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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 11881" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>just a small update.</p><p>things are delayed a bit with me being off sick and now xmas.</p><p></p><p>however i have just put a Swedish sponge in one of the home hives (double brood).</p><p>i made up some 1:1 mix, which is a lot different from the 1.5:1 mix used with the cardboard strips. this 1:1 mix, once cooled down, ends up more like cake icing or finely crushed ice instead of gelatin. i made a bit of a mistake in that it really needs to be dried while its still hot. i left it overnight and i had to scrape/wipe all the excess off the strips. however the surface does end up being rather dry and the bees walked over them with no issues (i tried a bee on the 1:1 raw mix and it walked over it without issue). with the 1.5:1 carboard and Swedish sponge, the bees did not like walking on it at all. it seamed to be very hot on their feet at the start.</p><p></p><p>the other interesting thing is the Swedish sponge soaked up 119g of the 1.5:1 mix and with the 1:1 mix a whopping 210g. consider Randy Oliver talks about 50g a sponge. i hope that it translates into a longer treatment time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 11881, member: 30"] just a small update. things are delayed a bit with me being off sick and now xmas. however i have just put a Swedish sponge in one of the home hives (double brood). i made up some 1:1 mix, which is a lot different from the 1.5:1 mix used with the cardboard strips. this 1:1 mix, once cooled down, ends up more like cake icing or finely crushed ice instead of gelatin. i made a bit of a mistake in that it really needs to be dried while its still hot. i left it overnight and i had to scrape/wipe all the excess off the strips. however the surface does end up being rather dry and the bees walked over them with no issues (i tried a bee on the 1:1 raw mix and it walked over it without issue). with the 1.5:1 carboard and Swedish sponge, the bees did not like walking on it at all. it seamed to be very hot on their feet at the start. the other interesting thing is the Swedish sponge soaked up 119g of the 1.5:1 mix and with the 1:1 mix a whopping 210g. consider Randy Oliver talks about 50g a sponge. i hope that it translates into a longer treatment time. [/QUOTE]
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