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cocdeshijie's Myrmecocystus mexicanus Journal 【2020】

Started By cocdeshijie , Sep 18 2020 11:26 AM
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#101 Offline AleeGuy - Posted January 1 2021 - 3:52 PM

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#102 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted January 5 2021 - 8:35 PM

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Day 142-January 5, 2021

They got more repletes ;) 

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Also have another cool nest, can't wait to use it on a large colony later this year :D 

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Edited by cocdeshijie, May 27 2022 - 5:52 PM.

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#103 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted March 20 2021 - 8:39 PM

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Some updates :)

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Moving one of the colony from cup nest to a real nest

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Edited by cocdeshijie, May 27 2022 - 5:54 PM.

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#104 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 21 2021 - 4:47 AM

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Wow .. those are gorgeous and reallllly cool to see.
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#105 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 21 2021 - 6:38 AM

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Incredibly cool looking formicariums and colonies. I’m a little jelly.
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#106 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 21 2021 - 10:37 AM

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Day 142-January 5, 2021

 

Also have another cool nest, can't wait to use it on a large colony later this year :D 

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that formicarium is really cool.  where did you get it?  is that one you made yourself?


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#107 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted March 21 2021 - 11:08 AM

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Day 142-January 5, 2021

 

Also have another cool nest, can't wait to use it on a large colony later this year :D 

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that formicarium is really cool.  where did you get it?  is that one you made yourself?

 

Its made by 灯小半


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#108 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted July 12 2021 - 2:56 PM

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They have exploded, the larger colony should get 2000 worker by end of this year

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#109 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted July 28 2021 - 9:45 AM

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12 hours ago, this feeder was full.  :whistle:

 

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#110 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted July 30 2021 - 1:43 PM

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Here is a video of them hunting termite alates.

 

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#111 Offline antsandmore - Posted July 30 2021 - 4:45 PM

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POTS

 

its so cool to see the repletes. even if I've seen it before they always look so cool


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Ants I am keeping:

 none for now, planning on being more active this year

#112 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted August 12 2021 - 9:17 PM

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They might outgrow this nest in 3 months

 

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Here is another 2020 colony, didn't feed them as much so they are smaller:

 

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#113 Offline ZTYguy - Posted August 13 2021 - 6:40 AM

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Nice, they are getting so big.


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#114 Offline futurebird - Posted August 13 2021 - 7:03 AM

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Could you share a link?
it is from Taobao, it doesn't have shipping to the US though

 

Then explain how he has it.

 

I had someone ship for me.

 

 

is it this one?

 

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#115 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted December 11 2021 - 6:12 PM

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This colony has outgrow 12 30x200mm tubes, I'll move them to a new nest in spring.

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#116 Offline PaigeX - Posted December 12 2021 - 2:42 AM

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that's really amazing! So cool to see!


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#117 Offline UtahAnts - Posted December 12 2021 - 11:35 AM

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Beautiful ants in a very cool nest. Just curious, how do you plan on moving the repletes out of the test tubes?


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#118 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted December 12 2021 - 6:58 PM

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Beautiful ants in a very cool nest. Just curious, how do you plan on moving the repletes out of the test tubes?

 

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#119 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 12 2021 - 8:01 PM

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Damn now I want these just to see those repletes in person haha looks so crazy in the pictures. Isn't this species supposed to be a bit harder to keep?


#120 Offline cocdeshijie - Posted December 12 2021 - 8:14 PM

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Damn now I want these just to see those repletes in person haha looks so crazy in the pictures. Isn't this species supposed to be a bit harder to keep?

 

They are the easiest of Myrmecocystus for me.


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