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Post by Kyle on Jul 14, 2009 11:54:23 GMT
Now for no reason Feeding ;D
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Post by Quah on Jul 15, 2009 5:09:32 GMT
Are those cockcroaches? My mortal enemy. Good to know they are ants' food.
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Post by Kyle on Jul 15, 2009 14:26:31 GMT
yer they're Blaptica Dubia, and I do not know many people who would say they like them lol yer my ants love'em
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Post by formica on Jul 24, 2009 19:27:59 GMT
Seem like a reall good source of protein.
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Post by Kyle on Jul 25, 2009 23:09:25 GMT
well they are one of the biggest food insects I have (apart from locust) so yes they do have a lot of meat on'em, but I think the fact that they are roaches puts some people off ;D
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Post by formica on Jul 26, 2009 10:36:40 GMT
They are also very expensive!
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Post by Kyle on Jul 26, 2009 10:50:32 GMT
they are not really that much, and you can get some real bargins on Ebay, I mean I got my whole set-up for about £15-20 I think, that was tub, heat mat and roaches (100-200), so if you look around you can get them really cheap ;D
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Post by formica on Jul 26, 2009 10:55:32 GMT
Well you got them cheaper than Jon I think. ;D
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Post by Quah on Jul 28, 2009 2:39:41 GMT
Can't imagine having to pay for cockroaches. Here we have so many species. Small to large. Mostly I squash them whenever I see them which is quite often. Have never met a cockroach that I like ;D. Sometimes I feed small cockroaches to my ants but mostly I prefer termites or even crickets. I must consider myself lucky living where I do. There are literary thousands of species of creepy crawlies, especially ants crawling everywhere and termites.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jul 28, 2009 6:59:08 GMT
Can't imagine having to pay for cockroaches. Here we have so many species. Small to large. Mostly I squash them whenever I see them which is quite often. Have never met a cockroach that I like ;D Reminds me of the hospital where I started my nurse training back in 1970. When I did night duty and had to go from one ward to another I would see plenty of cockroaches. Night duty nurses did was known as "The Cockroach Stomp Dance" as we either stomped the things to death, or had to dance our way around the hundreds that ran across the floor, especially in the darkness of the hospital kitchen area. My favourite ward was Male 7, a geriatric ward of 57 old men which I often had to care for on my own. This ward was heavily infested with Pharaoh Ants (Monomorium pharaonis). These tiny ants got everywhere. In patients lockers, beds, food; and in the ward office they could be seen with dozens of queens walking up the walls by the heating pipes. One Christmas I was told to eat whatever I fancied from the goody box, so I opened a box of dates which had not previously been touched, only to find these ants had got there first and it was just a mass of swarming workers. It didn't put me off dates, but I threw that box in the bin that's for sure
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Post by Quah on Jul 29, 2009 1:01:25 GMT
Pharaoh ants (and also Pheidole) use to be a very common pest here in Malaysia. Now I hardly ever come across any trails of these ants. This is all thanks to modern pesticide.
Just three weeks ago I came across one nest of the same Pheidole (that used to be a pest) and a nest of Pharaoh ant in the same place. It was one of those Indian roadside food stalls that is very common here. Too bad I did not have my camera with me. It had been years since I last saw either.
As for cockroaches, there are everywhere still, even in air-conditioned supposedly upper class restaurants. I blog about one such incident where a cockroach actually crawled up the leg of a lady diner. But thankful I don't have any in the apartment I live in now because if ever one makes it in they are not going to go out alive. When I first move in the place was crawling with them.
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Post by Kyle on Apr 7, 2010 15:26:56 GMT
A Fruit Fly mix that actually work (in my opinion) and does not go mouldy or smell to bad (apart from the alcoholic kinda smell from the yeast). As anyone who has looked up Fruit fly mixes will have seen a lot of them tend to use mash potato mixes (there are others but I can't remember them), and in my experience they tend to smell quite bad or go very mouldy, so I thought I'd post the mix that I'm using at the moment (which I got off of an American website/forum and change a little), which so far the only problem I have is making to little of the stuff. 1 cup of water 1 table spoon of cornflour (does not need to be an expensive one just something cheap) 1 teaspoon of gelatine (I use a Sainburys own brand, cheap but works ) 1 table spoon of black treacle (lyles black treacle the most expensive thing on the list) 1 packet of yeast So bring everything but the yeast to boil and mix it all in, then once mixed poor into the tub (wait for it to cool down other wise it just melts the tub (if using plastic) and burns your hand ), then put in the fridge and wait for them to set (should be like a jelly), then just add the yeast and they are ready, I like to add the yeast about a day before adding the flies. Edit I forgot to say only add about 15 grains of yeast max or it will go mouldy unless you have a lot of flies, you get a feel for how much yeast you need each time you do it The finished product And if you don't like maggots look away
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Post by Quah on Apr 8, 2010 1:45:29 GMT
Fruit flies! I use to breed them (both the flightless and wingless species) to feed my halfmoon Betta splendens (the siamese fighting fish) and other wild Betta species. Their maggots (larvae) are readily taken by fish and ants alike.
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