
And when you feed a lot of cornflakes, the fungus turns golden.



Completely dry, I use it also to reduce the humidity in the fungus chamber: dry cornflakes in => moist fungus waste out!
same here. And they take them faster than I can take photos - when I put them in, the first are carried away before I can take out my cell phone and open the photo app to take some photos!
I would argue it's a sign you're doing the right thing. Occasional breaks in fungus growth means you have done a good job providing enough food for the fungus that they no longer need to feed it for the time being.Acromyrmexbob wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:35 pmTry to remember that the fungus is a resource that the ants use to feed the brood. When it is large enough to do this they will not simply keep growing it bigger and bigger because they can.. When the requirement for food increases within the colony beyond what the fungus is capable of providing then the ants will expand the fungus. This is how a colony grows. In the absence of detrimental factors causing the fungus to decline, the fungus s maintained at a size commensurate with the needs of the colony. This is why it sometimes stalls and does not increase in size for a while. Generally nothing to worry about.