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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 6:09:34 GMT 1
Wow, an oligogy would be fascinating to watch
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 8:19:15 GMT 1
Man its all very interesting, i wish i had started keep ants along time ago and saveds the hundreds of eurros that tropical fish keeping sucked out of me
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 16:10:08 GMT 1
My Lasius subumbratus colony was doing that for a little while, but it later shifted to a monogyny.
Keeping fish is great too! I'll restore my square 45 gallon tank someday...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 19:27:55 GMT 1
Yer Fish keeping as fun but also very demanding especially keeping the delicate types, with the special water conditions, I probably will keep fish again one day in the future especially if i have a kid or something, as i believe it will teach them about nature and also give them a responsibility in taking care of them, But i would go for a less demanding type of fish something like Oscars, they nice grow big, look nice and arnt fairy's that role over and die as soon as something dosnt quiet work out, lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 1:15:12 GMT 1
Ha! A low maintenance fish sounds a lot less stressful, that's for sure.
I'd imagine the importing or purchasing restrictions aren't as strict with fish compared to ants too. Then again, might not be as easy to find a great species in fish by just going outside and "finding" one like you can with ants. I guess they both will always have their pro's and con's?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 2:25:20 GMT 1
Ants are far more troublesome than fish.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 6:33:58 GMT 1
Really! I wouldn't have thought that! Oh, besides the whole, escaping and biting you part
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 8:11:56 GMT 1
Ants are far more troublesome than fish. Some how I think that unlikely, especially if your keeping a native Ant, I would imagine the only things you have to really worry about is Mold growth and and Hydration, were with fish 'Tropical' your looking after something that needs you to imitate its tropical environment, in fact a lot of people say that your more of a keeper of water than a keeper of fish as its the water that you have to make sure is good, I was having to replace 30litters per week of RO water, make sure acid levels were fine, Hardness was real Soft, which as hard, lol as the water in Spain is naturally real hard, hence the 30litters of RO, then you have Heat, Nitrate levels should be checked now and again to insure filters are working properly, not to mention tank cleaning, sucking out the poop Ah it was fun though, its like chemistry, lol Oh then you got problems with harmful bacteria's, fungus, pathogens and parasites that you always have to keep an eye on, Ill tell ya it leads to paranoia, once i spent that meany hours looking into a microscope trying to identify a fungus that when i finished i could see a white circle in one eye, still never identified it, in fact i have some photos of the fungus ill post in another thread some where. Any way batspiderfish its your turn, Lol, lets see if ant keeping can beat all that because if it can im starting to wounder what have i got my self in for.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 12:44:02 GMT 1
I was mostly referring to what happens when imported species could get loose. Ants aren't even classified as animals when it comes to this; they are like plants! Most species are impossible to eradicate once they get a foothold (except in the presence of even more invasive ants.) It's still funny you should bring up meticulous environmental maintenance, because I know of species that people simply can't keep alive. Any Lasius from the Acanthomyops subgenus often die after one week. Ponera is always very difficult to get started, and requires small, soft-bodied foods. Strumigenys seems to die later if it ever comes into contact with sunlight during capture. Obligate slave raiders like Polyergus and some Formica or workerless inquilines like Anergates will need captured host pupae for the duration of the colony's existence (if you can keep Anergates alive that long). Any fungus-growing species must have a sample of fungus with it (and a suitable environment for the fungus), or else they cannot produce food. These are just the examples I know of that are present in North America. A lot of these ants just die mysteriously, and we have no idea what causes it!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 16:21:43 GMT 1
wow, I hope my luck with the Messor Barbarus will fare well, I didn't think importation of tropical ant as allowed? The fungus growing ants are pretty cool, although I would have to have the ants that store honey in the behind, they look awsome, ill post a pic in the wish list thread, lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 15:42:40 GMT 1
Ant trade is illegal in the United States. All of those ants are native to the U.S. (although many of them are outside of my range).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2012 15:18:34 GMT 1
So according to www.domyownpestcontrol.com/ants-c-1.htmlWhen the queen dies, the colony will have a replacement female already lined up. This replacement female will eat the remains of the former queen, which will induce the proper chemical and hormonal changes necessary to transform the female in question into the new queen! Now if these ants were in the wild, they would also seek out a new location to establish a new colony.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2012 17:44:57 GMT 1
that is confusing so they will have to find a new nest site if they are to continue living but evryone else seems to think that the colony will eventually die off
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 7:37:03 GMT 1
Whoa, cool. They may choose to seek a new nest site to avoid whatever conditions caused the queen to die in the first place (I think it's usually illness etc.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 9:44:04 GMT 1
that sounds an interesting theory, a colony must be well developed i guess to be at a stage to have replacement queens lined up
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