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<blockquote data-quote="Avicularia Kael" data-source="post: 174197" data-attributes="member: 28481"><p>Like all of you, I really like keeping tarantulas, but I also keep ants. I don’t mean the ants that you buy off of the internet to put in ant farms and watch them die after a few weeks, I mean professional ant keeping. This is when you actually find and raise a queen ant.</p><p></p><p>I currently have two queens, though I had more in the last couple years who died due to my inexperience. I currently have a claustral queen and a semi claustral queen. Claustral queen ants don’t need any food until they get their nanitics, or first workers. My claustral queen is Camponotus novaeboracensis. She currently has a large batch of eggs.</p><p></p><p>Semi claustral queens on the other hand, need food and are generally much harder to raise. My current semi claustral queen is a Ponera pennsylvanica. This is a very hard to find and cryptic species. She is also really small, only about 4-6mm. On the other hand, my C. novaeboracensis queen is more like 15-20mm. However, semi claustral queens aren’t always really small, that only depends on the species. I have no clue if she has brood (eggs, larvae, pupae).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avicularia Kael, post: 174197, member: 28481"] Like all of you, I really like keeping tarantulas, but I also keep ants. I don’t mean the ants that you buy off of the internet to put in ant farms and watch them die after a few weeks, I mean professional ant keeping. This is when you actually find and raise a queen ant. I currently have two queens, though I had more in the last couple years who died due to my inexperience. I currently have a claustral queen and a semi claustral queen. Claustral queen ants don’t need any food until they get their nanitics, or first workers. My claustral queen is Camponotus novaeboracensis. She currently has a large batch of eggs. Semi claustral queens on the other hand, need food and are generally much harder to raise. My current semi claustral queen is a Ponera pennsylvanica. This is a very hard to find and cryptic species. She is also really small, only about 4-6mm. On the other hand, my C. novaeboracensis queen is more like 15-20mm. However, semi claustral queens aren’t always really small, that only depends on the species. I have no clue if she has brood (eggs, larvae, pupae). [/QUOTE]
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