specimen24-6
Fourth Instar
I'm thinking about getting termites please share with me your experiences. Pictures of setups and and termites are welcome

Do you have a link?I am getting them locally from a biological supply. I might get pacific dampwood termite or subterranean termites(Reticulitermes sp.) I will get them from wards biological.
To be honest I'm not trying to keep them alive very hard. Haha. If I wanted to keep them alive for longer than a few days I'd give them a more suitable environment. I didn't know solitary workers could survive that long without the colony as support. HmmA worker can live for a few years a soldiers can't live with out the workers because workers feed the soldiers vea mouth to mouth. Vfox your probalaby doing something wrong with there captivity because iv done some digging in the ant farm forum and they successfully keep termites to the point of getting winged termites. Also they say that termites are very sensitive to chemicals so vfox you could be giving them wood with chemicals or tap water ,which has chemicals![]()
Ps: all you need is alot of workers and soldiers and the kind of termites you keeped need soil or plenty of moister but don't over water