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[LowQualityAnts]

Has anyone kept two colonies sucsessfully in the same nest or two nests connected to same outworld? I know that thief ants hide in other colonies walls and strumigyens lives in aphenogaster nests in the wild, but has anyone replicated this in captivity?

[United-Ants]

i have tried  to do this and they all ways kill each other  the best way to do this is make a vivarium 

[FinWins]

I think I saw this once on YouTube, but I’ve forgotten the channel name. The guy was keeping several species of ants and a termite colony in a four foot long tank.

[LowQualityAnts]

Nordic ants?
I think a youtuber named D colony had a pheidole queen get in his trapjaw colonies outworld and it started a colony that ate the trapjaw colonies leftovers.

Also, how do you spell olygeny

Edited by LowQualityAnts, December 13 2022 - 9:18 AM.

[AntsCali098]

Nordic ants?
I think a youtuber named D colony had a pheidole queen get in his trapjaw colonies outworld and it started a colony that ate the trapjaw colonies leftovers.

Also, how do you spell olygeny

Yes, nordic ants at least used to have a huge multi species tank. I don't think he does youtube anymore, sadly

[Manitobant]

If you want to keep multiple colonies together, it has to be a vivarium and not a nest. You must also make sure that the species involved are either nonaggressive or have small colonies, preferably both. Genera like aphaenogaster, temnothorax, brachymyrmex, cyphomyrmex and anything in the subfamily ponerinae are good choices.

[United-Ants]

 

Nordic ants?
I think a youtuber named D colony had a pheidole queen get in his trapjaw colonies outworld and it started a colony that ate the trapjaw colonies leftovers.

Also, how do you spell olygeny

Yes, nordic ants at least used to have a huge multi species tank. I don't think he does youtube anymore, sadly

 

he still dose new vid came out 2 months ago 

[LowQualityAnts]

But how do you spell it?

[ANTS_KL]

Oligogyny. Which is a term referring to multiple queen ants in the same colony separated throughout the nest. I'm pretty sure the ants do this to avoid the queens fighting. What you are referring to is usually called a commensal association, where 2 colonies nest together but do not harm each other in any way. This can't be said the same for thief ants though, since they feed on the host colonies brood. 

[LowQualityAnts]

Oligogyny. Which is a term referring to multiple queen ants in the same colony separated throughout the nest. I'm pretty sure the ants do this to avoid the queens fighting. What you are referring to is usually called a commensal association, where 2 colonies nest together but do not harm each other in any way. This can't be said the same for thief ants though, since they feed on the host colonies brood.

Oh, thanks. I could have sworn that's what it said in antwiki.