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Dspdrew's Acromyrmex versicolor Journal [119] (Discontinued)
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dspdrew
, Oct 7 2013 7:08 PM
dspdrew acromyrmex versicolor journal fungus growers leaf cutters
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#301 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 3:44 PM
Good God looks like this spieces might be beyond the ability of the average hobbyist.
#302 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 3:56 PM
Update 10-22-2016
These are doing horribly this year. I had so many queens die, that I drove back out to the desert and picked up another twenty. I had about about six colonies with nanitics, but about four of those just lost their queens. I replaced those queens with some that had no workers yet. When the colonies are this small, the foreign queens and workers always get along just fine. I now have about fifteen queens left. On top of all this, the colony I was borrowing fungus from looks like it's dying again.
Awwwwww man.... Wish u better luck
YJK
#303 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 4:30 PM
Good God looks like this spieces might be beyond the ability of the average hobbyist.
It sure was easy last year, but not at all this year.
#304 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 5:03 PM
that's to bad. I hope things turn around.
Current Colony:
4x Camponotus (hyatti?)
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
-Aldo Leopold
#305 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 5:04 PM
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Edited by Vendayn, March 9 2018 - 7:08 PM.
#306 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 5:09 PM
Nothing's changed.
#307 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 5:57 PM
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#308 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 6:02 PM
Is the queen still alive in that one?
Yes.
#309 Offline - Posted October 22 2016 - 6:19 PM
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Edited by Vendayn, March 9 2018 - 7:09 PM.
#310 Offline - Posted October 27 2016 - 10:05 PM
Update 10-27-2016
I just found another four dead queens. I'm down to 10 new queens/colonies now.
The once large colony that looked like it was dying off, is almost gone now. What's left of the fungus is dying, and most of the workers have died off. I blocked off the fungus chambers they were using, and opened a fresh new chamber on the other side of the entrance chamber. I gave them a new piece of fungus from one of the new queens that recently died. We'll see if they can be revived for a fourth time, although I'm not real hopeful.
#311 Offline - Posted October 28 2016 - 5:09 AM
Sorry your going through this I don't know maybe toss in some peat moss and see how that goes
#312 Offline - Posted October 28 2016 - 6:23 PM
Update 10-28-2016
Found four more queens dead today. There's now only six new queens/colonies left. No news on the older dying colony.
#313 Offline - Posted October 28 2016 - 8:05 PM
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#314 Offline - Posted October 28 2016 - 8:08 PM
I'll have to get a fungus garden going again. I suspect with healthy queens, it shouldn't be too hard, as long as you don't put them in test tubes; the cotton causes them to destroy the fungus pellet.
#315 Offline - Posted October 28 2016 - 8:45 PM
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#316 Offline - Posted October 29 2016 - 8:24 PM
Dang man, hope your colonies that you have stay alive
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#317 Offline - Posted November 14 2016 - 1:36 PM
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Edited by Vendayn, March 9 2018 - 7:09 PM.
#318 Offline - Posted November 14 2016 - 11:47 PM
Update 11-14-2016
All but one new queen is now dead.
#319 Offline - Posted November 15 2016 - 12:27 AM
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#320 Offline - Posted November 15 2016 - 1:33 AM
I don't have any other colonies. That last queen could be dead right now and it wouldn't surprise me. I didn't open my ant cabinet today so I don't know.
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