Leaf Cutting Ant Forum

If the queen and her workers are all friendly (about 40) should I add them or continue to add more workers?

she has passed away in the night, this morning all the ants where cleaning here (seeing there tongues) it was my first colony and because of my very inexperiencedness they only lasted 3 days blooming water! I would love to try again I really enjoyed watching this colony do its day to day work. at times i was literally sitting and watching them for 2 hours straight but I really cant afford another mainly coz im poor thank you everyone for your very helpful advice but sadly it was not enough, if only there was some magic spell which makes her come back to life.

Sorry to hear that Jim. I failed with my first Atta colony which i think were poisoned by where i got my leaves from but not sure. All you can do is put it all down to experience and start reading and saving. Don't let it all put you off though.

That's a real shame Jim, as Andy already said start reading and saving and you will have another before long.

Thanks Andy, but the problem is I got all the advanced things perfect (temp,humidity,leafs) but I couldn't do the basics (make sure the queen cant fall in the water)

Thanks Deansie already £25 in hahaha

Real shame Jim, I know that you were really well prepared and got everything perfect for them. Just a shame that you had to have an adventurous queen

Better luck next time.

If it makes just feel better, I failed with my first 4 Acromyrmex colonies...

hahaha yes marco, also sorry to hear on your losses, I may have to put my next colonys queen in chains then she wont be able to run away

13/8/16

hi guys the queen past in the night not last night but the night before but there is some good news the fungus is growing nicely. with lots of new black areas. I will be getting a new smaller colony (hopefully will be shipped Monday) which I hope to integrate together

The fungus is looking nice Jim, it will be interesting to see how your integration of bagel two go, I think it will be a first on the forum by any member is my memory serves me right.