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Started By M_Ants , May 14 2020 5:33 PM

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#1 Offline M_Ants - Posted May 14 2020 - 5:33 PM

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This feels useful for something ant related but I'm not sure what?

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Also on a unrelated note, what is your favorite tarheel formicarium.


Edited by M_Ants, May 14 2020 - 5:36 PM.

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Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

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#2 Offline TechAnt - Posted May 14 2020 - 5:44 PM

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This feels useful for something ant related but I'm not sure what?



 
Also on a unrelated note, what is your favorite tarheel formicarium.


Question 1: Honestly, test tube holder possibly? Or just for putting ant stuff like vinyl tubing. Making a formicarium out of that would be hard, and turning that into a outworld seems a bit pointless.
Question 2: Mini Hearth (normal or XL) all the way!
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My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#3 Offline M_Ants - Posted May 15 2020 - 1:50 PM

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Anyone else?


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#4 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted May 15 2020 - 1:54 PM

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That would actually be wonderful for formicarium making, given the smooth bottom. I'm not sure how big it is, but given some plexiglass (or real glass for that matter) I could and would make a nice hydrostone plaster nest.


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#5 Offline M_Ants - Posted May 15 2020 - 1:57 PM

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2.5" X 2.5" and .5" tall


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

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Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

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#6 Offline jushi - Posted May 15 2020 - 2:08 PM

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That could make a great founding chamber! Just add some substrate and you should be good to go!


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Tapinoma Sessile (founding) x3
Tapinoma Sessile x1
Camponotus Pennsyvanicus x2
Prenolepis Imparis (founding) x2
Myrmecina Americana (founding) x1
Myrmecina Americana x1

#7 Offline Serafine - Posted May 15 2020 - 2:28 PM

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You can try to add some grout or sand-clay mixture. Looks like a great founding chamber or mini-outworld for ants like Myrmica, basically like a fancy petri dish.


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#8 Offline TechAnt - Posted May 19 2020 - 10:14 AM

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Now that you say the dimensions, perfect founding chamber if you turn it into one!
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#9 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 19 2020 - 11:26 AM

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Also on a unrelated note, what is your favorite tarheel formicarium.

The Palladium. It's actually the only THA formicarium I've ever owned.......  :lol:


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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