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[Amazant]

Nice looking colonies! I’m super jealous of the F. pallidefulva colony.

Yeah they’re one of my favorites and stay pretty active and grow quite fast.

[Amazant]

I’ve been working in the 10 gallon tank for my camponotus, I am definitely not making a bio active naturalistic setup as that is a ton of work and maintenance and is not great for viewing the ants.
I’m going to put it a few different nests along with test tubes so the ants can choose the one they like best, then plug the other ones up until they need to expand. I also provided a digging area In case they want to dig I’m not sure if it will be good for camponotus though since the grain size is small and don’t know if they even like to live in sand. So it will just be there in case they decide to dig.
I made a fire brick formicarium, and risked it for a few minutes, if there is anything else I need to do to make it safe let me know.

Here are some pictures,

[Amazant]

My ants have been out of hibernation for about one month now and camponotus deceipens and Crematogaster have laid eggs. However today I checked on all my colonies and they all have a good pile of eggs.

Pictures

Camponotus sansabeanus, they had to go in a tube with no outworld since they refused to explode the outworld and didn’t eat anything.


Camponotus Deceipens have eggs and larvae but most of the colony is in a hard to see through tube connected to the mini hearth.


This Crematogaster colony is the fastest growing colony I have and in only 2 months before hibernation they managed to get 30-40 workers and now they have tons more on the way.



I can never get a good picture of the Formica Pallidefulva since they decide to cling to the top of the mini hearth.


So far they have been the least productive with only a two eggs but the queens and workers seem to be doing well.

[ANTdrew]

Nice work!

[Amazant]

I found a few termites today while walking in a forest they were in between a log and some moist soil, I caught around 15.


Will this setup work? The test tube has dirt at the end paper towel in the middle touching the dirt and cotton blocking the entrance, the paper towel is moist.

[ANTdrew]

I think actual wood is better than paper, but nobody has real success with these no matter what they use.

[Amazant]

I think actual wood is better than paper, but nobody has real success with these no matter what they use.

No success with termites or test tubes?
Thanks for your input..

[ANTdrew]

Most people don’t have much luck with eastern termites in general. I sure didn’t.