I have been experimenting with ants for the past few months. Started with what i thought were Argentine ants (Iridomyrmex humilis) but not 100% sure on the ID. IT took about 2 months of culturing but i finally got to the point were i had reproduction (nothing to the point where i could have been feeding out) but after a brief period of neglect they all jumped ship on me. I regularly add rotten bananas to all the FF eating frog tanks to hold the FF and I have found that my escaped origianl colony is not gone....just elsewhere, and very fond of rotting fruit and the fruit flies that collect there. All of the frogs enjoy the ants but they are a little too much for some of the thumbnails. (the ants are about 1/8" in length) At any given instance you can look at the grey frog-room floor and see these tiny black ants foraging the floor for stray FF. So I did some more research and found another species which is much more suitable for culture and the frogs LOVE them. They are commonly called Ghost ants (Tapinoma melanocephalum) and are very tiny (less than 1/16"). These ants have been doing much better under culture situation and seem to reproduce and "bud" much quicker than my last species attempted. These ants occur in southern Florida (actually native to tropical africa but are now considered pan-tropical, being found in as remote tropical locations as the Galapagos) and need warm temps and very high humidity which is not the best situation for escaped colonies "taking over" your houshold (especially if you live in temperate areas that have low relative humidity), although i think the risk is still there. A risk i am more than happy to take :lol: I find them extremely easy to feed and I have been gutloading them on egg, honey, spirulina, dendrocare, and some FF for aditional protien. The frogs feeding response to the movement of these ants is really impressive and tinc tribe frogs will not even look twice at FF's if the ants are in there running around. I am still debating if it is best to work with these ants in a "culture" set-up in which i have to remove culture vessles to feed, or a "refugia" set-up in which the ant colony is given access to foraging opportunities within the frogs enclosures. Very fun and very exciting stuff(for a big nerd). Have plans for large scale termite culture for the functionality of feeding the frogs as well as recycling cardboard....that is for next month....Ben