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Please help! My Weaver ant queen is in danger!

Started By SYUTEO , Jun 12 2021 7:28 PM

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#21 Offline SYUTEO - Posted June 26 2021 - 8:01 PM

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If in a tank set up, just wet tissue and a toilet roll is good enough? Do you have any photo of a good set up that you can share with me please?

Yes, just put some wet tissues in a plastic jar or anything big enough for the queen to nest in should be alright. Though some people had luck with test tubes.


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#22 Offline ashley1505 - Posted June 26 2021 - 9:44 PM

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Ok I'll try that when I get home. Currently, I've placed her in a small plastic fish tank with the lid left open, we put a talcum barrier at the top of the tank, a wet tissue, some leaves and a test tube stuffed with cotton bud and sugar solution.

#23 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 26 2021 - 9:59 PM

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Sorry if I'm late. I'm getting a pic now

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#24 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 26 2021 - 10:02 PM

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This is the setup. Just remember to add air holes in the lid. The tissue is wet. I founded my colony like this and it's proven to be successful countless times. I have a pic on what it should look like with the queen inside. I'll send it next post cuz I haven't uploaded it to my gallery.


Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#25 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 26 2021 - 10:07 PM

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Ok here it is.

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#26 Offline ashley1505 - Posted June 27 2021 - 6:48 PM

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Super cool! Thanks so much! I've done something similar and added a test tube with sugar solution in the container, hopefully she survives this one.. at least this time she is active before we place her in the founding set up 😁
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#27 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 27 2021 - 10:06 PM

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Super cool! Thanks so much! I've done something similar and added a test tube with sugar solution in the container, hopefully she survives this one.. at least this time she is active before we place her in the founding set up

Lets hope she makes it! Should be quite smooth from now till the workers emerge. Then you gotta get plants.

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.
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