Leaf Cutting Ant Forum

Hi all,

I'm new to the LCA topic with no experiance and pretty much no knowlege on it, but I have a real interest in the keeping of extoic/unusual animals and love seeing how their housing is created and the end products Really im just starting in the world of "not your average pet" and at the moment keep a crested gecko in a soon to be, planted vivarium, with intentions of expanding out to other species... at some point At the moment ants arent quite an option but im interested in what its all about and hope you dont mind me tagging along and having a nosey into what it is you do!

Welcome.. it's an extremely fascinating hobby

Hi and welcome again Ruairidh, meant to ask you what your going to keep in your planted vivarium? I've kept a couple of dart frog species and would highly recommend them. There very interesting and are diurnal so you see them loads during the day where tree frogs etc are nocturnal.
After leafcutter darts are the most enjoyable thing I've kept.
Jamie

*Looks up dart frogs*

deansie26 wrote:meant to ask you what your going to keep in your planted vivarium?

Will be housing a crested gecko in this vivarium, ive recently been researching pdfs and Id say they will be my next project , im hooked on the whole idea of creating a natural environment for something to live in, but i'll have to wait for the end of exams before I think about expanding

Ruairidh wrote:at the moment keep a crested gecko in a soon to be, planted vivarium

deansie26 wrote:meant to ask you what your going to keep in your planted vivarium?

Mmmmh? Can't put that one down to using your phone and mistyping, Jamie. We should put that down to it being Friday and the end of a hard week waiting for something to catch fire.

And a really warm welcome to you Ruairidh. What on earth does your name mean and where in Scotland are you. If its Gaelic then up north?

And a really warm welcome to you Ruairidh. What on earth does your name mean and where in Scotland are you. If its Gaelic then up north?

Ruairidh is Gaelic for Roddrick or Roddy and im currently based in Edinburgh but will be moving up north in a few months once exams are over. Where is it you're based?

Acromyrmexbob wrote:

Ruairidh wrote:at the moment keep a crested gecko in a soon to be, planted vivarium

deansie26 wrote:meant to ask you what your going to keep in your planted vivarium?

Mmmmh? Can't put that one down to using your phone and mistyping, Jamie. We should put that down to it being Friday and the end of a hard week waiting for something to catch fire.

And a really warm welcome to you Ruairidh. What on earth does your name mean and where in Scotland are you. If its Gaelic then up north?

Ha ha, I blame kids for frying my brain. I'm getting paranoid! Must check and re-check as I know eyes are on me!!

Ruairidh wrote:

And a really warm welcome to you Ruairidh. What on earth does your name mean and where in Scotland are you. If its Gaelic then up north?

Ruairidh is Gaelic for Roddrick or Roddy and im currently based in Edinburgh but will be moving up north in a few months once exams are over. Where is it you're based?

Based in Falkirk. Got over a hundred colonies of Leaf Cutters here. Atta and Acromyrmex.

Where the hell do you keep them!? xD