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[Aquaexploder]

So the queen ate all her brood, and one of the two nanitics died because he got stuck in the cotton. I have a feeling they won't make it.

[T.C.]

I'd try brood boosting. But for future camponotous queens you catch, I recommend a wooden setup. Mine produce faster and do much better than the ones in test tube setups.

[Senbonzakura]

What do wooden setups look like, and how would you go about getting one?

[fANTastic]

Make sure you don't make it too stressed out. For example: bright lights, disturbing test tube etc. T.C. is also right about keeping them in wooden setups, some species of camponotus don't do well in test tubes. Good Luck.

[Nathant2131]

My Camponotus queens did fine in glass test tubes albeit they are super clumsy from slipping on the glass.

 

I kept my Camponotus spp. queens competely uncovered from the start, and the lights in my room would go off and on all day from me going in and out. They have gone on to have nanitics ever since.

 

What species are you having trouble with?

[Aquaexploder]

 
What species are you having trouble with?

Camponotus nearcticus.

[Aquaexploder]

I have more unfortunate bad news, the other nanitic passed away. I just gave her some cotton soaked in sugar water, but she seems to be ignoring it. Right now she is digging at the cotton trying to escape. 

[Tyler_Fishman]

Camponotus is a very tough and picky species at the start,queens are almost guarenteed to not like or accept their artificial cluastral cell, I wouod not bother a queen after an incident like your for a good month

[Aquaexploder]

Camponotus is a very tough and picky species at the start,queens are almost guarenteed to not like or accept their artificial cluastral cell, I wouod not bother a queen after an incident like your for a good month

I need to bother her to some degree because she needs to be fed. Since she has already had nanitics her claustral stage has ended.

[cpman]

Camponotus is a very tough and picky species at the start,queens are almost guarenteed to not like or accept their artificial cluastral cell, I wouod not bother a queen after an incident like your for a good month

I haven't had that experience with Camponotus at all. Every queen I've kept of this genus successfully produced nanitics in a normal test tube setup. They also successfully produced workers subsequently.

If this queen hadn't had workers already, I'd suggest leaving her undisturbed. But she will need food.

Edited by cpman, August 5 2017 - 7:10 PM.

[Nathant2131]

 

Camponotus is a very tough and picky species at the start,queens are almost guarenteed to not like or accept their artificial cluastral cell, I wouod not bother a queen after an incident like your for a good month

I haven't had that experience with Camponotus at all. Every queen I've kept of this genus successfully produced nanitics in a normal test tube setup.

 

Same here. If that were true we probably wouldn't be using test tube setups for them so much then...

[Aquaexploder]

Yes! She has finally laid another egg! Lets hope she doesn't eat this one.

[Ameise]

I will say that my Camponotus queens adjusted better to small wooden founding formicaria than they did to glass test tubes.