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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 20:00:09 GMT 1
YES that is wat i heard..... i belive it is due to the amount of food they get when larvea
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Post by Myrm on Oct 11, 2011 20:06:14 GMT 1
YES that is wat i heard..... i belive it is due to the amount of food they get when larvea You are correct, Jon Bin Lid.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 20:24:16 GMT 1
And where did i learn that....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 22:15:12 GMT 1
Thanks for the advice.
How long will it be before I should start to see bigger workers? I will do some reading tomorrow after work.
All the best
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 22:20:39 GMT 1
I belive they grow depending on food.but check woth myrm as i may/am wrong
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 12:20:08 GMT 1
Yes food is definitely a determining factor in how large an ant will grow. I also have a guess that depending on how safe the colony feels that may affect growth size. (Completely a hunch though.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 14:50:46 GMT 1
So I just check on them and I have 8 or 9 workers now. Not sure if its 8 or 9 as they keep moving lol.
I put a little dollop of honey in there and its not there anymore so I can only assume they have eaten it. One of the workers is almost twice the size of the others!
When should I put them into a bigger farm? should I wait until I have x amount of workers?
There is also about 30 eggs that look very close to being ready :-)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 14:58:26 GMT 1
Are you currently keeping them in a test tube?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 15:12:15 GMT 1
Are you currently keeping them in a test tube? Yes I am. They are living in a test tube but in a medium sized tupper wear box. I have a coke bottle lid with a sugar water saturated cotton wool ball in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 16:18:19 GMT 1
I belive it is up too something like 20 workers (but these ants are small) but I may be wrong as I am new to this as well
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2011 13:42:29 GMT 1
yea these are small ants., I bit smaller then L.Niger. I will be sorting the proper set up this week at some point :-)
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