My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

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My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by s0n0h0n » Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:13 am

I brought Leaf cutter ants three days ago.

Species Acromyrmex Octopinosus and Colony scale is 10 big workers, 10~15 small workers, 1 queen and Fungus is the size of a golf ball.

I will show you the Pictures in order

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When they arrived, the Fungus was all breaked, but they were all repaired in a day.

I feed rose leaves and petals. i seemed to prefer leaves to petals.

I am very interested to see the leaf cutter ant for the first time :D


Here are some questions.

1.I've been thinking a lot about the bottom flooring. i considered gypsum or sawdust. but i had a simple setting i'm keeping the humidity in a tissue now.
If the Colony grows bigger, i will separate the Feed tank and the Colony case, and then i will think about the bottom flooring materials again.
Please tell me the type of flooring materials and their advantages and disadvantages.

2.Recommend that the leaf ants serve many different foods? or is it better to give only favorite food?

3.How long does a Acromyrmex small workers live??

I am not good at english so there may be a wrong sentence. i hope you understand.

Thank you

s0n0h0n

Is there anyone in this forum?

Post by s0n0h0n » Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:51 pm

No one responded to my post... :cry:

But there are people who read me, so i will continue to post


My colony's fungus is getting bigger. it's awesome,amazing and i feel interesting

look at the my colony


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Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by Docxx » Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:18 pm

Welcome to the forum, It has been very quiet here recently, I agree.

Congrats on the new colony, I can't see any pictures however :/

s0n0h0n

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Post by s0n0h0n » Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:46 am

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Can you see now?? plz check

In my colony for a while, larva and pupa died :cry:

i guess there were not many workers to take care of them...

Compared to the numer of workers, fungus were big and rooms large.

I decided to take some of the fungus off.

And now, a new worker is being born and there are no dead larvas

s0n0h0n

Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by s0n0h0n » Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:50 am

Please reply to this post. i want communicate :D


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Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by Docxx » Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:16 pm

Very nice pictures. Looks good. How do you keep the fungus Humid/heated?

s0n0h0n

Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by s0n0h0n » Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:44 am

Docxx wrote:Very nice pictures. Looks good. How do you keep the fungus Humid/heated?
They are staying inside a heating box with a temperature of 27-28 degrees and humidity being kept as a wet tissue.

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Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:54 pm

Hi, late reply!! Pictures are amazing! Would love to know what equip you are using.
In terms of your setup, how is it going. Growth looks great, very healthy. Have you managed to keep things going?

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Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by Atta solider » Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:50 pm

How is the humidity in the set up I would put small clear tube over the fungus if the humidity not right I have done with a colony that was size of yours and it grow lot and fast.
And also put some spil around it that can use make a small open in the tube and they make it how they want it.

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Re: My first a leaf cutter ants. Please advise

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:13 pm

Pictures are stunning! Amazing. What are you uasing to take them? Do you still have your colony?

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