Onetenna took a while to move. First, I connected her to the nest, and she did not budge. I gave her over a week to move into her nest, but she did not move in. Finally, I used a flashlight to move her by pointing the light into their old test tube. Then, like 20-30 minutes later, they moved! As soon as they had finished the move, I removed their old test tube and connected them to their new outworld and water test tube. Onetenna should not outgrow this nest for a long time, so I will not be adding more nests anytime soon.
Well, Scar Smile still did not move. They have to move quickly because the brumation season is very soon, but they have been very stubborn. I may have to manually move them by dumping them into their new test tube. That would make sure they would be in a better chamber to brumation. I will be brumating my ants in a temperature-controlled wine fridge set to 10C. Tropical ants do not brumate, while ants in temperate regions brumate in order to survive winter and if they do not brumate, they will either stress out or die.
