jon
Honey Pot Ant 
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Post by jon on Apr 11, 2012 20:51:22 GMT
Would anybody give me some tips, on keeping a colony with roughly 100-200 workers.  |
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 12, 2012 7:15:17 GMT
If you've not kept this species before Jon, they are really big ants and require a lot of space. Like all other species of this genera they are very fast and agile, so they will need a lot of food too as they are extremely energetic. I love the twin colour of ligniperda, and the long sausage shaped cream coloured eggs the queen lays. I only kept a small colony, so a colony with up to 200 workers will do best in as large a set as you can give them.  |
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jon
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Post by jon on Apr 12, 2012 8:15:14 GMT
How big would, their colonies grow?
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Post by Jenny on Apr 12, 2012 9:00:20 GMT
A lot depends on how much room they have, how much you feed them and if the conditions within the nest were just right. In the wild they can reach large numbers of many thousands, but in captivity I think perhaps 5,000 to 7,000 would be a good sized colony. This may help  Young Ligniperda Colony |
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jon
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Post by jon on Apr 12, 2012 9:21:56 GMT
Thanks, I will probably keep them in a fish tank, filled with "builders sand" and various stones/wood. How big would it have to be to contain a colony of that size? (1000's of workers).
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 12, 2012 9:32:49 GMT
You're looking around 5+ years from now Jon, but as ants adapt to the size of their nest area pretty well I would imagine a 3 foot fish tank would be about right.
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