Akaant's Camponotus Comments

Thanks. My first few workers were born below average size do to lack of food. This batch should be huge and healthy. It seems that young colonies are super picky but as they grow huge they become less picky.

The photos posted today of the Americanus show this species to be an amazing colour, and your colony seems to be doing well.

Now I understand what you meant. Comment here and post pic's/vids on the other page.

The C chromaides colony has 100's of larvae and pupae and a small batch of eggs (100ish)! I find it odd that the C americanus brood was more developed and fell behind in the larvae stages. I changed the foraging area in to a large fish tank connected by a long clear tube so the ants will not be clustered anymore and the flooring allows them to grip to the ground better. The next few weeks will be exciting to watch all the new workers hatching.

Most of the pupae are workers now and the remaining pupae are media/majors. The next batch are eggs and early stage larvae. I assume the queen is still laying eggs. The colony exceeds 1000 workers easily. I'm still unsure whether or not colony will officially mature.

I feed them 2-5 crickets every 2-3 days. Heavier feeding when they have many larvae. Caring for the colony has gotten easier as the colony grew larger.
I been busy the last few months and can only hop into the forums every so often.