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[ZTYguy]

I got 2 founding queens in a single test tube on 9/16/2021 and I gave them the brood and about 15 workers of a dead colony. After the adoption went smoothly I put them in a mini hearth from THA because I wanted something smaller but will hopefully be moving them into a Cocdeshijie nest because his nests are amazing. Anyways the queens started producing right away and they got up to 30 workers and 3 repletes before winter. As of now they are at about 35ish workers and 4 full repletes and 4 infilled repletes. The two queens are still doing great and the brood pile is huge.

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Edited by ZTYguy, April 9 2022 - 10:02 PM.

[ColAnt735]

I got 2 founding queens in a single test tube on 9/16/2021 and I gave them the brood and about 15 workers of a dead colony. After the adoption went smoothly I put them in a mini hearth from THA because I wanted something smaller but will hopefully be moving them into a Cocdeshijie nest because his nests are amazing. Anyways the queens started producing right away and they got up to 30 workers and 3 repletes before winter. As of now they are at about 35ish workers and 4 full repletes and 4 infilled repletes. The two queens are still doing great and the brood pile is huge.

Beautiful ants!

Edited by ColAnt735, February 27 2022 - 6:34 AM.

[antsriondel]

 

I got 2 founding queens in a single test tube on 9/16/2021 and I gave them the brood and about 15 workers of a dead colony. After the adoption went smoothly I put them in a mini hearth from THA because I wanted something smaller but will hopefully be moving them into a Cocdeshijie nest because his nests are amazing. Anyways the queens started producing right away and they got up to 30 workers and 3 repletes before winter. As of now they are at about 35ish workers and 4 full repletes and 4 infilled repletes. The two queens are still doing great and the brood pile is huge.

Beautiful ants!

 

yeah, agreed!!!  

[ZTYguy]

Update 4/9/2022

 

After the last update  they had a boom in brood production and population and are probably at about 40-50 workers and all repletes are filled and are being slowly converted to red from blue due to me wanting red ants now. Right now most of the repletes are black which doesn’t look half bad but that just means we are closer to red.