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Experience with these test tubes?

Started By NPLT , Apr 28 2021 12:21 PM

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#21 Offline TacticalHandleGaming - Posted April 30 2021 - 6:49 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

 

I'm interested in trying these, how often do you have to add water? Once a week? 


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L. neoniger, P. occidentalis, C. modoc, C. novaeboracensis, C. vicinus, T. immigrans, A. occidentalis, S. molesta, P. imparis, M. kennedyi, M semirufus, F. pacifica, P. californica, M. ergatogyna.

 

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T. rugatulus, B. depilis.

 

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#22 Offline NPLT - Posted April 30 2021 - 6:59 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

Wait, so those are these bamboo tubes I heard about! I was wondering the whole time why would people keep ants in bamboo ( as in, the plant ).


Um, uh, Ants!

 

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#23 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 30 2021 - 7:12 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

 
I'm interested in trying these, how often do you have to add water? Once a week?
yes, once a week

Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

Wait, so those are these bamboo tubes I heard about! I was wondering the whole time why would people keep ants in bamboo ( as in, the plant ).
yeah these are the bamboo tubes everyone talks about.
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#24 Offline NPLT - Posted April 30 2021 - 9:53 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

Wait, so those are these bamboo tubes I heard about! I was wondering the whole time why would people keep ants in bamboo ( as in, the plant ).
yeah these are the bamboo tubes everyone talks about.

 

I feel stupid now. Can I ask, why are they called bamboo tubes?


Um, uh, Ants!

 

link to journal: https://www.formicul...lt-ant-journal/

#25 Offline ReignofRage - Posted April 30 2021 - 10:29 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

Wait, so those are these bamboo tubes I heard about! I was wondering the whole time why would people keep ants in bamboo ( as in, the plant ).
yeah these are the bamboo tubes everyone talks about.

 

I feel stupid now. Can I ask, why are they called bamboo tubes?

 

Mimics the chambers that are in bamboo, if you have seen the inside of bamboo its basically a tube with a "wall" where each node is.


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#26 Offline NPLT - Posted April 30 2021 - 10:52 AM

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Bamboo tubes are great! You just have to pour warm(so the medium would absorb it quicker) water through the small tube that has a black cap on at the end of the test tube using a syringe or pipette, it absorbs water fairly slowly(in my experience) so it might take you some time.

Wait, so those are these bamboo tubes I heard about! I was wondering the whole time why would people keep ants in bamboo ( as in, the plant ).
yeah these are the bamboo tubes everyone talks about.

 

I feel stupid now. Can I ask, why are they called bamboo tubes?

 

Mimics the chambers that are in bamboo, if you have seen the inside of bamboo its basically a tube with a "wall" where each node is.

 

Huh? So, there are chambers in bamboo, that's good to know.


Um, uh, Ants!

 

link to journal: https://www.formicul...lt-ant-journal/

#27 Offline ReignofRage - Posted April 30 2021 - 11:29 AM

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Huh? So, there are chambers in bamboo, that's good to know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Search "inside of bamboo"


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