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[Full_Frontal_Yeti]

Glad to report the colony is ticking over same as always.

The slight down time in brood that needed to be fed, resulted in a slow to grow trash pile with little to no seed husks to discard. And while nothing seemingly bad is going on, there’s so many ants now, that a new trash piled of just dead ants formed anyway.  And got noticable.

It is starting to be buried under seed husks now, but it was kind a gross for a week of watching the dead ants just pile up.
But now there’s brood everywhere, with all the little baskets laid out on all the water tower space there is. Still just larvae though, no pupae yet being kept in the hot spots. I see one or two that’ll be official pupae in the next day or two.

 

Here’s the long foil bit they got form the small to med outworld. It’s taken them a full week or so to get lined up with the port to go to the trash pile in the large outworld. This will likely be there later today.

 

And here’s a “Smooth fish” feeding going on.

 

They really swarm the stuff, and it’ll all be ate in just a couple to few days, leaving no refuse behind to rot.

 

I love the no mess foods, but they still get some cricket or waxworms from time to time too. I figure some amount of natural variety is generally best for them so I don’t go all in on one food source.

 

And here's some ant keeper feed i recommend:

 

 

[ANTdrew]

Now that’s some nice nectar!

[NotAxo]

Seems like the you've got a special ‘ant-idote’ for a long day