15 replies to this topic

[Anhzor]

 

these guys are gone... but they live on in memories.

[Alza]

with my subnitidus queens i never got any workers, in fact i think it has something to do with the test tubes, they all died like the first month and i had 39

[Alza]

they werent the glass ones, they are some cheap brand 

[Anhzor]

not sure why yours all die... I need more details.  I seen subnititus queen forage in the wild, so maybe you need to feed them.

[Alza]

i did, i gave them honey but they wouldn't take any protein. then they all died except for one that i have which hasnt layed any eggs since june .-.

[Anhzor]

did you make sure they were mated?

[Alza]

they were building founding chambers when i was catching them, so i think they were

[Anhzor]

there's a chance it could be the plastic, but who knows?

Edited by Anhzor, August 30 2014 - 12:29 AM.

[Alza]

plastic of the test tube ? gosh i need to buy the glass ones...my first year of actually dealing with ant queens, before i just watched them forage 

[Anhzor]

Glass test tube are really cheap on amazon, go spend $30 to get 100.

[Alza]

i spent like 21$ for 100 of these sucky plastic ones. but I'm saving up for the acromyrmex queens and fungal pellets so i can't

[Gregory2455]

Glass test tube are really cheap on amazon, go spend $30 to get 100.

Link? I have looked for something like that for a while.

[dspdrew]

These are the test tubes I buy. 250 for $35. A lot of the ones you find on eBay and Amazon come from this company.

 

http://www.lcmlab.co...p/206-0006w.htm

 

These are thin and fragile, but the upside to that is you get better pictures through them because there's less distortion.

[Gregory2455]

i did, i gave them honey but they wouldn't take any protein. then they all died except for one that i have which hasnt layed any eggs since june .-.

 

I found, if you lock a flightless fruitfly into the test tube with a P.subnitidus queen and cover it, come back in a half hour and the fruitfly is gone (Ant Magic Trick!). This is how I got mine to eat, and FINALLY start to lay eggs again after about two months. They go into kind of a starvation mode if they are not given protein, and therefore will stop laying eggs.

[Alza]

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[Gregory2455]

Yes... I know, shocking ant magic trick. Fruitflies are great for any queen or small colony.