Took a video of one of my M. mexicanus colonies the other night
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Posted September 27 2015 - 11:29 AM
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How many workers are in this colony?
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Posted September 27 2015 - 12:11 PM
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I think it has 12-14 workers. Not sure if those cocoons have opened up yet
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I heard that if the workers have nothing to hang upside down too than they use the queen as a replete. Noticing that your tube only has a bit of san at the bottom how do you plan to get the repletes?
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The M. mexicanus don't seem to have any trouble with walking on the glass but that has been on my mind as well. I don't have a solution yet.
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You'd have to freeze the wood first.
But, would putting a small piece of wood work for your Myrmecocystus colony? The idea came up because my Drywood termites have tons of wood in their tubing and they've been there for over a month. No mold or anything. Maybe its the wood I used (it was sitting out for ages in the garage and was incredibly dry, plus I froze it for over a day to kill anything, like mites). I just made sure the wood didn't touch the wet cotton inside the tubing, so there is about half an inch gap from the wood to the cotton. Some of the wood is even a bit wet, and no mold at all.
Just a suggestion. 
But, your results may vary. 
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Life has had me pretty busy lately, if its not one thing its everything else! Thankfully the ants seem to be doing just fine, they didn't even notice I was neglecting them.
The Novomessor cockerelli colony of mine is doing great:
The center section of that formicarium has 2 microscope slides stuck to the lid with silicone - it works amazingly for taking photos.
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These free range Liometopum occidentale are doing the best of any of my colonies:
That pile of brood 
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These free range Liometopum occidentale are doing the best of any of my colonies:
What are they eating?
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What are they eating?
Anything and everything. Sometimes I feed them powdered egg yolk or nectar mix. Mostly they scavenge dead bugs and eat fungus gnats.
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Free range indoor? Maybe they can help with tidying up in the kitchen.
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You should post a video of your Liometopetum. They look incredible.
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Blurry Dorymyrmex:
Myrmecocystus:
M. navajo:
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Free range Liometopum occidentale colony:
I might try taking some more video of these guys in a day or two.
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Here is some video of the free range colony:
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Liometopum occidentale feeding frenzy over some nectar mix
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For some reason this lost some sharpness when being cropped...but still a cool photo! Pogonomyrmex californicus
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Posted December 1 2015 - 6:51 AM
Your Liometopum occidentale colony looks like it's doing really well. The Crematogaster colony I free-ranged for a while is doing really well too. It would be cool if this was tried more often, so we could see if ants really do much better living this way.
BTW, if you let HTML shrink pictures (which this forum does if they are over 800px wide), it looks like crap. The best thing to do is resize them to 800px using a photo editor before embedding them.
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Myrmecocystus mexicanus have repletes now
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