Ants keep trying to climb out of the outworld, they have food, water and Idk im new to antkeeping , i tried it once before but got an infertile queen, this one is an odd story, so one of our pear trees fell, and i was using my chainsaw to cut it into foot long pieces, then when i went to split it ants exploded out if it, and they started dying because it was so cold out, originally i didn’t care lowk but then i felt bad because i kinda like ripped apart their home so i took a chance on a quarter piece they all started running into, and put it into a terrarium, ive been trying to get them into this formicarium and out of that damn piece of wood for a while now and its worrying me, i keep finding dead ants in the corner of the terrarium and they keep trying to escape the walls but i have tubing going to a formicarium they refuse to enter, one major is chilling in it and wont leave, but none of the others will move. I have seen the queen, at one point she left the wood to go in a test tube i had covered, but then she left, man i dont know what to do i need them out of this stupid log .
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u/CoolTRG — 9 days ago
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I have tried vinyl tubing and silicone, my ants are being picky and refusing to go in them (camponotus pennsylvanicus) does anyone have any tubing recommendations for picky ants?
u/CoolTRG — 12 days ago
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bought this tubing and my ants dont like it, i bought this one because they didnt want to walk in the vinyl tubing i bought from the hardware store. i think it might be from off gassing, they keep trying to leave from the top of the outworld they are nested in a log im tryna get them out of, but they wont go in the tubing to get to the new formicarium i printed, i am at a loss why are they doing this?
u/CoolTRG — 14 days ago