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Fish Flakes for Ants?

Started By SDinLA , Nov 28 2020 12:14 PM

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#1 Offline SDinLA - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:14 PM

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I've read about people feeding fish flakes to their ants. I was going to pick up some of these. Curious if anyone here has used these and if their ants liked them.

 

 

 

 

 

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#2 Offline ZTYguy - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:19 PM

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They are used for leaf cutters


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#3 Offline SDinLA - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:21 PM

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So Camponotus probably wouldn't eat them?


#4 Offline Lazarus - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:25 PM

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So Camponotus probably wouldn't eat them?

I tried with my Camponotus Novae, and a few Formica Sp. and none of them ate it.


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#5 Offline ZTYguy - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:45 PM

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Yeah only for Acromyrmex and atta


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#6 Offline Manitobant - Posted November 28 2020 - 12:57 PM

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I literally just bought some today and my tetramorium bicarinatum which normally eat anything i throw at them didn't touch flakes.
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#7 Offline SDinLA - Posted November 28 2020 - 1:03 PM

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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll stick to the other foods.


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#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted November 29 2020 - 5:44 PM

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Just throwing this out there, but I had a different thing of fish flakes and my Tetra were actually interested. A bit. (No one else was.) I should try it again with them and Liometopum.

For odd foods, I will say my Veromessor loved Gerber chicken/turkey baby food.... lol


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#9 Offline ZTYguy - Posted November 29 2020 - 7:25 PM

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Hehe.

 

Just throwing this out there, but I had a different thing of fish flakes and my Tetra were actually interested. A bit. (No one else was.) I should try it again with them and Liometopum.

For odd foods, I will say my Veromessor loved Gerber chicken/turkey baby food.... lol

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#10 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted November 30 2020 - 9:19 AM

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want to feed something weird to ants? feed wet dog food to tetramorium.


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#11 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 30 2020 - 9:22 AM

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acromyrmex versicolor like fish pellets and flakes i mean you could kinda guess that but also some crazy ants like pellets. i see more ants like pellets than they do flakes.


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#12 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted March 8 2021 - 8:22 AM

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I've given my ants fish flakes before because I also keep a fish tank, but they never seem to eat them or they do only when I'm not looking.


#13 Offline Canadant - Posted March 8 2021 - 10:05 AM

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want to feed something weird to ants? feed wet dog food to tetramorium.


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#14 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted March 8 2021 - 10:10 AM

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I've had a lot of success feeding Veromessor, Tetramorium,  and Pogonomyrmex fish flakes. They put the flakes on top of the larvae and the larvae go to town.


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#15 Offline gs5248 - Posted March 8 2021 - 10:16 AM

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I find my ants seem to like them. Especially my tetramorium. 


#16 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 8 2021 - 1:12 PM

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I offered my C. Vicinus freeze dried blood worms and they didn't seem to eat them.


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