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[Broncos]

A while ago I got a pogonomyrmex rugosus queen with three workers. One worker died but then another one enclosed from its pupae and that's where I am now. They are housed in a small starter formicarium.

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[Broncos]

[smares]

What kind of seeds do they have? Have you noticed them eating the seeds?

[Broncos]

What kind of seeds do they have? Have you noticed them eating the seeds?

Yes i've seen them take the large red and large white ones. I got the seeds from dspdrew when I baught the harvester ants. (from drew)

The link to the seeds is here:https://www.formicul...eping-products/

Scroll all the way down and you will see them

Edited by Broncos, October 18 2019 - 7:57 AM.

[Broncos]

This colony has a small batch of eggs but litterally nothing has happened.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

Well, atleast they have eggs. Some people would be more than willing to do anything for eggs from a queen of any given species

[Apex]

From my experience I have never had rugosus ever be sucessful unless they are able to dig.

[Broncos]

From my experience I have never had rugosus ever be sucessful unless they are able to dig.

Oh wow thanks! I will take that into account

[dspdrew]

Every colony I have ever had started off producing very slowly.

[Broncos]

Every colony I have ever had started off producing very slowly.

With your huge successful p rugosus colony that passed away... did you raise the queen in a test tube?

[YsTheAnt]

I have a one year old colony that's at around 15 workers. By far the slowest growing Pogonomyrmex around. Feed them well and they explode though, especially in dirt setups.

[dspdrew]

 

Every colony I have ever had started off producing very slowly.

With your huge successful p rugosus colony that passed away... did you raise the queen in a test tube?

 

 

I actually did. You can read all about it in my journal here (https://www.formicul...pdated-8-4-2019). As you can see, the colony started out growing extremely slow, but then started blowing up in size after about 9 months. If you notice my update from March of the next year, it says they only had 8 workers, then about 6 months later, they had 80 workers.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

I wish most ants were like that. Would make ant keeping extremely interesting to say the least

[Broncos]

These ants are in a dirt box formicarium at the very bottom doing well

[Broncos]

EGGS have been spotted!! These guys didn't have any brood at all before so this is a good sign.

[Broncos]

No brood and there is only one worker.   Hopefully they can pull through.

[TheMicroPlanet]

Is P. Rugosus brood-boostable?

[TennesseeAnts]

Yes.

[Broncos]

Do you think it is safe to boost with P Californicus?

[YsTheAnt]

I have yet to see a species that brood boosting is unsafe for. Worst case scenario they make a meal out of it.

Edited by YsTheAnt, December 17 2019 - 2:02 PM.