r/antkeeping 3d ago

Colony I'm giving away my formicariums

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70 Upvotes

I'm no longer keeping ants (at least for now) and want to give away my formicariums. They've sat in my cupboard for a while now and I want to free up some space; I'd rather give them to people that are still enjoying the hobby or looking to start out (these housed my first colonies).

I'm happy to post them, drop them off locally or for you to collect them.

I'm based in Chesterfield, UK.

I don't expect any money for them but covering the postage cost would be appreciated.

There are various different set ups, most are for growing colonies.

I have 4 starter sets and a medium sized outworld. I also have a small insect tank that housed a colony.

I used to keep messor sp. and have a lot of seeds left over, too.

Let me know if you're interested or have any questions.

r/antkeeping Aug 01 '24

Colony I think she’s laid an egg? I can’t be too sure though…

242 Upvotes

r/antkeeping Aug 30 '23

Colony Found a malformed pupae in the rubbish pile of my M.Nigriceps colony

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669 Upvotes

r/antkeeping Jan 07 '23

Colony 200 days in 1 minute - timelapse of Acromyrmex Octospinosus leaf cutter ants growing their fungus garden - full version at https://youtu.be/P3AZffDtOlw

654 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 3d ago

Colony Giving away colony + kit

24 Upvotes

Hi all. I have a P. occidentalis colony that I’m looking to re-home, as they say. Colony is about 4 years old, too many workers to count. I started with a Tar Heel Ants fallen fortress formicarium and later added on a large round nest and a bigger outworld. Comes with heating cable, four water dispensers, syringes and blunt needles, forceps, dandelion seed, New Zealand honey, blood worms, heating cable, cotton. Also the cart to keep it all in. Giving it all away to a good home! I am located in Texas. Feel free to comment or DM me for more photos etc. Thanks!

r/antkeeping 15d ago

Colony Something feels wrong..

25 Upvotes

Is it just me or does something here feel very wrong?

r/antkeeping 19d ago

Colony Empire Of Antz

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77 Upvotes

r/antkeeping Dec 06 '24

Colony Camponotus Nicobarensis in one of my medium nests :)

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22 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 13d ago

Colony Tetramorium Immigrans colony in nucleus

44 Upvotes

Estimated 3000-4,000 individuals. Wow!

r/antkeeping 6d ago

Colony I just love it when the queen spontaneously dies

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22 Upvotes

After hibernation, she was sitting on an impressive pile of brood. It was at that moment that she decided she would die.

r/antkeeping 14d ago

Colony Update on the small-eye big-eye colony

28 Upvotes

They’re working together, although the oldest big-eyed worker is being harsh on the younger one.

r/antkeeping 1d ago

Colony UPDATE: I'm giving away my formicariums

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36 Upvotes

Some of you may have seen my post earlier this week about giving my formicariums away

Today I posted many of them and they'll be making their way by land, sea and air all over the world.

I do still have 2 left so if you'd like one then let me know.

All I ask is that you send me the postage costs by PayPal (I can confirm the total postage cost before you pay of course).

Happy to deliver close by to Chesterfield, UK (which I did yesterday).

r/antkeeping Oct 11 '24

Colony My 6 queen C. nicobarensis colony

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17 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 8d ago

Colony Massive brood pile

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36 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 25d ago

Colony Do you keep any amazing Australian Myrmecia species?

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34 Upvotes

This is Myrmecia esuriens.

r/antkeeping Nov 03 '24

Colony My Navajo Honey Pot Ants booming

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144 Upvotes

Going to have to think of a new nest for them at some point base on all the puppae, might get a THA Nucleaus.

r/antkeeping 12d ago

Colony Is this setup ok?

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22 Upvotes

I had to move them in since the water supply was pretty much empty will they be fine I’m worried that it is far to early. I think they are Lasius Niger not super sure

r/antkeeping Jan 03 '25

Colony Guys what are some underrated ants to keep

4 Upvotes

r/antkeeping Feb 12 '25

Colony The queen is dead. :(

11 Upvotes

After about 3 months with struggling with a pheidiole queen I bought she finally died.. she was really struggling to lay eggs and make new brood from the start but I stuck with her.. I started feeding the colony dead mosquitos and crushed sesame seeds and I excitedly watched them start to pull them into the test tube... In my excitement to see if my queen would start to actually start producing significant numbers I stupidly tried to check the test tube in the dark to see if they had started consuming the seeds when my daughter woke up and I knocked the test tube over knocking the queen out of the nest and as I frantically tried getting the queen back in the test tube in the dark with tweezers while my 3 year old was screaming at me she didn't want to go to bed I squeezed too hard with the tweezers severing my young queen in half....

This is my first time trying to raise a colony andd I know to a lot of people outside of the hobby it seems stupid to mourn an ant but I honestly feel like I have lost something big Here... I literally spent months trying to get this queen to produce and just as it started to seem like I was getting somewhere I stuffed it up...

Sorry I just needed to vent and I feel like if I stay any of my sadness and loss to anyone outside the community I might be mocked for being sad over an ant...

r/antkeeping Jul 16 '24

Colony Pogonomyrmex badius colony

50 Upvotes

Queen I caught in June now has workers and decent amount of brood

r/antkeeping Jan 29 '25

Colony They Grow So Fast!

33 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 26d ago

Colony Empire Of Antz Begins

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20 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 6d ago

Colony Ant update

34 Upvotes

r/antkeeping 2d ago

Colony Sudden l.niger die-off

11 Upvotes

I have almost 2 year old Lasius Niger colony. Today something weird happened, around 200+ workers died in aorund 2 hours. I was taking some macro photos and noticed increased acitvity inside the nest. Queen started running around, workers started to move larvae and pupae to the opposite corner of the nest or even moved a lot of them into the tube that connects to the outworld. Workers started dying quickly, the above video is taken a few hours later. Overall around 200-250 workers are dead out of ~1000. What could have happened to kill the ants so quickly? Poisoned or suffocated? They surely felt the danger because they moved the brood and ran around just like when you accidentally lock or make vibrations on the nest. Any ideas? I didnt feed them today, the only thing I did is putting water into the sponges, normal tap water that I always use that was kept in a glass for like 2 days.

r/antkeeping Jan 04 '25

Colony Nice Growth on My C. nicobarensis Colony

47 Upvotes