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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2012 10:02:26 GMT 1
Oh okay haha
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2012 17:48:56 GMT 1
I think talcum works the best!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2012 20:23:33 GMT 1
no what myrm needs is an electric fencing for ants!
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Post by Myrm on Aug 16, 2012 16:53:15 GMT 1
16 August 2012, Thursdayno what myrm needs is an electric fencing for ants! Well, my awesome Dermy bud, you are closer to the truth than you think >.< I managed to use an electrical gadget to prevent more escapees. I always have an external USB Hard drive attached to my labtop so that regular back ups can be made in case anything goes wrong (and it's saved me a lot of aggravation in the past). I found out that the lid in one corner of foraging tank number 1 did not fit quite right and there was enough of a gap for the umbies to crawl out of. I put my external hard drive on top of the tank over that corner and that seems to have closed the gap. No more naughty umbies on my desk. Today I put two rocks in one of their foraging tanks that I found outside. They found them to be vAry interesting and they were swarming over them both for over an hour (an "R" if you're ttttt >.< ) investigating it and having a sniff of it. I fed them some cricket, mealworm, wax worm, raisin and traffic light cream cake today, all of which they tucked into.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 22:02:59 GMT 1
I have never fed raisins to ants before... Did they like?
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Post by Myrm on Aug 17, 2012 6:30:14 GMT 1
I have never fed raisins to ants before... Did they like? Yes, they liked them vary much.
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Post by Myrm on Aug 17, 2012 13:24:22 GMT 1
17 August 2012, FridayKK, Here are two pictures of one of the brood chambers in the Umbie nest, and the queen herself. Taken using my S3 so not great quality.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2012 13:25:17 GMT 1
OO nice photos Myrm looks like the colony is healthy aswell. Could you take a photo of the whole formicarium?
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Post by Myrm on Aug 17, 2012 13:38:19 GMT 1
OO nice photos Myrm looks like the colony is healthy aswell. Could you take a photo of the whole formicarium? Not at the moment, AntBoy Bin Lid, sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2012 13:57:09 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2012 16:58:51 GMT 1
That's a nice looking queen, they look like paler L.flavus. I take it that she's about three years old?
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Post by Myrm on Aug 18, 2012 17:05:50 GMT 1
That's a nice looking queen, they look like paler L.flavus. I take it that she's about three years old? Yes, about 3 years I believe.
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Post by Myrm on Aug 19, 2012 10:14:14 GMT 1
19 August 2012, SundayKK, Just taken two pictures of some of the larvae being fed. They are large pictures so may squash the profiles on the left side of the page. Sorry. My awesome Poortea Bin Lid will be the first person to see these. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2012 10:17:40 GMT 1
Apart from the queens chamber, all the chambers look long and skiny, not like a ball They are cool photos Some of the larvae are fat
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Post by Myrm on Aug 19, 2012 10:19:15 GMT 1
Yes, these ants tend to make long chambers connected with short tunnels. That brood chamber, one of about 3, is just under the surface. The queen's chamber is much deeper down.
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