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I was lucky enough to get 12 Acromyrmex versicolor queens from someone who found them after an apparent flight last week. It's a strange time for them to fly, but I'll take it. I didn't have any fungus but one of my friends already had an Acromyrmex colony and they gave me some 
. I'm pretty stoked for this colony right now. I hope I don't do anything too stupid until my Acromyrmex fever dies down. For now, I'm keeping all of the queens together because I don't have much fungus, and I want to make sure they grow for a bit first. I'm not certain that these queens are fertile, as given the strange flight time, it might've been an ejection flight that produced uninseminated queens. I still hope they can grow their fungus out though. I've decided to name the colony Acgrow just so I can reference it more easily in the journal 
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These were the queens when I just got them in the mail. Most of them were fine, although there was one that was looking sickly. I moved them into the setup I created for them just a bit after I received them. The queens were completely fine with each other and didn't attack at all.
This is the setup I'm currently using for them. It's quite big. and there's plenty of room. I'm slightly worried it's a little too much room. The humidity inside is at 100% and the temperature I'm keeping them at is usually at 27 degrees Celsius during the day.
. They calmed down after a while though. The fungus still has substrate from before I obtained the colony so it probably doesn't need that much feeding for a bit. I'm not sure exactly how fast they grow though, so I'll have to figure out my feeding schedule as we go. They also aren't super active in touching the fungus, but I don't know if that's just because there's not much to do or if they just don't feel like it. In this video you can also see the sickly queen, which basically stopped moving at this point.
