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Post by smithy on Apr 7, 2008 18:37:35 GMT
I followed your advice down to a T and my Queen died. I'm not happy since I suggested moving them one way and I got told on here to do it a different way. My I have a load of ants just sitting around waiting to die. Cheers.
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Post by Shawn on Apr 7, 2008 19:05:30 GMT
Sorry to hear your queen died Mine died as well and I'm not sure why, but unfortunately they do die from time to time for no reason So sorry for your loss and hope you have luck next time, don't give up. Shawn
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 7, 2008 19:15:13 GMT
I followed your advice down to a T and my Queen died. I'm not happy since I suggested moving them one way and I got told on here to do it a different way. My I have a load of ants just sitting around waiting to die. Cheers. When you ask for advice, but feel that you already have the solution, it may be best to try your own way first. That way you only have yourself to blame if things go wrong, although to be quite honest I cannot see where anyone has given you bad advice on this matter; and to quote Robert Burns, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang awah!"Or in other words, any plan of action can go wrong Ant keepers will offer advice given on their own experiences; but ants do sometimes die off for no reason. Accept the fact that now you know that keeping ants is just like keeping any other animal, and that it is not always an easy hobby. Sorry you've lost your queen, but the loss of her life has taught you a lesson which hopefully means you won't make the same mistake again; and perhaps you will be able to offer useful advice for other ant keepers in the future
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Post by Jenny on Apr 7, 2008 20:46:51 GMT
I followed your advice down to a T and my Queen died. I'm not happy since I suggested moving them one way and I got told on here to do it a different way. My I have a load of ants just sitting around waiting to die. Cheers. Yes I am afraid once a queen dies, the rest of the workers are doomed, that is the way of ants! Sorry to read your queen has died, but no matter how much advice you receive from any forum/website, you still cannot rule out age or disease either, it is a fact of life. You are not to know, when you capture or buy a colony/queen what conditions they have lived in prior to you keeping them in captivity. Several lads on here have lost queens, and have learned from it, and started all over again. If you fail with one species, it does not mean you will fail with another. You keep trying, like anything else, and you learn to pick up bits of information from all sites and go with what you feel, works for you!
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Post by xcanadianantx on Apr 8, 2008 2:53:16 GMT
I am somewhat confused!!! What did they say to make you even imagine it was their fault. I would think it would be your fault that you did not use the proper set up the first time... thats just my opinion I'll shut up..
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Post by smithy on Apr 16, 2008 13:33:48 GMT
I am somewhat confused!!! What did they say to make you even imagine it was their fault. I would think it would be your fault that you did not use the proper set up the first time... thats just my opinion I'll shut up.. I think that is a wise idea. I'm not actually annoyed or anything. I was just more dissapointed. She was my first queen and I was hoping for a long and successfull riegn. It still gave me a chance to start fresh. I read somewhere it is good to mix their sand with a little soil which I never done last time. I now have the chance to read up completly and make the next home perfect. What time of year roughly will the ants do their mating flights? I don't really want to go destorying a collony looking for a queen, I'd prefer to just get a newly fertilised queen. Still I'm gonna miss my old Queen. RIP Osiris.
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Post by Jenny on Apr 16, 2008 14:02:22 GMT
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