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Any accessories an ant keeper should have?

Started By cooIboyJ , Mar 4 2024 5:11 PM
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#1 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:11 PM

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Are there any accessories that an ant keeper should have?


“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
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#2 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:14 PM

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LOTS of cotton, extra test tubes, out worlds, mealworms, dubias, nests, and heating cable/incubater. This is a short list.


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#3 Offline futurebird - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:15 PM

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I started a thread on this not too long ago, there are some popular suggestions:

 

https://www.formicul...t-live-without/


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#4 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:16 PM

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I remember reading this a few weeks back very informative. Another great idea @futurebird!


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#5 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:23 PM

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LOTS of cotton, extra test tubes, out worlds, mealworms, dubias, nests, and heating cable/incubater. This is a short list.

I have the first two and pretty soon I will get the third, sixth and last.

 

Do you know where I can get mealworms for cheap?


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#6 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:25 PM

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I get mine from petco get floun from tarheel ants
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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#7 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:27 PM

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I think instead of fluon I will use baby powder mixed with rubbing alcohol. and I will be sure to check out Petco!


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Currently keeping:
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Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#8 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:28 PM

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The baby powder has to have talc powder in it
Or just get talc powder and mix with rubbing alcohol
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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#9 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:29 PM

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Ok I will make sure that the baby powder has talc powder in it

 

 

Do you think I can get baby powder with talc powder in it from target?


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Currently keeping:
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Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#10 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 4 2024 - 5:30 PM

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or just talc powder?


“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#11 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 7:39 PM

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Talc powder and rubbing alcohol.


Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, March 4 2024 - 8:55 PM.

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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#12 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 4 2024 - 7:42 PM

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Not sure i got mine online
But they should have it as target has everything.
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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#13 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 5 2024 - 10:35 AM

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You should also get a thermometer.


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#14 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 5 2024 - 10:38 AM

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Where you able to catch any queens yesterday?


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#15 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 5 2024 - 10:39 AM

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no


where exactly did you get the talc powder


i can't find any


“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#16 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 5 2024 - 11:29 AM

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I got mine from Amazon.


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#17 Offline Full_Frontal_Yeti - Posted March 5 2024 - 1:30 PM

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fluon is great for keeping no lid outworlds. Also it's great if you are lazy like me, works as is out of the bottle, no alchemy skills or work needed.

 

and a pooter. You want a pooter, you will not be collecting lots of ants, quickly, with your fetaher tweezers. If you need to move a lot of ants, you need a pooter.

 

It is the easy way to clean an outworld. Seal it off, pooter up the ants in it, clean it without hassle form ants. Put ants from pooter back when done.

 

pooter

 

and yeah a nice pooter is nice and all. but if you got a perscription medicne bottle, some extra ant tubing, and any kind of filter(cotton or whatever). then just cobble one togther, don't spend money on it. A pooter is such a basic thing it seems wrong to not just make one out of whatever reuse/upcycle materials you got around.


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#18 Offline Artisan_Ants - Posted March 5 2024 - 4:30 PM

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Yeah, like what Full_Frontal_Yeti said, a pooter or insect aspirator is very useful for collecting small queens and specimens (I’ve been looking to get a good one, but they’re very pricy, even on Amazon. Maybe I have to check again…)

Keeping:

3x - S. molesta (colonies and single queen)                1x - C. nearcticus (founding but no eggs)   (y) New!

1x - C. chromaiodes (colony)                                       1x - C. subbarbatus (founding)  

1x - F. subsericea (founding)                                        1x - T. sessile (mega colony)

3x - P. imparis (colonies)  

2x - L. neoniger (founding)

 

Check out my C. nearcticus journal here: https://www.formicul...cticus-journal/

Check out my C. chromaiodes journal here: https://www.formicul...aiodes-journal/

#19 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 5 2024 - 4:53 PM

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Yea the best bet is to just build one.


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#20 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted March 5 2024 - 5:36 PM

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ok


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“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
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Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

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