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Orion’s Solonopsis Journal Continued

Started By Orion8 , Oct 7 2021 5:37 PM

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#1 Offline Orion8 - Posted October 7 2021 - 5:37 PM

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So, I have gotten out of the habit of posting. I am very sorry about that, but I came back to ask an important question. It is not an exaggeration to say the lives of my ants depend on it. So, I am going on a weeklong trip soon, and I cannot get insects to feed them, so I have to work with what I have. And what I have is some Zoo Med Supercondenced Betta Food. Can they eat it? Is there any other household things that they can eat? I will also start actually updating again, this is not just one question.

Edited by Orion8, October 7 2021 - 5:38 PM.

#2 Offline NancyZamora4991 - Posted October 7 2021 - 5:41 PM

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they will eat honey, bread, syrup, make sure they have water and they can survive for a week without insects. They also will eat cat food


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#3 Offline PetsNotPests - Posted October 7 2021 - 6:36 PM

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Solenopsis can and will (Or at least they will try to) eat literally anything. 


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Ants are Pets, not Pests. 

 

-Camponotus sansabeanus

-Camponotus US-CA02

-Camponotus vicinus

-Formica podzolica

-Monomorium spp.

-Pogonomyrmex californicus

-Solenopsis spp. 

 

#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 8 2021 - 2:00 AM

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Can you put the colony in a mini-hibernation in a fridge? They will eat boiled egg yolk and meats, cat food, perhaps some crushed nuts or seeds.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline Orion8 - Posted December 1 2021 - 7:00 PM

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I was trying to think what to post, and I realized the ants probably already started hibernating.
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