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[GeoKoen]

To move a starting colony from one testtube to another (if the cotton has mold or semething) how do you guys do it?

I taped the old and new testtube together (left a small space open for air) and placed the new tubes in the dark.

Is that the good way, or do you guys use another way?

[Pleming]

Usually that will work. Sometimes a colony will be stubborn and won't move. That's when you have to use other techniques. This is what I have done and all have worked. 

 

Heat the new test-tube - They will more then likely move the brood to the heat source. 

 

Shined a light on the old test-tube

 

Used an ice pack and put it on the older test-tube - Had a Camponotus Modoc colony with 100+ workers and they did not want to move out of the overcrowded/moldy smaller formarcium so i used an ice pack and put it on the older formicarium and the began to move to the newer much larger one. 

 

Drop them in - Sometimes they will never move and when conditions are threatening there survival you have to.