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I'm going to have a colony of gold ants,what should I feed them?

Started By AkumaArtist , Dec 10 2017 3:06 PM

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#1 Offline AkumaArtist - Posted December 10 2017 - 3:06 PM

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What types of insects are better for them?
Do they eat more sweets? (because I've read they actually eat a bunch more of sweets compared with other ants)
What type of sweets and other foods should i give them?
Do they like honey?


#2 Offline LC3 - Posted December 10 2017 - 3:49 PM

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Gold ants? scientific names are used for a reason and that reason being that common names are unreliable. 


#3 Offline Vendayn - Posted December 10 2017 - 3:59 PM

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You want to feed gold ants iron and maybe some other minerals. Make sure to have a very hot heat lamp and put a lot of pressure inside. Eventually that iron and mix of minerals will make more gold ants, but it can be a long process.


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#4 Offline 123LordOfAnts123 - Posted December 10 2017 - 5:25 PM

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Most ants are easy to feed. A diet to cover the bases includes proteins consisting of insects, and carbohydrates in the form of sugar/honey and water mixtures. You can experiment from there.
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#5 Offline AkumaArtist - Posted December 12 2017 - 8:19 AM

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Gold ants? scientific names are used for a reason and that reason being that common names are unreliable. 

sorry,their cientific name is lasius flavus


#6 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted December 12 2017 - 10:59 AM

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Gold ants? scientific names are used for a reason and that reason being that common names are unreliable. 

sorry,their cientific name is lasius flavus

 

Oh! Haha, in English, "gold ants" is commonly assigned to South Asian/Oceanic ants, like members of Polyrhachis and Camponotus. We call L. flavus the "yellow meadow ant". The binomial Latin names are superior.

Lasius flavus are very straightforward and charming ants to keep. They only require sugary liquids (the less-processed, the better) and small, soft-bodied insects. Mine prefer Drosophila melanogaster.


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#7 Offline AkumaArtist - Posted December 12 2017 - 11:25 AM

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Gold ants? scientific names are used for a reason and that reason being that common names are unreliable. 

sorry,their cientific name is lasius flavus

 

Oh! Haha, in English, "gold ants" is commonly assigned to South Asian/Oceanic ants, like members of Polyrhachis and Camponotus. We call L. flavus the "yellow meadow ant". The binomial Latin names are superior.

Lasius flavus are very straightforward and charming ants to keep. They only require sugary liquids (the less-processed, the better) and small, soft-bodied insects. Mine prefer Drosophila melanogaster.

 

thank you so much

I'm going to have them in a couple days,so it is pretty helpfull :D

 

Here in spain we call them gold/golden ants,I didn't thought the name could change XD


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#8 Offline sgheaton - Posted December 12 2017 - 12:18 PM

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I wanted there to be tiny literal golden ants........


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#9 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted December 12 2017 - 1:41 PM

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 The binomial Latin names are superior.

 

 

 

 Yes. Yes they are.


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