I posted this on another forum. There's nothing special about it, only what is between the pics.
Heres a pic of a pair of threeways I hatched.
They grew up, heres a pic of the male last year.
Hes the one on the left in the first pic. The
female, on the right, looks pretty much the same.
If you remember, last year the ants got the clutch and only one survived, its the one on the top.
The lesson is all the days between pictures and all the events that occur. There are good days, bad days, days I forget to do something. Days I am gone, days I am just to busy to do monitors.
This I believe occurs with everybody(at least I hope so) The history of what allowed this success is what is important. That is, what did I feed, what didn't I feed, etc. is all simple and what I have said a million times. The lessons are in the daily decisions and maintaining conditions, not exactly the conditions themselves.
They can use a wide range of temps, a wide range of humidity, a wide range of diet, a wide range of dirt/substrate. There is no and no need for a "ideal" or "perfect" any of these.
Again, the work is in maintaining any these conditions, day after day, year after year, generation after generation.
Many of you dwell on a few exact items of husbandry, when what is more important is infrastructure. That is, maintaining a supply of food, litebulbs, substrate, etc and a continous method of getting rid of the waste products. Without the infrastructure many of you do real well for days, months, maybe a year, then fall out. All it takes to fail is falling out for a short time. This is most important in keeping monitors and never ever spoken of. FR
