A Great tip for using when starting Acromyrmex colonies from very small.

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Re: A Great tip for using when starting Acromyrmex colonies from very small.

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:44 pm

I thought maybe they had used the pod because the nest was full. So something needs adjusted in the nest tank then to make them content to stay.

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Re: A Great tip for using when starting Acromyrmex colonies from very small.

Post by Deansie26 » Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:57 pm

Acromyrmexbob wrote:I thought maybe they had used the pod because the nest was full. So something needs adjusted in the nest tank then to make them content to stay.
Probably, bet if I put the colony in the pod thing they would move into the unit just to piss me off!

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Re: A Great tip for using when starting Acromyrmex colonies from very small.

Post by Atta solider » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:08 am

My atta colony workers make new nests in my outworld we're I feed them and they build there fungus around the sticks were there was once leafs on them I've got pics of the small fungus on the sticks

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