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Why does my c. castaneus colony's test tube always smell like garbage?

Started By MegaMyrmex , Aug 24 2017 2:26 PM

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#1 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted August 24 2017 - 2:26 PM

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Why does my Camponotus castaneus colony's test tube always smell like garbage? This has happened twice. Is this good or bad? Please help me!

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

#2 Offline AntsMaryland - Posted August 24 2017 - 3:01 PM

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well... as long as it is not really potent and just gagging smell you should be fine. It means that there are bacteria.

Aphaenogaster cf. rudis

Tetramorium immigrans

Tapinoma sessile

Formica subsericea

Pheidole sp.

Camponotus nearcticus

#3 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted August 24 2017 - 3:28 PM

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Ah okay...is this bacteria bad?

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

#4 Offline AntsMaryland - Posted August 24 2017 - 3:51 PM

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it means things are decaying. It shouldn't be harmful for your ants.

It's just as bad as the bacteria on you're skin. You don't have to worry.

I know a little about organic chemistry. What is proably the smell that you're smelling is Thiol which is produced by certain kinds of bacteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiol

I took Organic Chemistry on Khan Academy so i relatively know about this stuff

Aphaenogaster cf. rudis

Tetramorium immigrans

Tapinoma sessile

Formica subsericea

Pheidole sp.

Camponotus nearcticus

#5 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted August 24 2017 - 6:12 PM

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Oh ok then Thank you😁

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.