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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2010 17:37:18 GMT 1
Hi, I'm planning on making some jelly for my ants but cannot use honey (mainly because we don't buy it in my house and no one will eat it.) So I was wondering what else could I use to replace it?
cheers,
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2010 22:26:58 GMT 1
Hello stevant, I replace honey with syrup. Be sure to buy the kind with the most sugar per serving size. Flavus
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2010 18:16:49 GMT 1
Ok thanks flavus, I couldn't get hold of syrup. So I plan to use some teaspoons of sugar hopefully that'll work? Also is the multivitamin tablet absolutely nescarssery?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2010 23:40:51 GMT 1
That should work, also the multivitamin is not absolutely necessary. I have never used and the ants don't care. They do not get multivitamins in the wild do they? That is why I do not give them to my colonies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2010 15:59:50 GMT 1
Yes they do get multi vitamins in the wild. Just the same as humans do from eating the right things. The tablets are simply a replacement if you don't eat your greens all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2010 1:37:40 GMT 1
Yes but do they get Vitamin A and all the other vitamins that mammals need to survive? I still think that ants do not need multi-vitamins, mammals need those vitamins not insects. A diet of insects and honey or sugar water is perfectly fine for a colony of ants. I have been using this method and my colonies have for the most part been very healthy. Flavus
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