My ant colony was raided

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Probably that you need to feed her protein (dead insects, if none are available minced meat might work as well).
 

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No, some people do it but I deem the benefits of overheating the tube too high. The inside of a test tube often heats up much more than the surrounding (because the heat can't escape that easy from the tube) so you may end up cooking your queen (or drowning her due the tube flooded because of condestation on the glass surface).

Heating is best when they have a nest so you can put a cable on one side of the nest to get a gradient - if the ants find it too warm they can just move away from the heated side to colder parts of the nest. Unless you have a tropical species queens can found just fine at room temperature.
 
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