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A noob with a massive colony of Myrmecia Nigrocincta...

Started By Ants.co , Jul 23 2020 5:59 PM

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#61 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 9 2020 - 5:47 PM

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I'm glad to see this colony is doing better, they're fascinating ants


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#62 Offline Ants.co - Posted October 10 2020 - 9:07 PM

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Yup, they are one of my favourites. 


#63 Offline Ants.co - Posted October 19 2020 - 1:13 PM

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We are up to 30 pupae!!!


#64 Offline Ants.co - Posted November 6 2020 - 11:35 AM

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47 pupae???


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#65 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted November 6 2020 - 12:48 PM

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47 pupae???

are any of them hatching?


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#66 Offline Ants.co - Posted November 10 2020 - 10:41 PM

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More than 5 already hatched. The callows are bright orange and soooo cute UwU


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#67 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 11 2020 - 6:14 AM

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#68 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted November 11 2020 - 7:16 PM

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More than 5 already hatched. The callows are bright orange and soooo cute UwU

pics?


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#71 Offline Ants.co - Posted November 12 2020 - 11:45 PM

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It's kinda impossible to tell on camera... But I've got some macro shots. One is of a worker and the other two are of super chubby larvae spinning their cocoons.  <3

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#72 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 13 2020 - 4:45 AM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!


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#73 Offline Ants.co - Posted December 1 2020 - 7:57 PM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!

Lol they do look pretty awesome.

 

Welp their outworld is disguusting right now and I have a new one, but I can't replace it without getting murdered... Anyone have any tips? Thanks!


#74 Offline DIACAMMAWORLDCOOL - Posted December 1 2020 - 8:42 PM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!

Lol they do look pretty awesome.

 

Welp their outworld is disguusting right now and I have a new one, but I can't replace it without getting murdered... Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

 

Can't you attach it using tubing?


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#75 Offline Ants.co - Posted December 1 2020 - 10:37 PM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!

Lol they do look pretty awesome.

 

Welp their outworld is disguusting right now and I have a new one, but I can't replace it without getting murdered... Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

 

Can't you attach it using tubing?

 

I need to remove the old one tho and no, I cannot attach it because whenever I try to squeeze the tubing into the outworld the cotton blocking it will come off and chaos would erupt... Thanks for the suggestion.


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#76 Offline DIACAMMAWORLDCOOL - Posted December 1 2020 - 10:43 PM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!

Lol they do look pretty awesome.

 

Welp their outworld is disguusting right now and I have a new one, but I can't replace it without getting murdered... Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

 

Can't you attach it using tubing?

 

I need to remove the old one tho and no, I cannot attach it because whenever I try to squeeze the tubing into the outworld the cotton blocking it will come off and chaos would erupt... Thanks for the suggestion.

 

What about pushing the cotton INTO the nest and connecting the tube.So that the cotton blocks the ants from coming out once u connect the tube u can remove the cotton through the tube. All of this still has to be done pretty quick and be sure to careful, if u try it out.


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#77 Offline Ants.co - Posted December 2 2020 - 12:05 AM

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For some reason i've always been in love with mrymecia cocoons they just look right for some reason.​I'm not weird you are!

Lol they do look pretty awesome.

 

Welp their outworld is disguusting right now and I have a new one, but I can't replace it without getting murdered... Anyone have any tips? Thanks!

 

Can't you attach it using tubing?

 

I need to remove the old one tho and no, I cannot attach it because whenever I try to squeeze the tubing into the outworld the cotton blocking it will come off and chaos would erupt... Thanks for the suggestion.

 

What about pushing the cotton INTO the nest and connecting the tube.So that the cotton blocks the ants from coming out once u connect the tube u can remove the cotton through the tube. All of this still has to be done pretty quick and be sure to careful, if u try it out.

 

Oh that's big brain. I don't know how I didn't think of that XD. Thanks, I'll try it out when I have time.


#78 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted December 2 2020 - 5:18 AM

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Ant.co I'm still confused on how you made that much money off of metallica queen  :blink:  


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#79 Offline MinigunL5 - Posted December 2 2020 - 7:59 AM

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can you cool them down a tiny bit?


#80 Offline Ants.co - Posted December 2 2020 - 11:37 AM

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Ant.co I'm still confused on how you made that much money off of metallica queen  :blink:  

Each metallica is like $15 so I catch 10 of them and that is $150! Also I earned quite a bit by spending around a total of 10 hours searching for Myrmecia Nigrocincta, and each one is worth $90. Catch 10 of them and sell them to AKD, and that is $900  :yum2:

 

 

can you cool them down a tiny bit?

I didn't think of that XD Thanks. I'll try it.


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