I think that until winter I will get only 1 first generation of fuliginosus workers , but I hope after hibernation all thinks will do great

Heh ... I´ve bought it here in Slovakia , it is 940 x 635 x 15 mm ... price ca 20,33 € . I´ve found maximum 30mm strong (41,29 € ) , or a block of 320 x 100 x 650 mm (38,29 €)

cork mixed to 0,5-1mm was ca 3€/kg

I hope similar cork shops are in your country too

Yes , it is problem if you do not clean it. You can easily put pull-in big amount of water all the tube ... and circulate it there (with no spray in chamber - physics). That is how you can clean that pipe.

I think it is good to make after all feeding , not to mold that pipe inside.

I think it is good to see a colony now , when is young. When there will be hundreats of ants , it is good when they dig their own nest , because only they know how to make it good (we can just learn from them). Now I need to see queen and workers and brood how it develope , later I do not need - hop...

Hello, I have decided to make a little bit experimental "prototype" nest. Same , like my previous topic "Stormhold" this is same new to me. Please do not hate me - I like to call my own formicaries by project names :) I thought , how to keep ant species which almost all of their ...

Hello everyone, for a longer time I have not visited this forum , but last month I had more time for ant keeping and study ants - and it just means that I have created some formicaries and still working on some. I always say , we all as ant keeping community need to improve and test many unusual kin...

My queens has larvae at the moment and they are doing very well! I´ve discovered that they prefer to estamblish colony on its own - workers do not do anything bad , but I think that in some samples eggs has been eaten (probably by these workers..) , so in the future , if I would make an colony , pr...

Hello, I´ve made this topic just for share a bit of my knowledge with this community, so not a blog or somethink else. You probably read a name of this ant species first time. Well , it is one of the rarest European species aswell. There is not much documentation about them... , but I think it is g...

I do not know what specie it exactly is. It is specie what I usually use in my formicaries and terrariums. It do not lost green color after death or dry (other species what I´ve tried do )

I have updated my formicary a little bit: there is a speciel specie of moss inside on ground , it looks very nice I think :) http://forum.mravce.info/download/file.php?id=408 A chamber with brood: http://forum.mravce.info/download/file.php?id=409 There are 2 tubes for nest at the moment , colony gro...

Today and yesterday I had a time for testing and HD video recording of ants. However HD video is very huge (pwnd 170MB/1min) , I just converted it to .avi and uploaded it on youtube - so it is not so good there :) I wish to make an documentary film about ant-keeping this year in HD , probably done a...

Hello , ants are doing very well :) and I am proud of it. I wish to reach 100 workers this month - almost all old workers died and there are 90 percent of new ones which have born at my home I have new camera Canon SX30 IS ... , still learn to make a makro with it ... I need to buy some Raynox DCR-2...

Ants are in and they really enjoy it. They grabbed sand from arena and they´ve put it into nest on glass - however it is a bit wet I can´t see well. However they have full stomach and also like to hunt Drosophila in arena :) I usually move ants by bridge ... ... I will probably stop to heat it and...

I am not sure if I understand so well :) ... but yesterday I added there one small Formica rufibarbis colony in tube , and they moved into plaster/corked tube in ca 3 hours with no light. They are actually after hibernation , I think there will be eggs in 2 weeks , then it will show how useful or ea...

It is very simple. Same effect like is used in mrowkoyad acryllic formicary. Point of this all is in watering bottom chambers. You know , in nature are also wet only bottom chambers and on top are dry. Second think is about power of construction. You can´t do this all by plaster - ants will destroy...

Sorry for double post , but I´ve made video about to better imagination

Yes of course, I still can´t type "Shift" button , but it is some low-end keyboard , it survives everything. My HTC phone also got some drops of plaster , but it is alive too

Hello, for start , some translations from slovak to english (I am lazy to make different pics) Korok = cork sadra = plaster sadrovy odliatok = plaster form I am not sure if anyone tried this before , but I´ve never seen it. I just tried it first time today and it looks really fine :) ... it is wet ...

Thanks , I think that is not a project , just a new formicary on my shelf :D , now I have some free days (holiday) so I have to make new formicaries. Off topic respond: my Oecophylla doing fine. I have a video on youtube what I uploaded some days ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGGGjRZRc4 these ...

Hello, I´ve made today new formicary called "Dakara" what is in style of Arizona desert. I will not translate here how I made it exactly , you can use google and translate this page if you want ( http://forum.mravce.info/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=321 ). I´ve made it in style of these photo...

In terarium like this is better to use "coco husk" what you can buy in aquaterra shop in your town (in Slovakia cca 2€/brick = cca 6-8 litres). It better keep water in like sponge. When "turf" soil will dry one time , it worse safe water after (same like plaster). There is also...

Hello , my Oecophylla doing very well. I can see there new 20 uncolored workers , maybe 10 pupae , more than 50 larvae and probably 50-100 new eggs. It looks like they are doing fine , I will probably put there second tube soon I was not thought that keeping will be so easy.

Flies are freezed ... (but sometimes I find on window at home hehe) ... , and crickets are fresh - killed of course. We have pet-shop and we keep crickets there so there is possibility to get all sized :) I also give them sugar or honey water , but they prefer to lick whole water condensation from g...

It does not indeed.

I can still put PTFE on top of terrarium and then there is no escape during clean/feed to them

I put all in this picture

My colony looks very well. They closed enter of tube by their net with small hole in hehe. All members of colony are full of food , queen too. I recognized that brood of this specie grow ver quickly. I had there small larvae when I received colony and now is tube full of pupae , or prepupa. I manage...

Today I checked inside tube ... there are 3 new workers and some larvae became prepupa. There are some new eggs too , also about 20-30 small larvae. Ants are full of food and queen looks healthy and she is nicely active. Ants eats one small part of mealworm and <7mm cricket a day. They´re getting a...

Humm gratz , articles as you wrote me I can´t find in any book about ants I have ... , damned that I was prepared for Paraponera colony and at last I found out that I will receive Oecophylla... - specie what I was not preparing to keep so much. Okay ... so , larvae to develop need green fresh leafs...

OK thanks , I was not thought that my own topic will be created. Hm , yes ... but of course it was only plastic box on heating with tubes in: http://www.fotothing.com/photos/e2e/e2ef530eb7dec98dc49bc70517e3e8c9_917.jpg ... I have quite different - we will just see if mine is useful or not Of course ...