Martin's Atta colony

[MartinD]

Got my new colony a week or so ago from Andrew: here are a few pics of initial developments

Arrived and introduced:





After few days:



Week or so later:



Will update with current picture tonight, growing very nicely: first soldier about to be born (whatever the correct terminology is). Was quite surprised to see a couple of soldier pupae in this size colony, but nice surprise

[Formica123]

Looking fantastic!!!
Much bigger fungus than the last colony already !

[MartinD]

[Formica123]

Looking good!

[Deansie26]

Great stuff Martin, glad to see you jumped straight back in. Is your set up basically the same?
Can I ask what that green flexi hose is from?

[Shamual]

This is why Andrew is my bae.

Because he's so damn generous with the fungus.

[MartinD]

Deansie it is very similar setup, the nest box is sitting on biscuit tile (absorbent non painted tile) as before, but this time I have added sand around base and tile, is really helping to keep box humid .
The green walk way, is just a cheap garden wire type thing I found in the local poundshop. It is a fine dense foam outer, with metal wire inner, meaning you can contort it to shape you want. Ideal size atm for the colony.

[Acromyrmexbob]

The colony is looking strong and well recovered. Nice dark fungus, they will go well now I think. You need a humidity probe and a temperature probe right in where the fungus is so you are measuring directly off the fungus what the conditions are right there. Happy to see progress.

[MartinD]

Update. Still doing well.





New nest box prepared for them to expand into:

[Deansie26]

Fantastic!