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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2012 14:18:33 GMT 1
Hi all, first time ant keeper here and i would like your advise and input on the plaster nest I built. i currently have a lasus niger queen and her brood in a test tube, am i right in thinking i should keep her in it until some workers appear? Nest can be sen here imgur.com/Uob9sHole at the bottom where the purple black out cars is where the test tube is fitted, moving up there is a tube to the outside currently being used to get some moisture down to the lower half of the nest. Above that is another tube leading out in to the jar which is a stand in until i can build / buy a better foraging area, currently im leaving water & food in this jar. There is an internal water trench which can be filled through a hole in the top at the top of the plaster cast, this appears to disperse the water across the width of the nest. question for thos more experienced, can you see anything horribly wrong or anything I could change/ or improve? i have a concrete block nest in the works if this dosnt work out but im unsure as to weather i picked up the correct block.
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Post by Myrm on Sept 27, 2012 17:34:09 GMT 1
Hi derpsik, and welcome to the forum. Thank you for supporting us by joining. I don't have any experience with plaster nests so I will leave those that do to answer those questions. You don't have to keep her in the test tube until she has workers, it's personnal preference really. You could attach the test tube to the ant farm and let her make her own mind up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 0:03:36 GMT 1
Hi myrm, thanks for the reply, decided to introduce the queen to a smaller net made from ytong untill they show some action, got a batch of messor barbarus coming to go in this plaster one, will update as it progresses just out of interest, how hard is it once they are moved in to one nest to then move them in to a different habitat?
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Post by Myrm on Sept 28, 2012 6:31:19 GMT 1
Hi myrm, ...just out of interest, how hard is it once they are moved in to one nest to then move them in to a different habitat? It depends what type of set up you have them in. If you have them in a green AntWorld then it's vary easy as they just pull apart. Enclosed farms would prove to be much more difficult.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2012 21:42:18 GMT 1
Hi myrm, thanks for the reply, decided to introduce the queen to a smaller net made from ytong untill they show some action, got a batch of messor barbarus coming to go in this plaster one, will update as it progresses just out of interest, how hard is it once they are moved in to one nest to then move them in to a different habitat? It can be done quite easily using a few simple techniques. This video by AntsCanada should explain how it's done. Hope that helps! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 4:05:22 GMT 1
I've used a few techniques for a queen with eggs that have been very effective. The one I did recently which worked like a charm was simply connect the two nests, and cover the one that you want her to go in so it's dark. Leave the "old" one in the light. She explored the new place and went straight in! was great.
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