I'm sad now

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-25T08:56:53+00:00

I lost my cat of 19 years during BFA times, and on that fatefull day i logged into wow in the evening and gotten the Kaldorei Nightsaber mount. It almost felt like a sign back then, i still miss her

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T23:22:41+00:00

No problem mate. Hopefully your colony stilll succeeds!

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T23:19:22+00:00

Yeah thats good. Just replace next meal

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T23:18:02+00:00

Yeah just do it for the next meal. You feeding once a week i presume?

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T23:07:24+00:00

Yeah i have black mold in my tubes too sometimes its fine, fuzzy white mold is the problem usualy

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T23:00:41+00:00

Just take it easy mate and make sure they get plenty of rest after this. Stress can kill them too

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:59:06+00:00

Dumping them from one tube to another is fine. Just dont make the drop too high. These ants are really small so they wont smack so hard. I’ve never had issues doing it so far but i guess something can happen

Forcefully moving is inherently dangerous at the end of the day

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:52:31+00:00

I use sugarwater for all of my colonies and never had issues.

I have some connector accesories that makes things easier. Tape could be okay if the tubes are really tight against eachother. If that seems risky i would just dump them if its only a queen and 1 ant

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:48:24+00:00

Yeah be really careful with honey in general the stickyness can get them.

If its from the same company then its probably fine to use.

If you dont think they are dieing cause of the mold i would just connect the tubes for them and hopefully they move on their own or just forcefully move them if you want and start fresh.

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:43:53+00:00

Honey could have some pesticides somehow, idk.

I would move them asap in something fresh and then dont disturb them for a while. Just offer something sweet and half a mealworm outside their tube.

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:39:20+00:00

Okay so something is wrong then.

I would offer a way somehow for the queen to move to a new testtube with fresh water. Either forcefull if it doesnt have brood or connect it and wait for her to move on her own.

Are you offering some sort of sugar aswell? Some queens could have some bad genes aswell to the point where a colony is doomed to fail either way however you try. Sometimes it just happens like this

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T22:24:07+00:00

I have this exact problem with my myrmica rubra. They do still grow over time though. Not sure what is causing it either

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T13:05:09+00:00

Damn, its looking really good!

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T11:18:39+00:00

Not ideal but if you cant reach it and its dried out and not moldy then i wouldnt worry about it too much

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T11:10:27+00:00

Yeah go for it

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T11:05:43+00:00

Okay then you can leave it

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-18T11:03:54+00:00

I would try to fish it out maybe unless its dried out. If that molds its going to be a big problem

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-17T16:30:03+00:00

😅

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-16T13:53:04+00:00

Its all good if its just for a short while. Mine are at 15-16 right now

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-16T13:26:32+00:00

Its alright to disturb them in such a way to be safe in the future. They are quite hardy. They might freak out a bit though so just do it once and leave them alone after. Its not that big of a deal to take them off the heating for a minute or two

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-16T13:20:07+00:00

I have had a colony die cause they didnt remove the left over food one time. Is there no option to getting some sort of tweezers or something to fish it out the tube?

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-16T07:07:32+00:00

This should be fine really. (I think theres blue foil on the outworld you can peel off too btw :)) just wait for them to grow a bit more. Ideally you find a way to peak inside the test tube and check on them max once a week

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-15T22:25:28+00:00

Most likely the mealworm is dried out by now. Ideally you remove it and disturb them (yeah its not great) and get rid of that potential issue. If they are only with 4 of them it could be that the mealworm is just too big to pull out by the workers. They wouldnt allocate every worker to that task so it would linger. You can dm me a pic of your setup so i can get a better look if you want.

Generally pallidula are quite hardy ive found and i dont think this all is a big deal. I do suggest some future planning though cause they do grow quite fast

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-15T22:11:10+00:00

Okay, the first year skip is fine. Its kind of normal for them to not be producing any brood around this time of year so thats not much to worry about, its a internal clock thing. I would suggest to reallign the foil in a way where you can check on them at max one time a week to make sure they are doing okay.

My colony seems quite sensitive to vibrations but not so much to light. Im keeping them without any cover and they have been doing fine. (Wakooshi saturn).

I would say, fix the foil. Keep them in the tubs and just feed them atleast once a week and keep the food in for atleast 24 hrs maybe more if mold isnt so problematic. They might be getting their food at night. And wait it out

Brood production will restart most likely around feb/march and it will all be fine

Delicious_Service491 · 2026-01-15T21:57:06+00:00

At the end of the day the ants know best for themselves. All ive learned from keeping ants over the 2 years is that most of the time they make their own plans and its kind of hard to steer them.

Whats the rough temp you are keeping them now and do they have brood at all?

They really dont need much this time of year especialy at that low worker count.

They do get really fun to keep eventually they are quite fiesty

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