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Started By KitsAntVa , Aug 19 2020 10:13 AM
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#41 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:08 AM

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wait a minute how big is yours  :o


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#42 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:10 AM

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also have you ever had any morphs in your colony or is mine just the genes the queen was born with.


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#43 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:12 AM

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Awesome! My Pogonomyrmex are in the mail from Spazmops!


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#44 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:14 AM

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Awesome! My Pogonomyrmex are in the mail from Spazmops!

Yes! i would love to see a journal but keep in mind i've never seen someone raise these to over 10 workers without a mini hearth.


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#45 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:14 AM

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his has like 150-300 workers and TONS of brood. they cover everything in brood.


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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#46 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:15 AM

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Very nice i plan to keep mine until they die or get to big for my liking, what set up does he have them in because i need to know how many they can get to in a fortress before having to move.


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#47 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted October 19 2020 - 9:54 AM

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he has them in a station, a paludarium, and 2 homemade outworlds.


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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#48 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 10:19 AM

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A station is like the best thing in THA shop to get for Pogonomyrmex because they would die with the water tower, i'm going to get a station to add onto my fortress this christmas.


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#49 Offline TechAnt - Posted October 19 2020 - 10:25 AM

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A station sounds cool for honeypots too. 


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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

#50 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 10:27 AM

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Uhhhh i just fed them some fruit flies and i was very wrong because when they were on the water tower a month back there were 20 and not even coming close to the edges of the tower, well now i would say they are about 40-45 because they were all tucked in the corner so i'm going to email mack and ask him when my order will be here because i need it noooow, they came out the corner and they are covering the whole mini hearth. Mine may outgrows yours antsdakota!


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#51 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted October 19 2020 - 10:56 AM

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Uhhhh i just fed them some fruit flies and i was very wrong because when they were on the water tower a month back there were 20 and not even coming close to the edges of the tower, well now i would say they are about 40-45 because they were all tucked in the corner so i'm going to email mack and ask him when my order will be here because i need it noooow, they came out the corner and they are covering the whole mini hearth. Mine may outgrows yours antsdakota!

i unfortunately do not believe that is true, as his are growing crazy fast and have a head start on yours. but we will see.


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#52 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted October 19 2020 - 11:38 AM

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his has like 150-300 workers and TONS of brood. they cover everything in brood.

You do mean 200, 300 is too high.


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"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

 

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Tetramorium immigrans

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

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#53 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 19 2020 - 1:53 PM

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Ohhhh 200
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#54 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 20 2020 - 10:09 AM

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Back to back updates.

Fed these again today a big cricket so it couldn't go in there nest and they were scared!? they showed their mandibles then ran away which surprised me because yesterday they took down so many things, i think the key to these is to actually either fill their outworld with seeds or feed them a little seeds and a ton of meats like cricket fruit flies and termites. I have still around 45 workers and 7 callows as well as 3 morphed workers which 2 have big major like heads and the other has a aphaenogaster picea colored head, my workers despite only being at 45 are the size of normal ones you would find in the wild because i feed them like pheidole.


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#55 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted October 21 2020 - 3:54 AM

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You should give them more seeds than protein. That is their natural diet.


#56 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 21 2020 - 7:20 AM

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They already have tons stored in the nest and outside.


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#57 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted October 21 2020 - 7:23 AM

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Yep, that's the key.


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"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

#58 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 21 2020 - 2:12 PM

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I’ve never seen something so brutal before. I fed my Pogonomyrmex a baby red runner roach which was just a little bigger than the nest entrance fo the mini hearth. A foraging worker was scared as usual and ran away until a worker from the nest liked it and decided they should eat it. Instead of killing it in the outworld they dragged it into the nest and I looked under and the roach was dead in less than a second swarmed by 20 or so workers stinging biting I could barely even see the roach there were so many workers covering it.
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#59 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:01 PM

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Finally finally finally I actually am going to do what I say for once. Here you go guys and girls. These are the bearded bois a month back in a week hibernation.5F8082CE-2172-4D27-92AE-0089E2452EA9.jpeg 23A52DB9-8417-4197-9953-CA2283E8B574.jpeg 97C9504C-C02A-422D-877A-0832AC3AEC8A.jpeg
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#60 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 27 2020 - 10:03 AM

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Picture album I’ll post pics on in every update. Unless said so. https://www.formicul...5-fc7e939d6758/
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