JPSMedeiros's Atta sexdens journal

Let everyone see the story of your colony(ies) over time. Pictures, developments, success and failures, what works / what doesn't, and your plans for expansion as time goes by!
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Post by Britishants.com » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:10 am

Very nice setup!

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Post by JPSMedeiros » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:18 pm

Thanks for the answers.

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Post by JPSMedeiros » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:31 pm

Update 04-02-17

The weeks after.
After 2 weeks from the moving process I can tell that the colony likes the setup and have adapted well. No ants died and the fungus seems to be healthy, even the worker with the weird legs still alive.
I wonder if I should connect another fungus chamber so they can start another garden, because if somehow one of them gets infected or invaded by something they would still have something to work with.


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Post by Acromyrmexbob » Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:39 pm

Setup looks great. You cannot connect another fungus chamber just now, they will not use it. They will always choose to completely fill one chamber before moving to the next. Also the population has to grow to the stage where they can manage two gardens. The only way to get 2 gardens growing would be to significantly reduce the nest chambers to the point where the first garden was completely filling the chamber. In these circumstances there is a good chance they would start another garden, otherwise you are still some months away from a second garden I think.

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Post by JPSMedeiros » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:06 am

Yeah, they probably wont create another chamber =(, it will take quite some time for them to fill this chamber tho.

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Post by JPSMedeiros » Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:36 pm

Not really an update, but a video showing how they cut the plants. They decided to carry a really big piece of plant, quite awesome =D.


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Post by RichardP » Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:28 pm

Great video... looking good.

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Post by JPSMedeiros » Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:54 am

Thanks =D

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Post by Atta solider » Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:46 pm

Nice colomy u got there

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Post by Andyj » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:54 pm

Great video :)

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