odd. They are frantic for sugar water though. If I put a drop on a fork tip or chopstick, they'll be chasing and drinking from it before I can drop it in their dish.

They don't love the crickets but will tolerate them. They didn't like ape and had some of cooked chicken.

Catching more here and there around my home.
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#28 Offline DJoseph98 - Posted October 2 2019 - 2:15 PM

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How about crematogastor food?

Mine don't like honey. Odd. They are frantic for sugar water though. If I put a drop on a fork tip or chopstick, they'll be chasing and drinking from it before I can drop it in their dish.

They don't love the crickets but will tolerate them. They didn't like ape and had some of cooked chicken.

Catching more here and there around my home.

Mine love flightless fruit flies, hunting them down or scavenging dead. You would think they are hard to contain but its pretty easy
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Current Colonies

1 x Camponotus nearcticus (Monogynous), 1 x Crematogaster cerasi (Monogynous), 1 x Formica cf. subsericea (Polygynous Two-Queen), 1 x Formica cf. pallidefulva (Monogynous, single worker),

1 x Lasius cf. americanus (Pleometrotic Founding, now Monogynous), 1 x Tetramorium immigrans (Monogynous)

 

Current Founding Units

1 x Formica cf. subsericea (Monogynous)

 

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#29 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted October 2 2019 - 2:18 PM

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Nice, looks like I'm going to have to keep an eye out for these little guys


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#30 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted October 2 2019 - 2:55 PM

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Here’s a question for CrematoMasters: what kind of wood should I search out for a natural nest for C. cerasi? I’m hoping to find a cool looking piece of driftwood that’s soft enough for them to tunnel in.

Pine Pine Pine. And unless your dealing with an entirely arboreal species then I would definitely add dirt to the setup and partially submerge the wood in it. Also, you'll see Crematogaster nesting just underneath flat chunks of pine wood on the ground in the wild. They're not always in the wood, but rather using it for cover so that they can be as close to the hot surface as possible without being in the open. 


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#31 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted October 2 2019 - 2:57 PM

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Would a THA Formicarium work as well?


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#32 Offline Canadant - Posted October 2 2019 - 4:56 PM

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How about crematogastor food?

Mine don't like honey. Odd. They are frantic for sugar water though. If I put a drop on a fork tip or chopstick, they'll be chasing and drinking from it before I can drop it in their dish.

They don't love the crickets but will tolerate them. They didn't like ape and had some of cooked chicken.

Catching more here and there around my home.

Mine love flightless fruit flies, hunting them down or scavenging dead. You would think they are hard to contain but its pretty easy

Hmmm.... i wonder where can I get flightless fruit flies in cannabis Canada?

I gave them some cooked hamburger tonight and they like that.
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#33 Offline Canadant - Posted October 2 2019 - 4:59 PM

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I like crematogastor because they're so chill. They just go at a slower speed than my other ants. My camponotus novaeboracensis are very chill too.


Question: my crematogastor have brought in debris from the outworld. I wonder if they're stock piling for winter. Looks like pieces of cricket. I wonder why?

I'm thinking of breaking up some old wood chips into tiny pieces. Maybe they would like that in their formicarium.
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#34 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 2 2019 - 5:07 PM

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I’m sure they would like that.
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#35 Offline Formicoidea - Posted October 3 2019 - 12:59 AM

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I'd really like a crematogaster colony and i know there are some crematogaster colonies around my house. 

I've got no idea when they fly though, and i can't find anything online about it.

Any CrematoMasters know? 

Don't forget, I'm in Australia..


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Current Queens/Colonies:

- Iridomyrmex Bicknelli                          - Iridomyrmex Sp. (x2)

- Camponotus Consobrinus                - Camponotus Sp.

- Myrmecia Sp.                                        - Rhytidoponera Metallica

- Rhytidoponera victoriae                       - Notoncus Sp. (x2)

- Anonychomyrma Cf. Froggatti (x6)

#36 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 3 2019 - 5:18 AM

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They fly in mid and late summer.
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#37 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted October 3 2019 - 2:46 PM

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They fly in mid and late summer.

July: starts

Me: :clever: CoMe OuT cOmE oUt WhErEvEr YoU aRe


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#38 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 3 2019 - 3:32 PM

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They fly in mid and late summer.

July: starts
Me: :clever: CoMe OuT cOmE oUt WhErEvEr YoU aRe
Labor Day is the magic day for me looking for these 12:00-3:00pm.
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#39 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted October 3 2019 - 3:50 PM

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Nice, too bad I was looking for the wrong species that day lol


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#40 Offline Mirandarachnid - Posted October 4 2019 - 8:42 AM

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My first Crematogastor workers just eclosed yesterday  :lol:

 

I'm probably going to wait for the rest of the pupa to eclose before I hibernate them.


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