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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2011 13:37:16 GMT 1
Hopefully my queen and a few workers will be arriving tomorrow and I want to make sure I understand what is needed of me. They will be living in a tupperware box with some 'bird grit' (which I thought was stone but is apparently some sort of bird food...) on the bottom. Then I will just put the test tube in (do I leave it blocked or unblock it and let the queen seal herself in?). I hear a lump of cotton wool soaked in sugar water (is there a ratio I should be going for?) will do them for food and drink for a little while, and as they start to venture out I will give them flys and such. I also intend to put some random things in, sticks and the like, just because I have visions of the ants playing on them The box will be put on a deep shelf out of the sun in a warm room, with books in front (I just want to stress this is NOT to hide them from my wife as she is 100% behind the idea of having ants in the house... #ahem#). Anything else I need to do? Ooh, btw, I keep snakes and often have 'spare' dead mice. I don't intend to put a whole mouse in with the ants, but would they enjoy a small piece cut off one (and is there a particular part that is a delicacy to ants)? ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2011 17:19:05 GMT 1
If you keep the tube covered you can veiw the Tupperware box (now reffered to as the foraging box or outworld) whenever you want. I think it should be fine, you may want to not bother with the mice.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 8:06:12 GMT 1
I'll leave the mice be then Another snake related 'bonus', I have a fair bit of a substance called Vermiculite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiculite) which I use to give the snakes somewhere to lay eggs. I can't see how it would be, but that won't be harmful to the ants will it? They don't eat the ground do they? #Crosses fingers that queen comes today#
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 9:23:17 GMT 1
I don't think they will unless it taste very sweet.
You breed snakes? How cool
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 13:37:48 GMT 1
And now I breed ants! Next... horses!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 16:05:39 GMT 1
Horses to feed to giant snakes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2011 10:13:14 GMT 1
I have a ball of cotton wool soaked in sugar near the tube, is it too early to add a fly?
Also, the ants have started piling things in the tube but have a ways to go to block it, should I be helping them seal it?
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Post by Myrm on Jun 3, 2011 11:08:47 GMT 1
Hi Spikie.
You can put a fly in now if you wish.
No. Leave the ants to block it at their own speed.
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