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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 20, 2016 8:50:39 GMT
Feel free to post any questions or comments about my C. Xiangban colony on this thread please.
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Post by Welsh Ant on Mar 25, 2016 14:24:47 GMT
I like the videos of your ants Wood. Some really nice cool species you keep.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 25, 2016 16:33:09 GMT
I like the videos of your ants Wood. Some really nice cool species you keep. I will keep making videos of the ants that are doing well, as I'm not so good at taking photos. My hopes are to keep a few more fancy ants as many of the species from other countries are lovely to look at, and a bit more exciting than our very common British ants.
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Post by shane on Mar 26, 2016 8:56:31 GMT
Every time I see Camponotus singularis they look like something you find in fruit store ![:)](http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/c015.gif) , Great photos.
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Post by occultus on Apr 19, 2016 9:10:40 GMT
Congratulations on obtaining the Camponotus sericeus colony ![:)](http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/c015.gif) They are beautiful ants. I can't wait to see them!
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Post by occultus on Apr 24, 2016 10:54:21 GMT
I'm really enjoying watching your Camponotus Xiangban colony. They remind me of Autumn with their great clolour.
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Post by deansyme on May 1, 2016 13:15:43 GMT
Looks like the singularis colony will be very busy soon!
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 1, 2016 13:27:16 GMT
Looks like the singularis colony will be very busy soon! At present it is the queen and 17 workers, but the brood is around 70+ eggs and larvae, so yes things are getting rather busy. ![;)](http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/c033.gif)
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Post by Zarbi on May 4, 2016 9:03:55 GMT
Those recent photos are lovely, Jenny has caught the colours of the ants to show them off at their best.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 6, 2016 7:33:58 GMT
The odd thing is with my Asian Camponotus is, only the C. habereri come out foraging in numbers at all times of the day and night. The rest of my colonies seem to prefer to forage after 11 in the morning until about 7 PM and then return to the nest. Having said this however none of the species seem not to be eating, and as long as the brood is fed and healthy, and the adults are alive and well, I can only hope my other colonies will become more active and grow as well as my habs have.
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Post by shane on May 12, 2016 16:19:25 GMT
Grate videos of your Camponotus sericeus. I always forget to video them when they emerging to callow ants. There cocoons to are made of 100% silk like most of other larvae that cocoon.
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Post by elitzchupa on Jun 2, 2016 8:14:06 GMT
How easy is it to raise camponotus from a queen? I am thinking of getting a nicobarensus queen but not sure of the difficulty of raising from the founding stage.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 2, 2016 15:59:43 GMT
How easy is it to raise camponotus from a queen? I am thinking of getting a nicobarensus queen but not sure of the difficulty of raising from the founding stage. It probably depends a lot on the individual species, but a nice warm dark place should the brood to develop faster, and only checking on the queen for short periods of time each day so as not to stress her and make her eat her brood. While this applies to all newly mated queens, Camponotus do seem slow to get started. A small colony with some brood and maybe 6+ workers usually stands a better chance of making it.
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Post by occultus on Jun 17, 2016 10:13:34 GMT
Camponotus singularis
This is very odd to have a newborn male in such a young Camponotus colony. The alarm bells are ringing in my mind that she may be infertile. I Hope this is just a one off.
If more males are born, you will certainly deserve a refund considering all your time and money invested. Its either an honest mistake or a greedy despicable supllier in Asia.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 17, 2016 14:32:49 GMT
Yes that was my first thought too Occultus, although most of the cocoons look a bit bigger than the one that contained the male. I actually got this colony from Dean Syme, who I believe got all his Asian ants from a Chinese seller who sells on Facebook by the name of Yinzhu Li who runs an ant shop. This is just some of her stock of ants and formicariums. ![](http://thumb.ibb.co/fbn8Tv/ant_shop.jpg) I hope workers will be born into this colony soon, as I don't want a queen who has produced so much brood to be infertile. ![:'(](http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/c021.gif)
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