The Trinidad Ant Room

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The Trinidad Ant Room

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:54 pm

So in Trinidad I use a room in the house I have over there to store the ants. I built an 8ftx4ft table and took a pond liner over to create a table with around 5cm deep of water on it.
Next I took over a couple of hundred plant pots to act as islands.

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After the first day of serious collecting the table looked like this...

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and after the first 3 days the first table was pretty much full.

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For the other colonies that I got i had to build a second table for the first time. This saved a great deal of hassle and made the whole job much easier.

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Post by Deansie26 » Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:40 pm

I bet everyone on this forum just loves these pictures lol. Fantastic sight.

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Post by Andyj » Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:46 pm

My worries are for your health Andrew. Just how many take aways do you get through to have this many tubs ? :)

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Post by Acromyrmexbob » Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:48 pm

Andyj wrote:My worries are for your health Andrew. Just how many take aways do you get through to have this many tubs ? :)
Asha can put away a few curries every night, you dont get a figure like that without feeding it!

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Post by Jackie62 » Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:12 am

Do you find them raiding each other at all? I can see opportunity in the water from debris that they could raft on.

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Post by Acromyrmexbob » Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:09 pm

Jackie62 wrote:Do you find them raiding each other at all? I can see opportunity in the water from debris that they could raft on.
Hi Jackie, no, no raiding. I put a tiny drop of detergent into the water. Every particle that doesn't sink does sink when an ant climbs onto it. Also raiding generally happens among established colonies. I find that they are not generally interested in neighbouring colonies until after I get them home and they are set up. However I do run my hand through any stuff that starts to build up in the water every day. I think the secret is spending time with them every day. I was around 3 hours per day by the end of the trip. I love it!!

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