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She made it!

Started By BlueLance213 , Oct 8 2020 3:42 PM

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#1 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted October 8 2020 - 3:42 PM

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So I got given a Camponotus Barbaricus Queen way back in May for my birthday and sadly upon arrival only her and one worker made it.

 

About a month later she had eater any eggs she had and sadly the worker perished (I am not sure why sadly)

 

Since then I have been reading up more and more on here and AC forum and gotten help and advice on both sites, after taking on the advice and 3 months further down the line I am happy to announce when I went to bed I checked and seen she had 2 workers eclosed, they are small, but beautiful. I am proud of this queen! Tomorrow I will need to check on them and feed them something as I was honestly expecting it to be another few weeks until they eclosed since they only cocooned not even 3 weeks ago, and one of them didn't even bother to cocoon themselves, just appeared at some point.

 

So she made it!!!


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#2 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted October 8 2020 - 3:53 PM

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So I got given a Camponotus Barbaricus Queen way back in May for my birthday and sadly upon arrival only her and one worker made it.

 

About a month later she had eater any eggs she had and sadly the worker perished (I am not sure why sadly)

 

Since then I have been reading up more and more on here and AC forum and gotten help and advice on both sites, after taking on the advice and 3 months further down the line I am happy to announce when I went to bed I checked and seen she had 2 workers eclosed, they are small, but beautiful. I am proud of this queen! Tomorrow I will need to check on them and feed them something as I was honestly expecting it to be another few weeks until they eclosed since they only cocooned not even 3 weeks ago, and one of them didn't even bother to cocoon themselves, just appeared at some point.

 

So she made it!!!

sounds like a hardy queen! Good luck!


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#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 8 2020 - 4:11 PM

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#4 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 8 2020 - 6:44 PM

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Congrats! What do you think were some key steps you did to help her?


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#5 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted October 9 2020 - 8:24 PM

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Congrats! What do you think were some key steps you did to help her?

 

Taking the advice was a huge step :P

 

  • I feel putting her in a heated box that was roughly 28C versus my house 21-22C Helped in terms of growth for the brood.
  • Feeding her and leaving her for a month as well definitely helped because she was able to settle completely undisturbed
  • NOT keeping her in a drawer, I noticed that drawers seem bad because no matter how you move it there will always be vibrations which freaked her out, so a lift lid box helped with that.
  • Then being patient and feeding her on a 2 week basis once she had larva. making sure to use dim light so she wouldn't react much.

Those were the main 4 things, but she became very aggressive and would actively attack and chop up everything given and after she had larva she became much more confident, so when it came to putting food in her tube she wouldn't run around like a crazy person. 

 

Although that completely reverted after she got her first 2 workers, I went to give them food this morning and she lost her mind, but her workers weren't bothered.

 

Ants are weird sometimes haha I will get a picture of them soon!


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